9 Day - Around Iceland, Highlands and Volcano Adventure

About this experience

A 3 day tour, which includes stops at at Vestmannaeyjar Island and puffin watching, Laki & Lakagígar volcano, Eldgjá Volcanic Canyon, Landmannalaugar, Icelandic Highlands. It includes 2 nights at Adventure Hótel Geirland and breakfast. Day 1 - In the morning of the first day of your tour, you'll get picked up from your accommodation in Reykjavík. The tour will then head to the southern part of Iceland. The first stop of the day is at Landeyjarhöfn harbour where you will embark on a ferry to Vestmannaeyjar Islands. After about a 30 min ferry ride to Vestmannaeyjar Island, we will go straight to the southernmost part of the main island, Stórhöfði Cape. It's an ideal location to get up close to the oldest inhabitants of the island, the Atlantic Puffins. Next up is Eldheimar Museum, a volcano museum of remembrance of the volcanic eruption of 1973, when the entire population had to be evacuated from the island to the mainland in the middle of the night. After the museum, you will have the opportunity to do a short hike up the volcano Mt. Eldfell or spend some time in the town, before heading back to the mainland in the afternoon. Once back to the mainland, you'll travel along the south coast of Iceland, getting some views of waterfalls, such as Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss, and the infamous volcano Mt. Eyjafjallajökull which erupted back in 2010, causing massive interruption of air traffic across Europe and North-America. We'll then make a stop at the scenic coastal village of Vík, where you will have some…