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Vatnajökull Ice Cave Exploration: Experience Ancient Blue Ice in Europe's Largest Glacier
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Söluskálinn í Freysnesi
Embark on a thrilling adventure to explore the ancient blue ice caves of Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier. Discover the beauty of these ever-changing natural wonders with minimal walking and a super jeep journey.
Embark on a thrilling adventure to explore the ancient blue ice caves of Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier. Discover the beauty of these ever-changing natural wonders with minimal walking and a super jeep journey.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Falljökull - The meeting point is in Freysnes, from where a 4x4 transfer will take you to the glacier’s base and then up to the ice cave.
The current walk from the parking area to the ice cave takes about 20 minutes.
2 for 1 adventure: Now featuring a glacier walk
The improved glacier walk offers an additional level of excitement, enabling…
- Falljökull - The meeting point is in Freysnes, from where a 4x4 transfer will take you to the glacier’s base and then up to the ice cave.
The current walk from the parking area to the ice cave takes about 20 minutes.
2 for 1 adventure: Now featuring a glacier walk
The improved glacier walk offers an additional level of excitement, enabling participants to fully experience the stunning glacial scenery before exploring the ice cave.
What's Included
- 4x4 modified vehicle transfer
- Small group tour
- Spikes and Helmet
- Supporting a Small Local Company
- Local and Professional Glacier Guide
- Carbon Neutralised Tour
- Glacier walk in Falljökull
- Visit to the Ice Cave
- 4x4 modified vehicle transfer
- Small group tour
- Spikes and Helmet
- Supporting a Small Local Company
- Local and Professional Glacier Guide
- Carbon Neutralised Tour
- Glacier walk in Falljökull
- Visit to the Ice Cave
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Our top-selling Ice Cave Tour! This brief excursion offers the chance to explore the breathtaking blue caves of Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier. The tour takes you to one of the more accessible ice caves for an encounter with ancient blue ice.
The conditions within the ice caves are ever-changing. During the warmer summer months, the caves are…
Our top-selling Ice Cave Tour! This brief excursion offers the chance to explore the breathtaking blue caves of Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier. The tour takes you to one of the more accessible ice caves for an encounter with ancient blue ice.
The conditions within the ice caves are ever-changing. During the warmer summer months, the caves are formed by melting glacier water. Each autumn, we begin the search for new ice caves.
This Season’s Unique Experience
- Be among the first to explore a pristine, newly discovered 20-meter long ice cave
- Admire the vibrant blue hues hidden within the glacier
- Experience the excitement as the ice cave suddenly emerges amidst the moraine
2 for 1 adventure: Now featuring a glacier walk
The enhanced glacier walk in Falljökull adds an extra layer of adventure, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the stunning glacial landscape before discovering the ice cave.
- Operates in most weather conditions, please dress appropriately. Please come in warm and waterproof clothing and good hiking boots.
- Your safety is of the utmost importance. Ice Cave tours are weather dependent. Sometimes tours have to be cancelled with short notice due to weather conditions or safety concerns or. After periods of adverse weather, the caves can become flooded or unsafe to enter. If this happens we will always do our best to offer an alternative such as a glacier hike if weather conditions allow, however if this is not suitable we will also always offer a full refund.
Location
Söluskálinn í Freysnesi
Our meeting point for the 2024 ice cave tours is at Freysnes service staton, we are situated at the parking lot next to the gas station building. Please look for a black truck labelled Local Guide.
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
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(154 Ratings)
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Andrea
Oct 7, 2024
Ice Cave Tour - A fantastic experience! First time on the glacier, but definitely worth repeating! Our Guide, Sofìa, entertained us for the three hours of the tour with a lot of information about glaciers and Iceland in general, also introducing us to some of the local culture. Walking on ice with crampons and inside the quarry dug by water, following the steps of an experienced person, definitely counts as an experience to try. A highly recommended tour
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Acr356
Oct 5, 2024
Great small group tour! - The small group ice cave tour and glacier walk was amazing! The glacier walk portion was unexpected but a lot of fun. Kish was a fantastic guide!
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Miletmiranda
Sep 7, 2024
One of the best experiences in Iceland - This ice cave tour was an incredible experience that I would happily do again. Our guide identified the best photo spots, helping us capture the cave’s breathtaking beauty from various angles. Additionally, our guide was attentive and accommodating, taking photos for solo travelers as well as group shots. He understood our desire to capture every moment and made sure we never felt rushed or pressured. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone visiting Iceland.
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Hawaiicondo
Apr 15, 2024
A chance to see the amazing forces of nature at work inside a crystal blue glacier. - The Blue Ice Cave was one of the highlights of our Iceland trip. We were staying near Vik and were ready to go on the Katla cave tour with another company but checking recent visitor photos from Katla on Google Maps just didn't look that great. Every photo was the same arch with people standing in the the same spot with a lot of people standing around. We found Local Guides by accident and were intrigued by their very informative explainer on what a blue ice cave is and how it differs from other glacier ice caves. Looking at the recent visitor photos on Google Maps sold us on making the drive to Vatnajokull. It was very much worth it and we enjoyed our local guide Damien along with our small group of trekkers. We had plenty of time to explore the cave, take pictures and discover this amazing place. Thanks Local Guides.
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Dwaraka79
Apr 9, 2024
Amazing Tour Guide - Our trip was awesome with tour guide Barbara. She helped in assisting our 9 year old daughter during the entire tour with much love. Additionally, she clicked family photos from our phone! highly recommend this tour and guide Barbara.
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Sotravelife
Apr 2, 2024
Great experience - Great experience, the guide gave us a lot of information about the glacier and the volcanoes below. Small group.
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Ronynasr
Mar 29, 2024
Best tour - Very professional and friendly team. They have some great spots. Mikal was our guide, and he explained everything needed he nailed it.
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Lisa_f
Apr 12, 2024
Pretty cool experience. - Cool experience. Short walk to the ice cave so anyone can do it. It was a little crowded and I wish there was more of them to see but it's worth it!
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Laurar6646
Apr 2, 2024
Small ice cave and a lot of waiting for other groups to pass through - Had looked forward to this experience but was quite disappointed. The cave itself is very small (would be possible to walk through it in less than 5 minutes easily) but they make you wait at multiple spots, so other groups can pass through before you. This means a lot of standing around and waiting at the entrance and then a short walk through the cave. The ice cave is very beautiful (although a bit dark) and the guide shared some interesting things about the glacier, but out of the 2,5 hour tour most was transport there or waiting for other groups to pass through before us. Considering the price, we did find it underwhelming.
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Global02194631643
Oct 9, 2024
Not Recommended - The guides who were contracted were great.
Sadly, the company did not do a good job of giving advance warning of a significant change in the meet up point and a shift in itinerary. Multiple groups were impacted when they changed the location last minute (I'm talking less than 24 hours notice) to a gas station that was 45 mins away from the original meetup. I heard their employees mention that 4 other groups didn't see the email and were missing their tours or forced into the afternoon time slot. Also, they never told us we should check our email for last minute changes, luckily for us we were nervous and checked our spam mail the night prior. On top of that, the full day tour advertised turned into a 4 hour experience instead. What was classified as a cave tour was a walk thru a tiny tunnel (nice but not special or a cave) and then a casual 3 km walk around the glacier.
Iceland is of course nice and the glacier itself was cool, but having been on a few glacier tours in other parts of the world, I'd recommend you save your money or go with a provider that is more honest and communicates better, if you must. Additionally based on the conversation I overheard between their employees, they clearly knew of the change to the location etc. a few days prior and withheld the info from us until the last minute to avoid any customer cancellations (by waiting till after their 24 hour cancellation period had ended) as a result of the significant changes to the day. I'll add that this totally screwed up our plans to visit Diamond Beach / Jokusalaron Lagoon on that day, since we expected to be visiting the glacier closer to that area and were instead rerouted to an area much further away.
Also, when I inquired about the changes they did not offer any partial refunds and tried to pretend that we were getting a better experience. The fact of the matter is they were trying to cut costs, communicated poorly and threw a bunch of different BS reasons to me by email about how they're running their business at a loss etc. - as though that is any of my concern. You have been warned.
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