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Silfra Diving Tour: Glide Through Clear Glacier Water in Thingvellir National Park
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134 Ratings
Silfra meeting point
Experience the weightless thrill of gliding through clear glacier water on a challenging 4-hour diving tour in Thingvellir National Park. Limited to 3 participants, book now!
Experience the weightless thrill of gliding through clear glacier water on a challenging 4-hour diving tour in Thingvellir National Park. Limited to 3 participants, book now!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Silfra meeting point - Dive into the clear water in Silfra fissure, one of the world’s top rated diving locations. Diving between 2 continents is a very unique experience and on many bucket lists. You have to be a certified diver to participate in this activity and have a dry-suit experience (10 dives within the last 2 years, in a dry-suit, or…
- Silfra meeting point - Dive into the clear water in Silfra fissure, one of the world’s top rated diving locations. Diving between 2 continents is a very unique experience and on many bucket lists. You have to be a certified diver to participate in this activity and have a dry-suit experience (10 dives within the last 2 years, in a dry-suit, or dry-suit certified). Afterwards, you will have hot chocolate and biscuits to warm yourself up.
What's Included
- Small group experience
- Hot chocolate and cookies
- Specialized dive equipment provided
- Guided dive in Silfra with PADI certified Divemaster
- Small group experience
- Hot chocolate and cookies
- Specialized dive equipment provided
- Guided dive in Silfra with PADI certified Divemaster
What's Not Included
- Pick up service from Reykjavik
- Food and drinks
- Please note that the National park charges a small parking fee (Private Car - 500 ISK)
- Pick up service from Reykjavik
- Food and drinks
- Please note that the National park charges a small parking fee (Private Car - 500 ISK)
Additional Information
Embark on a 4-hour diving journey into clear glacier waters originating from Thingvellir National Park, and experience the sensation of weightlessness. Your certified dive instructor will guide you at a comfortable pace allowed by the gentle current. Immense underwater visibility, only bounded by water density, is a unique feature of this place. Park…
Embark on a 4-hour diving journey into clear glacier waters originating from Thingvellir National Park, and experience the sensation of weightlessness. Your certified dive instructor will guide you at a comfortable pace allowed by the gentle current. Immense underwater visibility, only bounded by water density, is a unique feature of this place. Park rules mandate a maximum diving depth of 18 meters. Acknowledged as a complex dive, the expedition’s group size is intentionally kept small, with no more than three participants. You have the liberty to select from one of the three scheduled departure times at the time of your booking.
- Minimum age: 18 years old
- Please note that the National park charges a small parking fee
- Winter departures: If the temperature falls below -0°C there is a possibility that the dive instructor will change the tour into just one dive due to safety reasons
- This is a challenging dive where you need to be capable of carrying heavy equipment up to 400m
- Since you are wearing a snorkeling/dive mask to see underwater, there can be nothing in the way of the seal to keep them from filling up with water. You cannot wear glasses underneath the mask. You will have to go without them, wear contact lenses, or bring your own goggles with prescription
- Please note that PADI open water license or compatible is required to be able to participate in this tour. As all dives are performed in a dry suit it is require to have a dry-suit certification or at least 10 logged drysuit dives to be able to join this tour. Divers must supply their size of suit upon booking. It is recommended that your most recent dive was within the last 2 years before diving Silfra, as this dive is rated as a challenging dive
- It is recommended to wear warm undergarments (fleece/wool), warm woolen socks
- It is recommended to bring a change of clothing. The change of clothing is a precaution since no dry suit can be 100% guaranteed to be dry unless it is made especially for you
- A maximum of 3 people per booking
Location
Silfra meeting point
Vallarvegur
The meeting point is Silfra car park in Thingvellir National Park. To meet your guide: Walk 400m back along the road until you reach a smaller car park with all the snorkel and dive vans, and look for your guide. Please meet your guide 15 MINUTES before your tour is due to begin.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.6
(134 Ratings)
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C2855ufmariaa
Sep 27, 2024
Ahhhmazing experience! - We Loved It!!!
Parking and Meeting Location: They send you instructions on how to do this. Pretty easy to follow.
Staff: We checked in with one of the staff members and was instructed where to stand/hang out. They’re very busy so be patient. Roll call, waiver signing, etc.
Getting suited up: Wearing thermals and wool socks will greatly improve your experience especially if you get cold easily. I struggled with this a bit. I don’t have claustrophobia, so I think but the snug feeling to keep the water out was tiiight. If you have claustrophobia and cannot overcome it, you might have difficulty. The suits fit me big, these are one a size fits all so you are given what fits best with your body size. You do get a waterproof bag that you can put your stuff in. I used a joto waterproof holder to put my keys in and wore it around my neck under my thermals.
Instructions/Waiting to Get in the Water/Snorkelling/Pictures: our guide was Francesca. She was friendly, helpful not just to us but to other staff members. I could tell she truly enjoyed her job. Her enthusiasm is infectious.
Overall: we enjoyed our experience. There was so much excitement and anxiety going through me that I had to tell myself to enjoy this moment. Truly a wonderful experience.
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458gaber
Sep 26, 2024
Amazing experience. - We had an amazing trip with Wilmar. He was an excellent guide, knew all there was to know about the area and the geology, and made us laugh as well! Wilmar was an excellent guide, and made our experience amazing! The water is beautiful and clear, and the dry suit keeps you perfectly warm. Definitely recommend.
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Ach_1992
Sep 14, 2024
Great experience, just do it! - Great experience!! My best friend and I felt very safe and we had a good time too! The instructions were emailed in advanced and had very clear instructions. Paying for parking was easy. We were always moving and we never felt like we had to wait long. Our guides, Daniel and Pedro, were entertaining and provided good instructions. I had an issue putting in my snorkel and my guide, Daniel assisted me and I was able to have a great snorkel! We were able to look at our pictures afterwards and share with our families
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Fionaww1800xk
Aug 29, 2024
Amazing experience - This has got to be a real highlight of our trip. Lovely small group led by Fede. Very well organised from the suiting up, to safety briefing, water entry and throughout the whole experience. The clarity of the water is incredible and yiu are totally dry in the suits provided.
Being on my own wasn't an issue, there was one other solo and a lovely family of 4. Very friendly group.Highly recommend this, where else would you get such an experience. Great to get the photos too.
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34bernicey
Aug 16, 2024
Experience of a lifetime - Overall incredible experience! Francesca is the most kind, energetic, and positive guide! Her passion for diving is so clear in how she led the tour. It was refreshing to see how all of the guides are there to help and make the experience a lot of fun! If you are worried about snorkeling, they gave an option of only going part of the way and having a guide swim you back. In all honesty, the swimming and snorkeling was not too difficult though. The current brings you out then you swim a little bit up the current which gave about 45 minutes of in-water time. The dry suits kept us completely dry so we didn’t even use our change of clothes we brought. I highly recommend this tour! It was so worth it! Thanks again Francesca (and also Yannis of course)!
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O2966ekshanem
Jul 21, 2024
Fun time floating the Silfra rift! - We had a great time! Chris our guide was great; very knowledgeable and helpful. I’d recommend a float with him and Arctic Adventures… Quite the unique experience!
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93daxm
Jul 6, 2024
Silfra 2024 - Weronika our snorkel guide was excellent. 11/10! She took great care of our group, gave us tips on how to properly snorkel and overall just made it such a fun and meaningful experience. If you book this ask for her as your guide if you can get her. 6July2024 0915
Weronika if you read this THANK YOU!!!!!
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362kirkc
Jul 5, 2024
Silfra snorkeling - This is the most amazing snorkeling tour we’ve ever done! Yannis and Francesca were fantastic guides. We enjoyed their demeanor and they took some fantastic pictures of us snorkeling.
This is a not to be missed tour! Worth every penny!
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Elliecline16
Sep 19, 2024
Never got pictures - The tour was great despite very cold and wet. 2 complaints are wait time to get in the water with so many groups and I emailed the company since my 1330 tour with Chris on 9/16/24 didn’t upload all the photos and unfortunately my friend and I don’t have any pictures in the water which is a bummer
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Kristincu2666dc
Jul 31, 2024
Silfra was beautiful but Arctic Adventures was Terrible - This trip was a disaster. We were up North and skipped some other things we wanted to do in order to get to Silfra in time. We got there a little early and waited in the picnic area. We listened in as some of the other guides provided information on the area and talked about the parliament etc. It was very interesting and they seemed to be taking a lot of time to give participants a lot of information. We went back to the van and started to get our snorkel gear on.
My daughter couldn't get the boots of her dry suit on so I asked the guide to come over. My daughter told her the boots were too small. The guide bent down and shoved my daughter’s feet into the boots. My daughter said they were way too tight and the guide said they were supposed to be tight.
Then the guide got the group together to go over the dive. It was very brief and didn't go through the other information that the guides from the other companies did.
After that we started walking over to the dive platform. My daughter is normally a very fast walker but she was at the back of the group. After a short distance she stopped and told me that she was already getting blisters from the tight boots. I called the guide back and she looked at the boots and she said something about there not being suits with larger boots available (My daughter is tall but not a giant: 5’ 9” and size 10 foot). This was totally ridiculous as my feet are much smaller than my daughter's but my boots were much larger than hers. It was clearly too late to change the dry suit so we kept going.
The guide was getting increasingly irritated with us and not at all helpful. We got in the water and soon after we got started my daughter said the blisters were getting worse but she kept going. When we got towards the area with all the blue rocks you always in in pictures online, my daughter started struggling and panicking. She said she couldn't kick any more and was getting dragged by the current. I waved my arms to get the guide’s attention. Eventually she came over and had to pull my daughter to the platform. My daughter got out and I followed. We obviously had to cut the trip short and couldn't see the blue part of the lagoon. We started walking back to the van. The guide passed us with the rest of the group but didn't check to see how my daughter was doing. We got out of our suits and I brought the car back to pick up my daughter because she couldn't put her shoes on.
I asked the company for a refund. They gave me a long list of excuses for the poor experience and sub-par service and offered a 10% discount on our next trip with them. Ha!
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