Description
Summary
Description
Explore the Icelandic Highlands by super jeep on this small-group tour from Reykjavik with a professional geologist, with waterfalls, a volcanic crater lake, and a hike in Landmannalaugar.
The tour starts with pickup in Reykjavik, where you meet your guide and the rest of the group. With a maximum of 6 people, you have time to take in the sights and ask your guide questions, without a tight schedule.
Your guide is a professional geologist, so you see the landscape from a different perspective. You travel in a modified super jeep along the famous highland roads and cross big rivers on the way.
The first stop is Hjalparfoss Waterfall, which marks the beginning of the highlands and lies in the shadow of Hekla Volcano. Here, the Fossa and Thjorsa Rivers fall at an angle to each other into the same pool, surrounded by basalt columns. Just downstream, you can see Burfell, Iceland's second-largest hydroelectric power station.
A few miles upstream, you reach Haifoss Waterfall, where the Fossa River drops about 400 feet (122 meters) into a canyon, making it one of the highest waterfalls in Iceland. Granni Waterfall flows right next to it, and the colorful layers of the canyon show how huge eruptions shaped the highlands.
Next, you visit Ljotipollur Lake, whose name means "ugly puddle." It's an explosion crater that formed in an eruption a few hundred years ago, with red lava rock, green moss, and blue water.
The last stop is Landmannalaugar, one of the most famous hiking areas in the Icelandic Highlands. You go on a 2- to 3-hour hike among colorful mountains formed by geothermal hot springs and mineral deposits in the lava rock, and your guide explains the geology along the way.
After the hike, you can relax in one of the hot springs before driving back to Reykjavik in the evening.
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