Day 1: Reykjavík  – Thorsmork

Pick up around 11 am at BSI bus station. Please be ready at the earliest pick up time and be  ready in your riding clothes. We travel by a private coach in the morning to the farm Skálakot, where we will meet horses and staff. We will take the horses out for a ride in the afternoon and ride up the mountains for spectacular views towards Westman islands and Eyjafjallajökull.

Day 2: Entering the Valley of Thor

Day 2: While our horses will be herded the first bit of the way, we start the morning with a visit at Seljalandsfoss and Gljufrabui waterfall. We will join the horses a bit later at the farm Stora-Mörk and saddle up! We start the ride down to the river Markarfljót and continue our ride past glacier lagoons and lava streams into the stunning nature park of Thorsmörk, crossing the glacial river Krossá on our way.  This will be our home for two 2 nights, in a cozy cabin in Húsadalur valley, where a sauna and a natural pool are also available.

Day 3: Riding inside Thorsmörk

We will spend the day riding inside the park, visiting numerous waterfalls and canyons. This is truly a wonderful area with the low bushes and glittering mountain creeks all over. Thorsmork has an especially warm climate (by Icelandic standards), better than in the rest of the southern part of the country. In the protected valley, there is green vegetation of moss, fern, birch wood and other small shrubs. (App. 25-30 km)

 Day 4: Thorsmörk

This day’s ride takes us back across the river Krossá (river condition permitting) and alongside River Markarfljót. Then we have to cross all the “small” glacial rivers from Mýrdalsjökull that go into Markarfljót.  Then we will be crossing the almost 100 year old bridge across one of the biggest glacial rivers in the south,, Markarfljót – where all the water we have been crossing today + much more, is forming one huge river. Now we are getting close to the most fertile farmland in Iceland, called Landeyjar, but still we will be riding on the former riverbed from the Markarfljót, without fully entering farmland, until we reach our field for the night, an oasis close to the desert.

Day 5: Land of the Sagas

Today we will be riding again the riverbed from Markarfljót, the same paths as the first Iceland’s settlers rode, where every stone is filled with the Icelandic sagas. One of our stops today we will be at a mythical place called Drumbabót, where we have a magnificent view of Þórsmörk and the desert we have been riding, there are fossils of former huge trees that were destroyed by an eruption in Katla in the days of the first settlement in Iceland. Now we start to get closer to the fertile farmlands and end in our field for the night.

Day 6: Going home

day 5 – today will be the “easy ride home” –  we will be crossing the only none-glacial river of the tour – Hólsá – which is where three big rivers meet: Ytri-Rangá, Þverá and Eystri-Rangá, before they reach the Atlantic ocean. It’s deep and wide and we need to be careful crossing. At the end of the day will follow the banks of Hólsá to Þykkvibær and end at Týri’s and Kristín’s place  After that we return to Minnivellir for a farewell barbecue.

Day 7: Return to Reykjavik after breakfast

– We reserve the right to alter the itinerary if necessary –