Private Glacier Hike and South Coast Sightseeing

About this experience

Hiking on a glacier is what is making this tour special. This tour is the perfect mix sightseeing and adventure. For the Sightseeing part, you will explore the South Coast of Iceland. Homeland of hundreds of waterfalls, volcanoes and glaciers. And speaking of glaciers, this is where the adventure part of this tour will take place: You are going to hike on a glacier.

During this excursion, your guide will first gear you up with all appropriate gears, and after briefing you about safety and technics on the glacier, he will take you on ice for around an hour.

What's included

Itinerary

1. Tour stop

   Seljalandsfoss is among the most famous and most visited waterfalls in Iceland, and a must-see on the South Coast. 60m high, the unique feature of this waterfall is the cave located behind it. Thanks to this cave, you have the opportunity to walk behind and around the waterfall. This is a wonderful experience. Please note that in the wintertime, the path behind the waterfall can be closed for safety reasons, but the waterfall itself can still be visited. It will take us about 2 and a half hour, coffee break included, to get to this waterfall from Reykjavík

2. Tour stop

   The volcano of Eyjafjajökull, covered by a glacier, is located just a few kilometers away from the road and visible on a clear day. It is the volcano that erupted in 2010, and blew so much ash in the air that air traffic over Europe had to come to a complete stop.

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3. Tour stop

   Just like the one with visited before, Skógafoss is in the top 5 of the most famous and visited waterfalls in Iceland. Which is a very good rank considering we have over 10 thousand named waterfalls in the country and even more unnamed ones. It is also 60m high, but much more powerful than the previous one. With stairs located next to it, you can climb your way up to a viewing platform to see it from the top, or choose to see it from ground level and feel all its power! We will get there after around 30 minutes of driving

4. Tour stop

   Almost all the beaches in Iceland are made out of black sand, but when people talk about the black sand beach, as if there was only one in the country, this is the one they are talking about. Cliffs, sea stacks, basaltic organs, caves and more. All of it on one beach. It takes about 40 minutes to reach the Black Sand Beach from previous visit

5. Tour stop

   Now is time for the best part of the day: A glacier hike on Sólheimajökull. Your guide will gear you up with all the necessary equipment: Crampons, Harnesses, Helmets, and Ice Axes. Following that, he will tell you everything you need to know to walk safely on ice. What follows will be an experience of a lifetime, you will walk on ice that is thousands of years old. We will have to drive about 30 minutes from the last visit Reynisfjara to get to the glacier. The whole glacier hike usually takes about 3 hours but can be up to 4 hours

Know before you go

• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
• The glacier hike is designed to be accessible to most people. Although, one should be able to walk one hour on moderate terrain
• The glacier hike required to be outside, exposed to the elements for 3 hours more or less. It is customer's responsibility to dress according to the weather.
• People doing the glacier hike must be wearing hiking boots.
• The tour duration is 12 to 13 hours including driving times, visits, and the glacier hike.