Ice Exploration Tour

About this experience

Do you want to experience breathtaking landscapes? On the Ice Exploration Tour, our guide will introduce you to some of Vatnajökull’s most stunning features. The constantly changing glacier creates beautiful formations such as crevasses, moulins, and seracs. If this sounds appealing, then the Ice Exploration Tour is perfect for you!. On the Ice Exploration tour, you will spend approximately 2 hours (4-6 km) hiking on Breiðamerkurjökull, an outlet glacier of Vatnajökull. During the tour, your guide will share their knowledge of how the glaciers form, how they are in constant change and how these changes affect the surrounding area. You will see numerous different natural attractions, from beautiful mountains to ashy ice and if you are lucky, some blue ice. On some days, we will prioritize walking further to cover a larger area of the glacier, while on other days, we will prioritize entering small moulins or crevasses. What we do on the tour depends on the conditions of the day as well as the group itself, but we promise to show you the best attractions available at each time and to make your day an unforgettable one. The tour is rated medium in terms of difficulty because you are required to walk 4-6 km on different types of terrain and in various types of weather conditions. To participate in this tour, you must be in good general health and able to walk 4-6 km. Most of our guests have never been on a glacier before so no previous glacier experience is needed. We provide everyone with crampons, helmets, and…

Meeting point

Ice Explorers meeting point
Jökulsarlon, 781, Iceland