This is a partner-operated tour.
Minibus Tour
Price 27900 ISK per person
Highlights
– Goðafoss Waterfall
– Lake Myvatn
– Psuedo Craters
– Dimmuborgir, unusual lava formation
– Hverir, bubbling sulphur mud pits
– Volcano’s and a lot of them
Available from mid-May to mid-September
– Duration 7 hours.
– Pickup time 20 minutes before tour start.
– This tour scheduled for cruise ship passengers only.
Attention!
– Let us know if car seat for child/children is needed
– Infants are not allowed to sit on laps while driving
– If there is any disability that we need to know of.
– Not wheelchair accessible
– When you book shore excursion for cruise ship passengers, we take full responsibility if the ship cancels port or changes schedule within 24-hours due to weather conditions.
– Otherwise our general 24-hours cancellation policy is valid.
– We reschedule the tour or refund if rescheduling is not doable.
– If the cruise ship is delayed then we adjust our departure time and we make sure that we will be back to cruise port before cruise ship closes for boarding.
– If you book our scheduled tours designed for hotel pickup, then we don’t take any responsibility regarding refunds in case of cruise ship cancelling within 24-hours or delays arrival or if the tour is not finished before cruise ship departure.
Included
– Free WiFi on board
– Guide
– Parking and entrance fees
Note
– During our tour we take break for refreshments at café or restaurant
– Refreshments are not incl. in tour price.
– We might change the order of stops on our tour due to weather and traffic.
We recommend bringing!
– Warm clothing (wind/waterproof coat and trousers).
– Good trainers or hiking boots.
– Water bottle.
– And of course good mood.
We cannot offer discount on partner operated tours!
We only accept payment with MasterCard & Visa
Tour Description!
The tour departs from Akureyri. The first stop gives you the best views over Akureyri and Eyjafjörður. After a short photo stop we drive on to Goðafoss waterfall. One of Iceland´s most beautiful and uniquely shaped waterfalls. Here we tell you why the falls are important in Icelandic history and give you enough time to explore the area close up.
Then we head on to Myvatn. We stop at the pseudo craters for a short while before continuing on to Dimmuborgir.
Dimmuborgir is a unique and very interesting area. Visitors are given time to walk among the unusual lava sculptures, pillars and caves.
Our guides know everything about this area and will be happy to walk with you and explain how the area was created 2,500 years ago, as well as tell you a few folktales about the local trolls.
After a lunch break overlooking Dimmuborgir, we visit the former nature baths located on the tectonic plates between Europe and America. The last volcanic eruption in Myvatn was in 1984 from the volcano Krafla and lava from this eruption is visible everywhere you look.
Hverir is an area of bubbling sulphur mud pits and steaming vents, watch your step as you explore this area! After driving back to Akureyri
Goðafoss
Goðafoss Waterfall is one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Iceland. Goðafoss is about 12 meters high and about 30 meters wide.
It’s name means “Waterfall of the Gods” as it is believed that idols of the old pagan Gods were thrown into the waterfall when Iceland embraced Christianity in 1000 AD.
Goðafoss nickname is “Beauty” as Dettifoss being the “Beast”.
Skútustaðagígar Pseudo Craters
Skútustaðagígar where formed about 2300 years ago during the eruption of Lúdentaborgir and Þrengslaborgir.
Skútustaðagígar are not caused by actual explosion of volcanos, they are however by product of their bubbling lava flowing over mushy wetlands.
This phenomenon happens when extreme hot lava flows over cool and wet grounds. This traps steam underneath the lava causing it to build pressure and when the pressure becomes too great it causes explosion that creates depressions in the ground which forms this beautiful wonder.
Dimmuborgir
Dimmuborgir (or Dark Cities), is the most fascinating rock formations in Iceland and were formed when Lúdentsborgir and Þrengslaborgir erupted about 2300 years ago. Dimmuborgir area is characterized by large hollow cell- or chamber-like structures formed around bubbles of vapor. Several of the chambers and pillar bases are big enough to house humans.
It is said that Dimmuborgir connect earth with the infernal regions. It is also believed that Dimmuborgir is the place where the 13 Icelandic Yule Lads (Santa Clauses) live.
Grjótagjá
Grjótagjá Lava Cave is a unique landscape of caves and is believed to be the home of an outlaw in the 18th century.
Grjótagjá was used as a local hot spring until the 1970s. Despite being too warm to bathe in after the Krafla eruptions. It’s deep blue color and concealed setting makes it very popular, and more so after being featured in the popular tv series “Game of Thrones”.
Hverir / Námaskarð
Námaskarð is uniquely colorful geothermal area with enormously powerful Sulphuric hot springs with geothermal activity. The hot springs in Námaskarð area are not like most normal hot springs, they’re sulphurous mud springs called solfataras and steam springs called fumaroles, where the water and mud are boiling on the surface. This geothermal area is defined as a high temperature geothermal area, where the temperature in the ground is extremely high.
In the old days Námaskarð was mining area for sulphate in the Sulphur mines for export.
At the arrival back to Akureyri is an option to go into the Akureyri Forest Lagoon where you can enjoy a relaxing soak in the geothermal waters.
