Day Tours/Activities
Guided Golden Circle Tour
The guided Golden Circle tour takes you to three natural and historical attractions, Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall), the hot spring area, Geysir, and Thingvellir National Park.
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- Available all year
- Duration 8 hours
- Location Golden circle Iceland
- Difficulty
- Number of participants Min. 4
- Age limit No age limit
What you'll experience.
The guided Golden Circle tour takes you to three natural and historical attractions, Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall), the hot spring area, Geysir, and Thingvellir National Park.
Your guide will pick you up at your hotel in the morning. You’ll drive to the Geyser area where you will visit Strokkur, a geyser that erupts on average every 4 minutes. Nearby is the magnificent waterfall Gullfoss, „Golden Waterfall“. After a visit to Gullfoss and Faxi waterfall, you will make a stop at Friðheimar and have lunch in a greenhouse. Then you’ll visit another beautiful waterfall, rarely visited. We drive to Thingvellir National Park, which is famous for it´s historic- and geological reasons. This is where the first democracy in the world was established, in AD 930. Öxarárfoss is a waterfall at Thingvellir.
Thingvellir is characterized by tectonic rift valley and marks the rifting of the Eurasian and North American plates from each other. In 930 the Icelandic Parliament, the first democracy in the world, was established at Thingvellir. Thingvellir became a World Heritage Site in 2004. We walk to Öxarárfoss waterfall.
Included in final tour price.
Included
- Expert guide
- Lunch
- Transportation
What to bring.
- Warm, waterproof clothes
- Good shoes
- Camera
Tour operator
This tour is operated by our friends at travelling Iceland. They put an emphasis on environmental protection and nature conservation. They take a part of their income and give it towards environmental incentives.
Travelling Iceland's certifications:
17.900 ISK