Arrival tour with breakfast and Blue Lagoon. Price: 16.500 IKR.
The Salty Reykjanes tour begins 7:30 at the Keflavik airport and your first stop is at a nearby Hotel where you can enjoy a delicious breakfast for about 40 minutes.
From there we head on to the magnificent Reykjanes peninsula with its rugged coastline, moss covered lava fields, volcanoes and history.
The Reykjanes peninsula offers scenery as spectacular as anywhere in Iceland. A brief drive from Reykjavik brings you to dramatic Lake Kleifarvatn with its bubbling hot springs and colorful solfataras of Seltun. You will cross dramatic lava flows along the Krýsuvík Coast going to the south shore fishing village of Grindavík– of Blue lagoon fame and the Salted Cod exhibition of Iceland.
After lunch and a 40 minute stop, we will continue further west to the Reykjanesviti Light House, migratory birding cliffs, and a walk across Icelands Bridge Between 2 Continents traversing the Mid Atlantic Ridge. The only Viking ship in Iceland, Íslendingur in Keflavík, will welcome you aboard before we hold on to the last stop on the tour, the unique Blue Lagoon spa. At the Blue lagoon you can decide how long you want to stay in the bath and other facility or go directly to Reykjavik by the one of the scheduled buses.
The tour begins at the airport terminal at 07:30, the breakfast is at a nearby Hotel.
The first stop on the tour is at the Lake Kleifarvatn and the hot spring area of Seltún, Krýsuvík for about 20 minutes.
As we follow the thrilling lava coverd south shore to west our next stop will be at the Salted Cod Exhibition of Iceland in the fishing village Grindavik at 11:30. We go around the working harbor and learn about Icelanders life at sea. We will stop for about 1 hour and 30 minutes for a visit to the Museum and a lunch.
After lunch we will look into a Shark shack and taste a fermented Shark and the Icelandic Brennivin, "Black Death" liquor. We will stop for 20 minutes at the Lighthouse and the birding cliffs at Reykjanestoe.
Our next stop is the Bridge between 2 Continents where you can walk from Europe to America in just few steps and get the feeling for the action of the tectonic plates. That action is the main reason for the existence of Iceland.
The only Viking ship in Iceland, Íslendingur is kept at Viking world, a Viking exhibition in the town of Keflavik. Íslendingur sailed to America in the year 2000 to celebrate the 1000 year anniversary since Leifur Eiriksson discovered America. Viking world is also home of the Smithsonian exhibition "The North Atlantic Viking Saga" and we will stop there for 40 minutes.
On our way to the Blue lagoon we will take a look into a Lava tube that was created during the last Lava flow in 1236. The tour ends at the Blue lagoon at 04:00 PM (16:00)
Note: Meet guide at coffee kiosk Kaffitar at the Terminal, (turn to left as you leave custom service), guide will hold sign with the name SaltyTours. The admission ticket to the Blue lagoon is sold separately as we arrive there. Most visitors are enthusiast to enjoy the bath at the Blue lagoon but some people just wants to take a look around.
Admission ticket costs 4900 IKR.
For further information or to order the tour send email to: tgk@saltytours.is or call Thorstein, T: 354 820 5750.
Included: pickup at airport, breakfast, guided tour, admissoin to museums.
Payment: pay at the bus with Creditcard, Icelandic krona IKR, Euro € or Dollar $.
