6 Day Around Iceland Winter Minibus Tour

Join us on an exceptional, 6 day expedition around Iceland’s most popular destinations. Starting in the capital, Reykjavík and visit Iceland’s most popular and beautiful sites, including a few lesser known treasures of Icelandic nature.

Day 1 – Golden Circle Your tour will start with the very popular Golden circle. You’ll visit all the must see location of this popular route: Thingvellir National Park, Geysir geothermal area and Gullfoss waterfall. Your hotel is located in the Golden Circle.

Day 2 – South Coast & Glacier Hike In your next destination, you’ll visit the waterfalls Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss, the unmissable Reynisfjara black sand beach with its basalt columns. Then, add glacier hiking to your booking. Included: Glacier Hiking Tour. Spend the night in the South.

Day 3 – South Coast & Ice Caves You’ll visit a remarkable blue ice cave with an experienced glacier guide. Next you’ll see the popular Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon and the Diamond beach. Included: Ice Cave Tour. Spend the night in the South.

Day 4 – Eastfjords and night in Egilsstadir. Your destination for the day is the remarkable Eastfjords. You’ll pass through Iceland’s largest forest, Hallormsstadaskógur and see lake Lagarfljót, home of a terrifying water monster. You’ll spend the night in a town in the Eastfjords. Optional Extra: Horseback Riding Tour.

Day 5 – Lake Mývatn – Traveling to the North You’ll visit lake Mývatn with its unique nature baths, which are centered around a large lagoon. Explore lava fields of Dimmuborgir and Námaskard. Optional extra: VÖK Baths Entrance. Spend the night in Akureyri.

Day 6 – North Iceland After visiting the beautiful North and its capital Akureyri you’ll continue with Hauganes, a tiny village where you will go Whale Watching on an beautiful wooden boat. Included: Whale Watching Tour. At the end of your journey you’ll arrive in Reykjavík in the evening.

Driver guide, pick-up and drop-off from in Reykjavik capital area
Small group experience
Wi-Fi and Icelandic music on board
Accommodation:
5 nights accommodation with a private bathroom
Meals:
5 Breakfasts
Included activities and equipment:
Whale watching
Ice cave tour
3 hours glacier Hike with a certified guide
Glacier equipment: Helmet, Harness, Crampons, and Ice Axe
Northern lights sightseeing, if the weather allows
Taxes

The first attraction of this 6-day Iceland tour is the well-known Golden Circle, one of Icelands most popular attraction.

First of all you will visit Þingvellir national park where the two tectonic plates, the North American and the Eurasian plate, are moving away from each other. Few places in the world offer a better and clearer view of this massive geographic activity. The biggest natural lake in Iceland is also located at Thingvellir National Park and hosts a great variety of fish and bird life. Thingvellir is also an important place for Icelandic national history. At Thingvellir Icelanders founded their parliament in 930 AD where the chieftains had their annual meeting every summer.

From Þingvellir you will drive for a short time to the next attraction which is Geysir geothermal area. There you can see Strokkur hot spring gushing out boiling water every 5 minutes or so.

Next up is Gullfoss waterfall (The Golden Falls), one of Iceland’s most iconic waterfalls that has a drop of 32 meters over two tocky tiers. On a sunny day, you can see the glacier Langjökull in the distance and enjoy a rainbow in the mist of the waterfall.

At the end of the day you will visit Seljalandsfoss waterfall, famous for the pathway all around the waterfall.

After a good day of sightseeing you will spend the night in the south of Iceland. Throughout this tour you will mostly be staying at country hotels that provide good opportunities of witnessing the northern lights if the weather allows.