Snowshoeing

The Traveling Viking is a family-run tour operator offering tours with local tour guides comfortable cars, highly qualified drivers and guides, humor, good spirit, and knowledge of North Iceland. We are based in Akureyri, North Iceland.

We specialize in smaller groups and tailor-made tours, however, no group is too big for The Traveling Viking. The Traveling Viking was founded in the year 2008 and has ever since focused on personal service, slow travel experience along with developing winter tourism in and from Akureyri North Iceland. We have an excellent variety of tour options all year round. Like Lake Mývatn, Waterfall Dettifoss, Northern light tours, and meet local people. We also have winter activities such as snowshoeing and ice fishing, snowmobiling, kayaking, etc.

We do focus on sustainability in our tours and by following our sustainability policy, we make sure that our impact is as little as possible on the environment and that local communities benefit from our visit.

Wide Open is all about hiking, nature and exploring new horizons. We are based in Akureyri, and all our tours start from this cosy little arctic town surrounded by mountains with dazzling views over the fjord. We aim to stay off the beaten track and away from the crowds.

During the winter, when the snow is deep and the fjord is white, we put on our snowshoes and enter the frozen landscapes of the north. The snowshoes allow us to go outdoors without sinking to deep in the powder and they give us the necessary grip on patches of icy snow. If you like hiking, you will love snowshoeing.

The Snowshoe Delight is our daily scheduled snowshoe tour. But you can also book us for a private snowshoe hike, and we also have kids snowshoes for a Family Snowshoe Tour."

Highland Base was conceived as the staging ground for epic adventures deep in the highlands of central Iceland. A year-round oasis of warmth and comfort, this remote outpost accommodates all levels of hospitality. With a campground, hostel huts, dormitory beds, upscale rooms, luxury suites, private lodges, thermal baths, and a cozy restaurant, Highland Base is a first-of-its-kind highland resort.

Located at the edge of the majestic Kerlingarfjöll mountain range, the destination is a thrillseeker’s paradise, offering a vast array of guided and unguided adventures. While the experiences are seasonal, the excitement is timeless. In summer, hiking and mountain biking bring you face-to-face with the mountainscape's geothermal valleys and breathtaking panoramas. In winter, cross-country skiing, backcountry skiing, and snowmobiling set you free to explore the untamed wilderness. And when you return to Highland Base from a day of adventuring, you'll always find a warm and welcoming refuge—a place to relax, reflect, and recharge.

Imagine Iceland Travel operates a great range of tours to discover North Iceland all year round. Specializing in small group tours and private tours, we have gained a reputation for providing high quality and personal service. Our small group tours are designed to make the most of your time in the North with expert guides and great value. Our friendly local guides are highly qualified and experienced and love their surroundings and what they do. We offer a range of vehicles including minibusses, 4x4s, super jeeps, and luxury 4x4s. For private tours, we can design tailor-made experiences using our expert knowledge of the area to provide a personal experience based around your interests. Our specialist guides have a great range of skills and knowledge base. The company is local to North Iceland and is an authentic family run company who care about customers and deliver an outstanding level of customer care.

Please get in touch and our friendly team will help with your enquiry.

Some examples of tours and interests we cover include:

Icelandic Nature 

Lake Myvatn and Godafoss waterfall

Combo Tour: Lake Myvatn, Dettifoss and Godafoss Waterfalls

Arctic coastline and culture

Diamond Circle

Northern Lights 

Tailor Made Private Tours

Photography tours and Northern Lights photography.

Popular interests for tours include folk tales, Norse mythology, Nature, photography, Northern lights, Northern Lights photography, geothermal baths, geology, volcanoes, glaciers, Icelandic Culture, local farms and museums, local food, flora, seasonal tours for winter, summer, spring and fall, fishing and much more!

Geo Travel is a carbon neutral, family run tour operator and a travel agency in North Iceland. Small groups and personal service is our speciality.

We offer a variety of pre-organised day tours, tailor made private tours and all inclusive tour packages and brakes.

 All our guides are locals to the area and making adventures is our passion. 

Among the options of activities we offer are 

- Super Jeep Tours of North Iceland highlights and hidden gem's 

- Cultural sightseeing experiences

- Photography tours Hiking and trekking tours

- Birdwatching and biology

- Dog sledding by Lake Mývatn 

- Cross country skiing 

- Hiking and trekking tours

- Multi day Highlands expeditions 

-Snow mobile tours - www.myvatnsnowmobile.is

Alkemia is a local travel agency, a tour operator and Destination Management Company (DMC), authorized by the Icelandic Ministry of Tourism, offering a liability insurance and a bankruptcy insurance to ensure you any possible refund. Iceland is a part of the European Economic Area, therefore ensuring high standards of security and insurance to our travellers. Building a travel with us is a guarantee of security and quality with the benefit to be in direct contact with the people who will travel with you on site.

We organize trips and placements always with in the goal of helping you meet this fascinating land, with our knowledge and our way of travelling and enjoying Iceland.

Please contact for tours and booking information.

Helgafell Retreat Center is our home and place of welcome in northern Iceland. We offer practices and welcome groups accompanied by a teacher. We are open to any practice respecting kindness, self-presence and openness to why we live our human experience. 

We propose room facilities, massage room, sauna….for a minimum 3 nights. Please to contact us.

We strive to create a place of exchange and inspiration for our lives.

“Written by Úlfar, son of the family”

When it comes down to choose a travel operator/company or just how to spend your day in Iceland, then there are endless possibilities, allot of good companies and allot of not so good companies that are just in it for the money! So why chose Iceland Activities?

Our company ”Iceland Activities” is my family (my parents, my sister, grandma, girlfriend, brother in law and our closest friends and family). We did not create this company to become rich! We truly love what we do, we created this company to be able to do what we love every day and even on our days off, we are doing the same tours on our own. 

We base all of our tours on our family experience, traveling together as a family since 1983 has built up a crazy amount of experience and knowledge of secret locations all over the South part of Iceland, some locations that only my family knows about still today. Creating tours that are well suitable to all level of fitness from families with young children to super adventures families or individuals. 

On our journey from 1983 we have earned a well-spoken reputation as an outdoor family and known for seeking out the sports that were not as common, my father was one of the first ones to modify his jeeps and we are proud to be one of the first mountain bikers of Iceland and the only local MTB guides on the Hengill volcanic area, guides who grew up mountain biking and exploring the area on tracks made by the Icelandic sheep.

Today we offer a good selection of tours, ranging from two hours up to multi-day trips, and overnight camping tours focusing mostly on the off the beaten path experience. We can tailor made everything about the tour and set up the tour as you like, we could keep it more raw or have it quite luxurious and high class but still remote. We could keep the days more active or more easy going. It really depends on your choose, our aim is to enjoy the day with you.

Some of the things we offer:

Super jeep tours ● Mountain bike tours ● Hike tours ● Lava caving ● Surfing ● Team building ● food tasting ● Snowshoeing ● Sightseeing ● food tasting and culture tours ● zip line ● Skiing ● rock climbing ● camping ● Ice hockey ● Curling

Staff and guides: family members and close friends and we are all Icelandic :) 

Locations: Iceland Activities family headquarters are located in Hveragerði, the Icelandic capital of hot springs. Hveragerði is 45 km east of the capital Reykjavík (30 minutes drive on highway 1). 

Contact us and we will customize a tour for you, your friends or family. We specialize in having small groups and we never mix into big groups, so your experience will be better. When bigger groups book with us 6 persons or more then the tours are automatically private.