Overland & walking Adventure to Explore the Heart of the Highlands
Iceland is the only place where you walk “at the bottom“ of an Ocean.
While mass tourism has invaded the beautiful South Coast, rare are the tours that venture into the Highlands of Iceland (90% of the surface of this country) which remain largely impassable to most tourists .
IMPORTANT: We do not operate this trip before mid-July as some tracks may remain prohibited until July because impracticable or fragile. 4wd jeeps and trucks would have quickly damaged them seriously. The authorization to drive there depends on the amount of snowfall during the winter and whether the spring has been mild or cold.
In the first half of August we are at the peak of the season and we do not have the ability or desire to operate too many departures. Except for a departure in the second half of July, it is from mid-August to the end of September that we propose this trip. A climatic period sometimes harsher, but so splendid, with beautiful grazing lights on landscapes where the fires of autumn burst.
Shaped by the antagonism of fire and ice, the South Coast and Highlands offer landscapes like no other. Nature, here in delirium, combines harmoniously contradictory landscapes with an art of paradox. Green meadows, lava fields, pristine glaciers, black sand beaches, blue iceberg lagoons, basalt fortresses, crystalline waterfalls, powerful rivers, volcanoes pretending to sleep, flooded bogs, fumaroles in the shape of rainbows flood succeed and renew endlessly. While the ocean infront of so many wonders, is not left out and spreads its power and its immensity, launching its rolls and its millions of pelagic birds to conquer this land that was supposed to stay at the bottom of the abyss.
This great journey of exploration represents a zigzag “almost” full of active volcanic ridge. It takes place in the heart of the strangest and wildest landscapes of the volcanic highlands of Öræfi South, crossing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that emerges here in Iceland, between Mt Hekla volcano to the west and the western edge of the Vatnajökull ice cap to the east, crossing from one side of the caldera Torfajökull / Hrafntinnusker, along the northeast edge of Myrdalsjökull up Eldgjá then back along the jade waters of the mysterious lake Langisjór. On the South Coast, we stay in the countryside behind the tourist centers. Out of all the journey, only the trip to the glacial lagoon and the beaches and the cliffs of Vik will make us a part of the tourists for only a few hours.