Salty Reykjanes tour for departing passengers. Price: 11.500 ISK.
The Salty Reykjanes departure tour begins 8:30.
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 Saltfish Museum 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 tour ends at Keflavik airport at 3:00 (15:00)
Itinerary.
After leaving the capital our first stop on the tour is at the breathtaking Lake Kleifarvatn and the colorful Hot Spring area of Seltún, Krýsuvík for about 20 minutes.
As we follow the dramatic 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 or a walk on the harbor.
After lunch we will look into a Shark shack and taste a fermented Shark and the Icelandic Brennivin, "Black Death" liquor. The spectacular Reykjanestoe is the southwestern most tip of Iceland and we will stop there 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 and get the feeling for the action of the tectonic plates. That action is the main reason for all the eruptions and the existence of Iceland.
The tour ends at the Keflavik airport at 15:00 (3:00)
Included: pickup from hotels, guided tour, admission to museum, drop off at airport.
Payment: pay at the bus with Creditcard, Icelandic krona IKR, Euro € or Dollar $.
