Arrive in Reykjavik, met and transferred to your accommodation. Few capitals offer the northern lights from their own streets on a clear winter night.
Explore the capital, then a whale-watching trip from the harbour. Settle in, soak at the Blue Lagoon and watch for aurora after dark.
Transfer to Icelandic Highlands. Hike the rhyolite peaks and soak in the hot springs of Landmannalaugar. Explore Kerlingarfjöll's geothermal valleys and coloured mountains.
Explore Kerlingarfjöll's geothermal valleys and coloured mountains. Cross the lava deserts and glacial rivers of the interior. The Highlands are the island's most otherworldly landscape — and the hardest-won, open for only a few summer weeks.
Cross the lava deserts and glacial rivers of the interior.
Transfer to South Coast. Visit Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss, the black beach at Reynisfjara, and hunt aurora after dark. Walk behind a waterfall and hike a glacier tongue, with aurora at night.
Walk behind a waterfall and hike a glacier tongue, with aurora at night. The waterfalls and black sands of the coast, ending with an aurora watch.
The waterfalls and black sands of the coast, ending with an aurora watch. No stretch packs more iconic Iceland into a short drive than the South Coast.
A final morning in South Coast — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The short summer window when the F-roads open and the Highlands are reachable.
Early summer, as the roads begin to open after the snow.
A sleek waterfront design hotel by the harbour — Reykjavik's most polished address.
A boutique manor and horse farm beneath the South Coast volcanoes — intimate and characterful.
A 1930s art-deco landmark on the central square, full of period character.
A striking new mountain lodge in the geothermal Highlands, open in the summer season.
A renowned aurora hotel with an observatory and wake-up call for the northern lights.
A large, modern, well-located hotel — a dependable city base.
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