From Reykjavik: Fire & Ice Grand Iceland Helicopter Tour
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Experience the extreme contrast Icelandic nature has to offer by flying across Iceland’s volcanic landscape to land on top of a glacier! See Þórisjökull Glacier, Glymur Waterfall, Þingvellir National Park, Hengill Geothermal Area and much more from above. Land on an old volcano, and land on a glacier.
What's included?
Professional, English-speaking pilot
Guided helicopter flight for 60-80 minutes
Landing on a glacier for 15 minutes
Landing on an old volcano for 15 minute
Flyover/land on the Þórisjökull glacier
Flyover the majestic Glymur waterfall
Flyover scenic Þingvellir National Park
Flyover/land in Hengill geothermal area
Hotel pick-up (please meet on location)
What to expect?
The journey to the glacier takes us over lava fields, craters, and colorful mountain ridges. Once the lave fields are behind us, we enter the highlands with all their colours and glaciers. We land on Langjökull at an exclusive location, only accessible by helicopter.
There you can take a moment to breathe in the fresh mountain air, experience the complete silence, enjoy the magnificent view, and even make snow angels.As we take to the skies to return back, you will see deep crevasses and steep ice falls that make an adventurous setting.
There are no special effects like in a movie. This totally surreal setting is all real. We peek in the crater of the majestic shield volcano Skjaldbreiður and fly over the tectonic rift separating America and Europe in the historical Thingvellir National Park. We fly over geothermal hot springs and the largest geothermal power plant in the world.
We will land in a remote area to witness, smell, and feel the geothermal energy with bubbling mud pits and steaming hot surfaces. Finally, our flight path concludes with a flight over Reykjavik to give us an aerial overview of the city.
Sights: Þórisjökull Glacier, Glymur Waterfall, Þingvellir National Park, Hengill Geothermal Area
After submitting the booking, we will inform you about the exact starting time for the tour. We will ask for additional information like the approx. weight of each passenger.
Please note that this tour is weather-dependent and if the weather forecast is not promising at the time of your booked tour, we always try to A) change the time on the same day (e.g. go in the afternoon instead of the morning), B) offer you to go on a different date (e.g. the day before or the day after), or C) give you a full refund
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Meeting point: Nordurflug Helcopter Tours, Reykjavik Domestic Airport, Nauthólsvegur
What to bring
We recommend that you wear good shoes, a warm jacket, a hat, and gloves. It does not get cold inside the helicopter (similar to sitting in a car) but it can get cold and windy on Icelandic mountain tops.