Description
Summary
Description
Travel Iceland’s most famous coastline at your own pace on this private South Coast tour from Reykjavik to Vik. This 9-hour private minibus tour suits families, photographers, and small groups who want waterfalls, a glacier tongue, and black sand beaches without sharing the day with strangers.
Booking privately gives your group one guide and one vehicle for the whole day. The price covers hotel pickup and drop-off in Reykjavik, an English-speaking guide, free Wi-Fi on board, all parking and entrance fees, and a minibus for up to 19 passengers, so the only thing left to plan for is lunch.
Your guide collects you from your Reykjavik accommodation in the morning and follows the Ring Road east. The Eyjafjallajokull and Myrdalsjokull ice caps sit on your left and the North Atlantic on your right, with stops coming roughly every 40 minutes.
The first stop of the day is Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, which drops about 200 feet (60 meters) over an old sea cliff. Expect to get wet here, as a footpath runs the whole way behind the curtain of water. Your guide checks the path on the morning of departure, since it closes in icy conditions.
Skogafoss Waterfall is the heavier of the pair, 82 feet (25 meters) across with a similar drop. Local legend says that a chest of gold from the settler Thrasi was left here behind the spray. A staircase up the east bank climbs to a platform above the lip, and your guide will show you where the rainbows form on bright days.
Solheimajokull Glacier, an outlet tongue of Myrdalsjokull, is also part of the South Coast itinerary. The ice has pulled back close to 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) in the past decade alone due to global warming. The walk from the parking lot to the viewing platform of the glacier takes about 20 minutes over uneven moraine, and you can skip it if your group would rather not.
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach comes next. A wall of hexagonal basalt columns rises at the back of it, and the Reynisdrangar Sea Stacks stand offshore. The waves here are genuinely dangerous, so stay well back from the water and follow your guide, who knows exactly where the safe line sits.
The day ends in Vik, a scenic village of about 300 people roughly 115 miles (186 kilometers) from Reykjavik. Reyniskirkja, the white church on the hill, dates to 1929 and serves as the evacuation point should Katla erupt beneath the ice cap above.
Because the minibus is yours, there is no fixed turnaround and no stranger to wait for. Linger at the beach, drop a stop, or add one your guide suggests when the light turns. You return to your Reykjavik accommodation in the evening, around nine hours after pickup.
Make the most of Iceland’s waterfalls, glaciers, and black sand beaches on this private South Coast tour to Vik, built entirely around your group. Check availability now by choosing a date.
