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VIKING SUPERPOWERS TOUR – 2027

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ITINERARY

DAY 1: REYKYAVIK

Welcome to Iceland!

  • Arrive in your own time at Iceland’s International Airport – Keflavik (KEF) and make your way by car or coach to our hotel. Check in at 3 pm.
  • Explore Reykjavík at your own pace. Our hotel is centrally located, we’re within walking distance of museums, galleries, shops, and cafés. 
  • In the evening we gather to relax and get to know each other over dinner in the city.

 

DAY 2: REYKJAVIK TO BORGARNES

  • The burial place of Viking shapeshifter and poet Egil Skallagrimsson
  • Þingvellir the world’s first parliament
  • Reykholt, the home of Post-Viking cheiftain, Snorri Sturluson, writer of the great history of the Aesir and the Norse Kings
  • Deildartunguhver, Europes most powerful hot spring.
  • The hot pools at Krauma Geothermal Baths
  • The Borgarnes Settlement Center
  • Dinner and overnight at our Borgarnes hotel

 

 

DAY 3 BORGARNES TO STYKKISHOLMUR

Explore Snæfellsnes Peninsula, one of Iceland’s often overlooked gems, a hotbed of paranormal activity in old times.

  • Búðir and Búðahraun, – Huldrafolk (hidden folk) habitations
  • Lóndrangar – mythical location of an Elf Church)
  • Folkloric spots in Dritvik Djúpalónssandur
  • The famous ‘manhood’ lifting Steinatök stones.
  • Hólahólar  – famous for subterranean beings
  • Fróða og Fróðárheiði – famous for strange hauntings
  • Helgafell – the Holy Mountain
  • Beserkjahraun and Berserkjagrafir, sites of the wild berserker tales from the Eyrbyggja Saga
  • Overnight and Dinner at our hotel in Stykkishólmur

 

DAY 4 STYKKISHOLMUR TO HOLMAVIK

  • Eiríksstaðir – home of two of the most famous Vikings of all – Erik the Red and Leif Erikson
  • Búðardalur –  the original longhouse and its magnificent reconstruction
  • Djúpifjörður –  the location of the eerie events told in the Bergbúa þattr. This incredible story and Grettir’s Saga tell of encounters with thundering fiery craft and a tall superhuman, Hallmundr, self described as a ‘Mountain Elf’
  • Hólmavík – a picturesque fishing village home to the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft 
  • Hólmavík – Dinner and Overnight at the cozy Hótel Finna

 

 

DAY 5 – HOLMAVIK TO REYKJAVIK

  • Borg á Mýrum – birthplace of Egil Skallagrimssons , burial place of his father Skallagrim and of his grandfather Kveldulf aka “The Evening Wolf” – the Viking werewolf!
  • Lunch at Bjarteyjarsandur Farm
  • After an hours drive south to Reykjavik, we check in to our hotel at Centrehotels Plaza.
  • Hellisgerði – the Elf Dwellings of Hafnarfjörður.
  • Hafnarfjörður – Viking-themed Dinner at Fjörukráin Restaurant
  • Overnight at Centrehotels Plaza.

 

DAY 6 – A DAY IN REYKJAVIK

  • The Edda Building – the University of Iceland,(Háskoli Íslands) – Experience the World in Words exhibition, showcasing the ancient handwritten saga manuscripts
  • Meet with Ármann Jakobsson, Professor in Old Icelandic Literature, to discuss his book ‘The Troll inside You – Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North’ and then lunch with the Professor at Edda.
  • The National Museum – Examine a huge collection of wonderful Icelandic historical exhibits
  • The Settlement Exhibition – Learn about Reykjavik and Iceland’s founding.
  • Evening of Relaxation 
  • Dinner and Overnight at Centrehotels Plaza.

 

 

DAY 7 REYKJAVIK TO HVOLSVÖLLUR

  • Skálholt Cathedral – Visit what was an important early Christian centre anda secret school of wizardry
  • Geysir – Experience this area’s famous erupting geysirs and bubbling mud pools
  • Gullfoss – See the great roaring Golden Waterfall.
  • Stöng  – Encounter the awesome replica of the Viking farm  – also known as a location in Game of Thrones
  • Brautarholt Farm – A location famous for the description inNjal’s Saga tells of a great circular flying craft
  • Caves of Hella – Only recently discovered these man-made living spaces point to a large Irish / Gaelic presence before the arrival of Norsemen in 874 AD
  • Dinner and Overnight at Hotel Hvolsvöllur  – with an outdoor hot-tub!

 

DAY 8: SAGA LANDSCAPES OF SOUTHERN ICELAND

  • Þingskálar (Thingskalar) – Viking Age Local Parliament. Here the original grass covered layout can still be seen, along with one-thousand-year-old Chieftains ‘booths’ (including those of the hero Gunnar and his friend wise Njal)
  • Keldur á Rangárvöllum – Ancient Saga Farmstead
  • Gunnarssteinn (Gunnars Stone) where Gunnar and his two brothers fought off thirty enemies.
  • Oddi – Founded by the great Wizard Saemundar the Wise, this place was the childhood home of Snorri Sturluson
  • Meet Guðný Halla, Elf expert at Búland Farm & Peace Centre. 
  • Hvolbvöllur we stop at Gunnar’s Hólmi – famous for a special moment known to all Icelanders
  • Dinner and Overnight at Hotel Hvolsvöllur.

 

 

DAY 9: SAGA HOTSPOTS AND ICEY CAVES

Hlíðarendi – Gunnars Hillside Farm Hlidarendi – the place of Gunnar’s Last Great Battle

Gunnars Burial Mound – Hear the extraordinary saga account of a close encounter and Gunnars physical resurrection.

Experience the magnificence of Iceland’s dramatic and mythical landscapes – Meyjarhóll Mound, Berþórshvoll, the Seljalandsfoss / Gljúfrabúi waterfalls, the Viking film location Drangurinn í Drangshlíð, the world-famous Black Beach at Vík and the otherworldly ice caves of Mýrdalsjökull

Dinner at the Viking themed Valhalla Restaurant and exhibition centre

Overnight at Hotel Hvolsvöllur 

 

DAY 10:  DEPARTURE

After breakfast we travel back to to Keflavik Airport for those flying out, and those staying on. Here we farewell one another as friends who have shared this wonderful adventure together.