2 Day Northern Lights Winter Break in Iceland’s Westfjords with Flights from Reykjavik

On the morning of day one, you will take a thirty-five-minute flight from Reykjavík to the Westfjords. Your guides will meet you at the airport in a super jeep that is more than capable of handling the snowy mountain roads of this region in winter.

You will first head to Látrabjarg, a cliff fourteen-kilometres long and up to 440 metres tall at its highest. In summer, millions of birds nest here, but in winter, the number is much smaller as the migratory species have long gone. Even so, its scale and the views from it are awe-inspiring.

Látrabjarg has been the site of many shipwrecks. One particularly notable incident occurred when a British trawler capsized, and the sailors were stranded far below. They would have no doubt died if not for the local farmers; used to scaling down the cliffs on ropes to collect bird eggs, they descended to the bottom and conducted one of Iceland’s most memorable rescues, hauling all the sailors to safety.

After seeing Látrabjarg, you will head to Rauðasandur beach. While most beaches in Iceland, such as those along the South Coast, are home to black sands, on Rauðasandur they are golden, pink and red, making it a very unusual site in Iceland.

You will be spending a night in a hotel in the settlement of Patreksfjörður, where you will have a two-course meal and a chance to bathe in a hot tub. Before you reach it, however, you will head to another beach in hope of seeing a seal colony.

Don’t forget to hunt for the Northern Lights come nightfall.