Introducing the perfect place for Northern Lights Hunts in Iceland!
If discovering Iceland individually is on your bucket list and you plan to travel around Iceland by car you need to book your accommodation early! A wide range of accommodation is available starting with hostels, guesthouses and farm hotels to the more pricey and upmarket luxury hotels. But if you are looking for something different than the typical self drive car & hotel  arrangement you might want to have a look at our quirky self drive tour! Imagine staying at a Viking hotel, a fisherman´s hut, a wilderness museum or even at the Klettar Tower with perfect views to Mt. Hekla, the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull, Langjökull and Tindfjallajökull. 

We follow the Icelandic tradition in giving the horses a good winter break after a season of riding tours during summer. By end of September/October we take the horse shoes off and release them into their huge winter field of approx. 30 hectares around the farm. There they will roam „free“ for about 3 months before we stable them again for riding. Icelandic Horses are highly social animals that prefer to live in a group. It also suits their strong grazing instinct very well, 

​When you run a small farm going on long holidays isn´t always an easy option since you always need to ask somebody to take care of the livestock. So we usually just take a weekend off to discover and explore new areas in Iceland, check out new accommodation and activities. Although it may only be 3 or 4 days it is just a great way to get out of the farm wellies, see something new, spoil yourself a bit or as they say in German: Have a „Tapetenwechsel“ which translates roughly into „chance of scenery“. 

Newsflash: “Tourist leaving Iceland heavily traumatized….”

Going to the swimming pool in Iceland is a true Icelandic National sport, we go there to exercise, to relax and to chat with friends and strangers in the hot tub. Icelanders start going to the pool from a very early age. There are baby swimming classes, swimming lessons in school are mandatory and even the smallest village or community has a pool where people meet. The British have their pub, the French their café, we have our local pools. With rising numbers in tourism and rising entrance fees in popular touristic “hot springs” like the Blue Lagoon, more and more tourists are looking with eager eyes into the option of visiting the public local pools. They are clean, lovely and cheap, most 

The beautiful Icelandic goat, also commonly known as the “settlement goat” is an ancient domestic breed believed to be of Norwegian origin. Most likely it arrived in Iceland with the first settlers from the Scandinavian countries over 1100 years ago. ​The Icelandic goat was on the verge of extinction during the late 19th century, but its population recovered recently mainly thanks to a few dedicated goat lovers such as Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir, a devoted goat farmer in West Iceland.​

​It has been rather cold in Iceland! Usually the November is the time when Icelanders start to get ready for winter. We get a glimpse of the winter cold and some snow but usually we get some milder days in between as well. Sort of to give everybody a warning: Winter is approaching... get ready! But not this year. By middle of November we were hit with a Siberian type of winter spell – no forewarnings – temperatures dropped accompanied with lots of snow. Even Reykjavík was hit with an unusual early snowy and winter spell – right in time for the lightning of the Christmas decorations downtown. 

​When I started my horsemanship in 1980, Skagafjörður was the mecca of horse breeding in Iceland.  If you were looking for a competition or breeding horse, Skagafjörður was the place to go to. Farms like Kolkuós, Vatnsleysa, Miðsitja, Varmilækur, Flugumýri, Svaðastaðir, Skörðugil and many more were renowned for great horses.  Sveinn Guðmundsson from Sauðárkrókur was probably one of the pioneers of breeding talented horses and when thinking back, he might have been the most famous breeder at that time in Iceland. 
 

I hope you like our new logos! Each represent different tour categories we are offering in Iceland: Exploring Iceland on foot, by bus and on horseback. 
 
On horseback:
We will be offering absolutely unique riding tours for 2017 such as an 11- days Sheep & Horse Round Up combination tour in South and North Iceland,  Riding & Knitting and a special Family Adventure Riding Tour. We will be visiting the famous historic breeding farms of the North and Tölt on Ice! We also have a range of wonderful