17 - Landmannalaugar

Colorful mountains and soft lava sand

The tour will start at the farm Fellsmuli, below Mt. Hekla, and takes us to Landmannalaugar, a valley in the Icelandic highlands that is best known for its colorful rhyolite mountains, extensive lava fields and the natural hot spring that gave the valley its name. We will ride over highlands alongside Hekla until we reach Landmannahellir, where the Icelandic farmers kept their sheep in a cave during the round up before they build a better shed for them. From there we continue the next day in Landmannalaugar. The highlight of the tour is a bath in the warm river at Landmannalaugar. From there, we head west towards Dyngjuskarð, a mountain pass with exceptional nature and the lake Hrauneyjarlón, before we arrive to Hrauneyjar where we are staying over the night. The tour ends at the farm Fellsmúli.

Departures 2019: June 21, July 1 and August 1.