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 Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Tour the peninsula's glacier, lava and coast, with aurora at Kirkjufell. Explore Snæfellsjökull National Park and the fishing villages.
Explore Snæfellsjökull National Park and the fishing villages. Coast and lava by day, an aurora watch at Kirkjufell by night. Snæfellsnes lets you see every kind of Icelandic landscape without leaving one peninsula.
Transfer to Westfjords. Tour the fjords to Dynjandi and the Látrabjarg bird cliffs. Explore the remote coast and watch for arctic foxes.
Explore the remote coast and watch for arctic foxes. The Westfjords are where Iceland's crowds vanish entirely — its wildest, emptiest corner.
Transfer to North Iceland. Explore the Mývatn geothermal region and Goðafoss, with aurora at night. Soak in the Mývatn Nature Baths and tour the craters and lava.
Soak in the Mývatn Nature Baths and tour the craters and lava. Whale-watch from Húsavík and chase aurora over the north. The north offers Mývatn's volcanic wonders and Húsavík's whales with a fraction of the south's visitors.
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.
A final morning in South Coast — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Summer — open roads, puffins on the cliffs and the midnight sun. The time to come.
Early autumn before the roads grow difficult.
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.
An iconic black-church hotel on the Snæfellsnes coast, romantic and remote.
A comfortable hotel on the remote Westfjords coast, a base for the fjords and cliffs.
A contemporary lakeside hotel at Mývatn, well placed for the geothermal sights.
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