ハイランド ツアー

Askjaを訪れるツアーです。Askjaの火山、カルデラ湖は圧巻で訪れる価値があります。 ここへはツアーでなければ、到達することは容易ではないのでレンタカー等で各自で行くよりもツアーで行くことを強く勧めます。 アークレイリからは往復で500kmほど走ります。また舗装されていない箇所が多く（特にAskja周辺）、車酔いしやすい人には大変な試練でしょう。また気候も厳しく（6月にはまだ雪が残っているたり、降ることも）、十分な体力が必要です。 ガイドは大変親切かつ、運転が上手であったため楽しく過ごすことができました。 天気予報が芳しくなかったため、十分考慮した計画を練って行動してくれて大変よかったです。

スーパージープ大きくてびっくりしました。日本では絶対にお目にかかれないサイズで車好きの人にもお勧めです。そうでない人にも快適な乗り心地なのでお勧めです。ソゥルスモルクもいい眺めでした。

ハイランドでのハイキングで有名なソゥルスモルクですが、意外と近くてスーパージープなので乗り心地も良く、アドベンチャーな旅の割りに快適な1日でした。乗り物酔いしやすいのですが、砂利道になったことさえ気づかないくらいスムーズで、さすがスーパージープ！な感じです。12人の巨大なジープ（というかトラック）にこの日の乗客は9人。ジープの乗り降りにもガイドさんが気を使ってくれました。10月末の参加だったのでソゥルスモルクには殆ど人がおらず静かに自然を満喫できました。生い茂る木と、遠くに見える2つの氷河、そして幾筋にも流れる白っぽい川が本当に綺麗でした。そのほかにも氷河を近くで見える場所まで行ったり、滝を4つ見たりと充実の一日でした！

今年8月に、70代の夫婦で8日間ツアーに参加しました。 基本コースに火山ツアーを選択・追加して、最終日はフリーにしました。 内容はどれもすばらしく、特に氷河の上を歩けたのは なかなか無い機会なので、とても面白かったです。 どの場所も感動しました。 私たちは、年齢の割には足腰が丈夫な方ですし、 海外旅行も慣れている方なのですが、 今回のツアーでは、歩く速度は相当速いと感じました。 ガイドさんに、もう少しゆっくりしてくれないかと頼みましたが、 他の参加者は若い方々だったので、配慮はしてくれたものの なかなかペースは落としてもらえず、必死についていくことに。 ツアーが終わってから思い返すと、ある程度の速度を保たないと、 結局、見所の全てを回ることは無理だったと思うので、 がんばって速いペースについていったのは正解でした。 高齢者の方で、このツアーに参加しようと思う人は、 速いペースで、長時間歩く練習をしておく必要があるかと思いますし、 そもそも体力に自信がない人は、Guide to Icelandに事前に相談し、 アドバイスをもらった方が良いと思います。

What an incredible experience! Brilliantly curated but with the right amount of freedom to choose what you wanted as you made your way. From the start the communication with Natan, ou Guide to Icelan representative, was both prompt and thoughtful. The itinerary was detailed enough to make suggestions as to what to see and expansive enough to accomodate different tastes. Rental car pickup was right on time and the 4x4 vehicle was clean and worked well on all road surfaces, even through the highlands! The camping card was easy to use as well as the fuel discount card. And the free map was a nice surprise. All of the information that we got from Guide to Iceland was helpful as we made out way through the 6 day tour. The horseback riding was exceptional and a real highlight. Driving through the backcountry in the highlands was amazing...we saw glaciers, innumerable waterfalls, beautiful lakes and rivers, spent time by the sea...for a nature lover, this was truly an awe-inspiring trip and incredibly well organized. Really the trip of a lifetime and made so much easier with the tremendous support of Guide to Iceland.

I just returned from Iceland and feel homesick! I'd love to return next year with my husband. This package tour included all the best local sites in the southern region and tour guides all were knowledgeable, competent, kind and patient. I highly recommend this tour.

Summer 2018: -We would absolutely recommend! Guide to Iceland made it very easy to plan this trip and once I was there everything was set up and ready to go. The hotels were clean and centrally located to everything. The bus pick up was easy, every driver knew my name and called me and got me to where I needed to be on time. Each planned excursion was exciting and well planned out by the tour guides. -The top highlights of my solo trip include: 1. Snowmobiling on a glacier with Mountaineers of Iceland - "a must do" 2. Hiking on a glacier 3. Going inside a volcano (note: there is about a forty-five walk through a lava field just to get to the volcano from the parking lot, which is great when it is nice outside). 4. Hiking the rim of another volcano to see the colorful oozing looking rocks 5. The waterfalls 6. The boiling geysers 7. The tiny, quiet city of Reykjavík 8. ATV tour (I booked that at my hotel, it was a lot of fun.) 9. My fun tour guides 10. All the people from around the world I met traveling through Iceland 11. The locals who make it fun and like talking to tourists (I just sat in the park and spoke with a few on a nice day). 12. The cool black volcanic beaches 13. The glacier lagoon (Golden Circle Tour) 14. Blue lagoon (wow). It is not cheap, but for good reason. You get what you pay for and it like nothing you have ever seen before on this planet (note: I got a crazy sunburn from the lagoon, so be careful in summer). 15. Hiking in the national parks and seeing the divide between Europe and North America. 16. Seeing where Game of Thrones and J.B. film the show/video. 17. Great pick up and drop off right from my hotel, or just down the street. 18. If you do have leftover time in the city, take a walk to a geothermal city pool. It is a good way to spend a few hours, and it is not expensive. 19. Eight days was the perfect amount of time to see the highlights of Iceland. --Suggestion/observations: 1. Save money on food by going to the "Bonus" grocery store. Also, take a short walk out of the highly touristy areas, the farther you walk, the lower the prices. The complimentary hotel breakfasts are great, so eat up each morning. 2. Reykjavík won't take more than one day to explore so plan an excursion for each day. Most excursions end around 6 pm so you will have plenty of time to see the city. 3. Reykjavík is flat and very walkable. You won't need to hire a cab (or drive a rental) to get around. There are no highways to walk across in the country and being a pedestrian is the way to safely go. 4. Great water resistant shoes are highly recommended for every excursion. You don't need winter jackets or snow pants in the summer. Just a warm sweater and a warm rain jacket will suffice. 5. Alcohol is expensive, so don't plan to spend too much time at the bar. 6. It is fun to go with a group of friends, but you can also safely do this trip solo without any problem. You meet nice people, of many different ages, from around the world each day and the tour guides love talking with everyone.

The Guide to Iceland team was great and very responsive. Hotel Alda was centrally located and had great breakfast. Bus pickups were at a central zone not at hotel. There was a great deal of confusion in finding right bus as there were many people waiting for different tours and many of the buses did not have signs saying where they were going. Also bus drivers were not always helpful. Tours themselves were of variable quality. Our favorites were the two-day south coast tour (mainly because of our Guide) and snowmobile/ice tunnel tour. Food quality in Reykjavik was surprisingly good (especially for fish lovers) but pricey.

Superbe journée, fabuleux paysages d'Askja... nous avons eu la chance d'avoir une journée ensoleillée, malgré une tempête de sable qui a modifié le programme. Super jeep très confortable, conducteur accompagnateur très sympathique... Une très belle journée à ne pas manquer lors de son voyage en Islande.

We had a great experience in this tour with our driver and tourist guide Fin. The scene of Landmannalaugar is completely different comparing to the South Coast. It is like the surface of another planet. Some of the places can only be reached with super jeep and professional guide. Our car was broken on half way, but this didn't affect our tour at all. Fin is very professional and he found us other cars to take us to the waterfall. When we came back, the company sent us another super jeep to continue the tour. When we hiked through a creek, Fin built a bridge with the stones and even my parents enjoyed the half hour hiking a lot!