Private South Coast Tour and Viking Story Night with Icelandic Tasting

Your driver-guide picks you up at your accommodation anywhere in the Capital Area in the early afternoon, and you head east along the South Coast.

The afternoon light on Seljalandsfoss is some of the finest you will see on the entire South Coast. The waterfall drops 60 metres from the cliff above, and a path leads all the way behind the falling curtain of water – an immersive experience that very few waterfalls anywhere in the world can match. Waterproof clothing is strongly recommended. You will get wet, and it will be worth it.

Hidden inside a narrow gorge just a short walk from Seljalandsfoss, Gljúfrabúi is a waterfall most South Coast visitors never find. Access requires wading into the canyon through shallow water, where a cascade pours into a cool, enclosed stone chamber. The sense of discovery here is genuine – this is one of Iceland’s best-kept secrets, right next to one of its most famous sights.

Skógafoss commands the landscape. Standing 60 metres high and 25 metres wide, it generates a permanent mist that catches and scatters the afternoon light across the coastal plain. A staircase alongside the falls leads to a viewing platform at the top – the view from up there, stretching across the South Iceland plain toward the sea, is one of the finest on the entire route.

The afternoon is the finest time to visit Sólheimajökull. As the light drops lower in the sky, it catches the surface of the glacier in a way photographs struggle to record. A short walk from the car park brings you to the glacier's edge: ancient ice, deep silence and a scale that quietly adjusts your sense of the world.

The route passes Reynisfjara – Iceland’s most iconic black sand beach – as the tour continues toward Dyrhólaey. Your guide will point out the Reynisdrangar sea stacks rising from the Atlantic surf and the dark rock columns lining the shore. A full stop at Reynisfjara is available on the standard South Coast tour for those who wish to explore the beach up close.

The final coastal stop of the day: a dramatic headland rising above the South Iceland plain with sweeping panoramic views in both directions along the black sand shore. The natural sea arch at the tip of the promontory frames the open Atlantic below, and as the evening approaches, the light on the coastline from this height is extraordinary. A fittingly cinematic close to the South Coast leg before the tour turns inland toward the Viking farm.

On the historic land of Njál's Saga, one of the greatest stories in Icelandic literature, the working farm of Efri-Úlfsstaðir hosts the Viking Story Night every evening. You are welcomed into the stable to meet the Icelandic horses, then seated at a long wooden table in a candlelit barn as a local storyteller shares the sagas alongside tales of elves, trolls and a thousand years of life on this land. A tasting of traditional Icelandic food and drink accompanies the evening. This is not a performance. It is a gathering, quiet, personal and unlike anything else on the South Coast.

The drive home passes through the quiet South Iceland night. We drop you off where we picked you up, anywhere in the Capital Area.