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Dates 2025
June: 5 - 8 FULLY BOOKED June: 12 - 15 June: 26 - 29 Type: Multi day tour with spare horses Operated by: Exploring Iceland Duration: 4 days / 3 nights/ 4 riding days Level of expertise required: Experienced riders in good physical shape Area: Reykjavík Capital Area Accommodation: Hotel Kríunes, located at a tranquil place in the heart of the horse communities in the Captial area. Possible to go kayaking, fishing or biking in the midnight sun! Meals: Breakfast, lunch Min: 2 guests Max: 4 guests. Guide: English speaking. Other languages upon request. Group: International Maximum Weight: 95 kg 2025 price per person: Price p.p.in double/twin room at Hotel Kriunes ISK 292.000.- Single supplement: ISK 63.800.- Please contact us for bookings or book below: [email protected] |
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Great riding trails - unexpected scenery!
Tölt with us during the day through an exciting landscape made up of pseudocaters, glittering lakes and salmon rivers, with high mountain tops towering over us. Explore secluded black lava trails only accessible on horseback and let your mind wander over endless green moss covered fields of breathtaking landscape. Riding from place to place this is a proper riding tour where you will get to explore the beauty of the incredible remote landscape in Reykjavík´s backyard. Accommodation is at Hotel Kríunes featuring stunning mountain and lake views in the outskirt of Reykjavik area. Close to the horse communities. Your riding & relaxing holiday. If you want a more budget accommodation choose this riding tour without hotel and book your accommodation in Reykjavík yourself. |
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Day by day itinerary
Day 1: Álftanes Peninsula – Heiðmörk Nature Reserve
Pick up at your accommodation in the Reykjavík capital area at 10 am. Please be ready in your riding clothes in the reception at pick up time. We take you to the beautiful Álftanes peninsula, only a short drive from Reykjavík downtown. After an introduction into the safety issues, tack and gaits of the Icelandic horse we set off for a lovely gentle ride on good tölting tracks along the shoreline (and beach if tide allows) with a magnificient views of Snæfellsnesjökull, Mt. Esja, the Reykjavík skyline and striking Bessastaðir, the residence of the Icelandic president. Wonderful birdlife and an amazing scenery accompany us for this first ride. Afterwards we enjoy a light lunch at a local café with views of grazing horses. After lunch we take a short drive to the stable area of Hafnafjörður´s riding club Sörli for a ride through narrow tracks through lava and birch forests! Beautiful and again complely different mountain views take us via the Nature Reserve Heiðmörk to Riding club Sprettur, the stable area of Kópavogur town where we leave our horses and drive you to your accommdation in Reykjavík. Dinner and evening indiviudally. Riding distance approx. 4-5 hours.
Day 2: Heiðmörk Nature Park – Lake Rauðavatn - Landsmót grounds – Leirvogur Beach - Mosfellsbær
Pick up at your accommodation at 10 am. Today´s ride will take us exploring the backyards of Reykjavík. We will start by riding some more through the breathtaking Heiðmörk Nature Reserve, passing the Reykjavík stables of Fákur Riding club and the grounds for the famous Landsmót competition. We continue via Lake Rauðavatn and ride along the shore of Leirvogur beach towards Mosfellsbær underneath mighty Mt. Esja. During today we will serve you a luxury picnic lunch! Leaving the horses at Vonarholt farm we enjoy some coffee and cakes Icelandic style before we take you back to your accommodation. Dinner individually. Riding distance: approx. 4-5 hours.
Day 3: Around Mt. Mosfell on Saga trails!
Pick up at your accommodation in the capital area at 10 am. Today we ride around Mt. Mosfell in the charming Mosfellsdalur valley. We are literally travelling on Saga Trails as we ride over the meadows where the famous medieval Viking Warrior Egill Skallgrímsson once live and buried his gold! While Mt. Esja towers over us we we tölt through the beautiful area where Icelandic Nobel writer Halldór Laxnes grew up and found his inspiration for his famous novels. we enjoy some coffee and cakes Icelandic style before we take you back to your accommodation. Dinner individually.
Day 4: Vonarholt – Lake Hafravatn and Elliðavatn – Pseudocraters Rauðhólar - Reykjavík
Pick up at your accommodation in the capital area at 10 am for your last ride with us. Riding along the shores of lakes Hafravatn and strikingly beautiful Elliðavatn we ride through the spectacular Rauðhólar area. The 5.200 years old remnants of a cluster of firy red Pseudocraters make a wonderful backdrop for our last tölt through Reykjavík´s gorgeous backyard! Here our ride ends at the stables but we are happy to transfer you to your accommodation within the Reykjavík capital area or the BSÍ busterminal to catch the flybus to Keflavík airport.
Exploring Iceland reserves the right to alter routes, itineraries or timetables should the necessity arise. The estimated duration of tours as indicated by km or timing can change according to road or weather conditions.
Included:
Please note: Dinner is not included and only the riding tour is guided. Guide is not staying at the hotel.
Pick up at your accommodation in the Reykjavík capital area at 10 am. Please be ready in your riding clothes in the reception at pick up time. We take you to the beautiful Álftanes peninsula, only a short drive from Reykjavík downtown. After an introduction into the safety issues, tack and gaits of the Icelandic horse we set off for a lovely gentle ride on good tölting tracks along the shoreline (and beach if tide allows) with a magnificient views of Snæfellsnesjökull, Mt. Esja, the Reykjavík skyline and striking Bessastaðir, the residence of the Icelandic president. Wonderful birdlife and an amazing scenery accompany us for this first ride. Afterwards we enjoy a light lunch at a local café with views of grazing horses. After lunch we take a short drive to the stable area of Hafnafjörður´s riding club Sörli for a ride through narrow tracks through lava and birch forests! Beautiful and again complely different mountain views take us via the Nature Reserve Heiðmörk to Riding club Sprettur, the stable area of Kópavogur town where we leave our horses and drive you to your accommdation in Reykjavík. Dinner and evening indiviudally. Riding distance approx. 4-5 hours.
Day 2: Heiðmörk Nature Park – Lake Rauðavatn - Landsmót grounds – Leirvogur Beach - Mosfellsbær
Pick up at your accommodation at 10 am. Today´s ride will take us exploring the backyards of Reykjavík. We will start by riding some more through the breathtaking Heiðmörk Nature Reserve, passing the Reykjavík stables of Fákur Riding club and the grounds for the famous Landsmót competition. We continue via Lake Rauðavatn and ride along the shore of Leirvogur beach towards Mosfellsbær underneath mighty Mt. Esja. During today we will serve you a luxury picnic lunch! Leaving the horses at Vonarholt farm we enjoy some coffee and cakes Icelandic style before we take you back to your accommodation. Dinner individually. Riding distance: approx. 4-5 hours.
Day 3: Around Mt. Mosfell on Saga trails!
Pick up at your accommodation in the capital area at 10 am. Today we ride around Mt. Mosfell in the charming Mosfellsdalur valley. We are literally travelling on Saga Trails as we ride over the meadows where the famous medieval Viking Warrior Egill Skallgrímsson once live and buried his gold! While Mt. Esja towers over us we we tölt through the beautiful area where Icelandic Nobel writer Halldór Laxnes grew up and found his inspiration for his famous novels. we enjoy some coffee and cakes Icelandic style before we take you back to your accommodation. Dinner individually.
Day 4: Vonarholt – Lake Hafravatn and Elliðavatn – Pseudocraters Rauðhólar - Reykjavík
Pick up at your accommodation in the capital area at 10 am for your last ride with us. Riding along the shores of lakes Hafravatn and strikingly beautiful Elliðavatn we ride through the spectacular Rauðhólar area. The 5.200 years old remnants of a cluster of firy red Pseudocraters make a wonderful backdrop for our last tölt through Reykjavík´s gorgeous backyard! Here our ride ends at the stables but we are happy to transfer you to your accommodation within the Reykjavík capital area or the BSÍ busterminal to catch the flybus to Keflavík airport.
Exploring Iceland reserves the right to alter routes, itineraries or timetables should the necessity arise. The estimated duration of tours as indicated by km or timing can change according to road or weather conditions.
Included:
- Private transfers with horses and humans during the ride within the Reykjavík capital area
- 3x nights in double/twin or single rooms with private facilities at Hotel Kríunes
- 3x breakfast
- 4x lunch during the tour
- 4x riding days according to program,
- English speaking guide. Other languages upon request.
Please note: Dinner is not included and only the riding tour is guided. Guide is not staying at the hotel.
Hotel Kriunes
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Overlooking Lake Ellidavatn, this hotel offers free parking, free Wi-Fi access and an in-house restaurant. All rooms have private bathrooms and flat-screen TVs. Central Reykjavik is 8.1 mi away.
A work desk and wardrobe are featured in all rooms at Hotel Kriunes. Most rooms include a seating area. Some feature tea/coffee facilities and lake views. Relaxation options include a sauna and hot tub. Guests can unwind on the furnished terrace or in the fireplace lounge. Boat, kayak and bicycle rentals are available on site. Breakfast is served each morning at Hotel Kriunes. The in-house restaurant offers home-made dishes based in local produce. |
Steinunn GuðbjörnsdóttirTour Operator
Guide / Driver / photographer Steinunn or Steina bought her first horse at the age of 16 and has been smitten by the „horse bug“ ever since. By now she owns 14 horses and some of her younger horses come from her own breeding lines.. Steina decided to use the COVID time to go to the Icelandic guiding school so now she is a certificate driver/guide. She likes horses with a character, with good tölt and good temperament. Her horses are usually the easy ones. She has 3 grown up children and Lóa is her youngest and only one in the family who is riding with her. |
Margrét Lóa BjörnsdóttirHorse trainer Guide / Driver Instagram photographer
Lóa is Steinunn’s daughter. She started riding when she was 5 years old and has been riding ever since. She bought her own horse when she was only 11 years old, a 5 year old Palomino mare, Klassik, which is now her breeding mare. She is the competi- tion rider in the team but also loves to go on horseriding trips which she has been doing since the age of 10. |
Ari SigurðssonTour operator / guide / Driver
Ari started riding at a young age with his father. Horse riding is his favourite thing to do after work and he is the main guy to come to for a coffee in his riding club. He has 2 grown up children (no grand children yet) but they are not riding with him so one can say that Steina and Lóa are his “horse-family”. His favorite horses are those who are cooperative to run after the loose herd. |
