Volcano and Lava Day tour
Available on Fridays in the wintertime.
Duration: Pick-up from 8:30 – 16:30.
Price: 12.500 ISK for adults / 6.000 ISK for children 12 and younger.
The tour begins with pick up from hotels in Reykjavik, meeting point is BSI bus station Reykjavik.
The tour begins with pick up from hotels in Reykjavik, meeting point is BSI bus station Reykjavik.
The Salty Reykjanes tour begins with pickup from hotels at 8:30.
The Reykjanes peninsula offers scenery as spectacular as anywhere in Iceland. A brief drive from Reykjavik brings you to dramatic Lake Kleifarvatn with its bubbling hot springs and colorful solfataras hot spring of Seltún, Krýsuvík. You will cross dramatic lava flows along the Krýsuvík Coast going to the south shore fishing village of Grindavík– of Blue lagoon fame and the Salted Cod Museum of Iceland.
After lunch and a 40 minutes stop, we will visit a Shark curing shack and enjoy the aroma and taste of Shark and Icelandic Brennivin schnapps. We continue further west to the Reykjanesviti Light House, migratory birding cliffs, have a walk across Iceland’s Bridge between two Continents traversing the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
We will stop at Iceglass, the only glassblowing workshop in Iceland where Lárus and Gulla, the artists will show us how they make glass art creation. Next stop is the Viking-world, the home of Íslendingur the Viking ship that sailed to America in the year 2000 to celebrate the anniversary of land finding of Leifur Eiríksson found in the year 1000.
The last stop on the tour, the unique Blue Lagoon spa. Bathing in Blue lagoons warm and healing geothermal seawater is an energizing experience.
At the Blue lagoon you can decide how long you want to stay in the bath and other facility or go directly to Reykjavik by the schedule bus.
Itinerary
The first stop on the tour is at the breathtaking Lake Kleifarvatn and colorful hot spring area of Seltún, Krýsuvík for about 20 minutes.
As we follow the thrilling lava covered south shore to west our next stop will be at the Salted Cod exhibition of Iceland in the fishing village Grindavik at 11:30. We go around the working harbor and learn about Icelanders life at sea. We will stop for about 1 hour and 30 minutes for a visit to the Museum and a lunch or a walk on the harbor
After lunch we will take look at a Shark shack and taste a fermented Shark and the Icelandic Brennivin, “Black Death” liquor. We will stop for 20 minutes at the Lighthouse and the birding cliffs at Reykjanestoe.
Our next stop is the Bridge between 2 Continents where you can walk from Europe to America and get the feeling for the action of the tectonic plates. That action is mainly the reason for all the eruptions and the existence of Iceland.
At the only Glassblowing workshop in Iceland Iceglass Lárus and Gulla, a mother and son will show us how the glass is prepared and how they use the Icelandic nature, like lava from Mt. Hekla and silica from the Blue lagoon into their art creation
On our way to the Blue lagoon we will take a look into a Lava tube that was created in last Lava flow in 1236. The tour ends at the Blue lagoon at 4:00 PM (16:00)
Note: The admission ticket to the Blue lagoon is sold separately as we arrive there. Most visitors are enthusiast to dive into that amazing geothermal seawater at the Blue lagoon but some people just wants to take a look around and enjoy the view. There are schedule buses that leave about every hour and you can choose from, the bus takes you close to your hotel.Admission ticket to the Blue Lagoon costs 4500 ISK.
Payment: At the bus with credit card, Icelandic krona, Euro or US dollars.
For more information email Thorsteinn (tgk@saltytours.is)
or call +354 820 5750
