Description
Summary
Description
See Thorsmork Valley and some of the best-known glaciers in Iceland on this private super jeep tour. It suits travelers who want to see the views without hiking, from the comfort of a super jeep built for rough roads.
The tour begins in Hvolsvollur Town in South Iceland, where your private guide picks you up in a super jeep designed to cross rivers and rugged terrain into the Southern Highlands.
Your first stop is Gigjokull Glacier, an outlet glacier of Eyjafjallajokull Glacier, which covers the volcano that erupted in 2010. You can still see the aftermath of the eruption in the craters and the empty black sand plains it left behind.
Next, you drive into Thorsmork Valley, the "Valley of Thor," surrounded by Eyjafjallajokull Glacier and Myrdalsjokull Glacier. Warm air meeting cold glacial winds can form a thick mist over the valley, but the surrounding mountains shelter it from the worst of the Icelandic weather.
This climate shapes the scenery of Thorsmork Valley: glacial rivers cut through the black desert landscape, and green vegetation contrasts with the icy white mountaintops on the horizon.
You stop for lunch in the area at your own expense and visit the Basar area before you drive on toward Eyjafjallajokull Volcano.
You then drive up Eyjafjoll Mountain for views of the South Coast, and afterward your guide takes you back to Hvolsvollur Town.
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