Duration
6-7 Hours


Price
88.800ISK


Pick up
Flexible
Intro: 
Often overlooked wonderfull Reykjanes Peninsula. Immense lava fields, volcanoes and very high geothermal activity, this is what awaits you just 45 minutes away from capital!

Highlights of this tour:

  • Kleifarvatn lake
  • Seltun Geothermal Area
  • Hafnarberg Cliffs
  • Brimketill Lava Rock Pool
  • Gunnuhver Hot Springs 
  • Reykjanesviti lighthouse
  • Bridge Between Continents

Optional extras:

  • Blue Lagoon

*Extra fees apply.

 

Included in this tour.

  • Pick up and Drop Off from place of your stay
  • Private transportation & fuel
  • English speaking guide
  • Entrance fees to the parks and waterfalls
  • Coffee/Tea/Bottled water
  • Icelandic chocolate
Short Itinerary:
  • Kleifarvatn lake

View from several view points of the lake is gorgeous, on the clear day water is mirror-like. The story says that  a monster in the shape of a worm and size of a medium sized whale lives in the lake.

  • Seltun Geothermal Area

Seltún has many mudpots and fumaroles, and minerals deposited from geothermal solutions provide colorful sediments. 

  • Hafnarberg Cliffs

Hafnaberg is a long line of sheer sea lava cliffs south of the old fishing hamlet of Hafnir. Hafnaberg is very popular among hikers and bird watchers as various marine birds nest at the cliffs.

  • Brimketill Lava Rock Pool

Brimketill is a small, naturally carved pool, by marine erosion, at the lava shore edge west of the town of Grindavík. The folklore relates that the pond was regularly occupied by a giantess named Oddný.

  • Gunnuhver Hot Springs

The mud pools and steam, vents in south-west Reykjanes. Steaming of the ground at Reykjanes increased markedly as a consequence of a pressure drawdown in the geothermal reservoir upon the start of production from the reservoir in 2006.

  • Reykjanesviti lighthouse

The lightsignal height is 69 meters above sealevel but the actual height of the lighthouse is 26 metres.

  • Bridge Between Continents

The lava-scarred Reykjanes peninsula lies on one of the world's major plate boundaries, the Mid Atlantic Ridge. According to the continental drift theory the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates are continuously drifting apart with great forces under the gaping rifts.

Extra Information.
  • This tour is private, meaning that it won't be anybody else but you and your driver-guide.
  • Tour duration of this tour is 6-7h starting from pick up at 9AM* at the place of your stay.
  • The time spend driving is around 4 hours.
  • We will have a lunch stop in one of the towns along the Reykjanes peninsula.
  • Bathroom breaks are frequent.

*If you wish to start your tour later you can add this request when booking the tour.

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