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 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.
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 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.
Coast and lava by day, an aurora watch at Kirkjufell by night.
A final morning in Snæfellsnes Peninsula — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Aurora season — northern lights possible from the city and on evening tours.
Midnight sun, whale-watching at its peak and long bright days.
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 renowned aurora hotel with an observatory and wake-up call for the northern lights.
A contemporary lakeside hotel at Mývatn, well placed for the geothermal sights.
An iconic black-church hotel on the Snæfellsnes coast, romantic and remote.
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