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Jökulsárlón: Remote Glacier Hike and a Natural Ice Cave | 5 hours 30 minutes

19 Reviews | Hofn
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Jökulsárlón: Remote Glacier Hike and a Natural Ice Cave
2 Adults x $229.00
$458.00
Approx Total
$458.00

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English
  • All necessary glacier gear (harness, crampons, helmet) and headlamps
  • Lunch is not provided, but there will be time to eat your own lunch on the ice.

Overview

This is a tour designed for travelers, who seek to step further than most and feel like real explorers. Combine ice cave visit with an adventurous glacier hike, as you venture deep into the glacier hidden from the crowds. You will also visit the popular ice caves, but at less crowded time. The tour starts with a 40 min 4x4 ride to the glacier. First we visit an ice cave and spend one hour exploring it. We always try to visit the best cave available, but the choice may vary throughout the winter. This year the most beautiful cave is called Sparkle Ice Cave. However there might come conditions when entering it would be too hazardous. You can be sure that we will inform you if the conditions change. After the ice cave visit we will gear up for the glacier hike. Expect to spend up to 3 hours hiking. If the weather is good we will should see stunning sites, such as ice canyons, calving site, crevasses and moulins. You will come back feeling like an accomplished explorer!

Meeting points

You will find a 4x4 minibus branded with Ice Walkers Tours logo at the main parking lot of the lagoon.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

  • N/A

    An outlet of the largest Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull. You will see vast open ice-covered landscape with crevasses and moulins, as well as the highest peaks of Iceland in the distance.

    3 hours

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    A remote natural ice cave away from the main crowds. It's about 200 meters long and offers spectaculars shades of blue and shapes of ice which can't be found elsewhere

    1 hour

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Additional Info

  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • The total duration includes travel and hike time.

Free Cancellation

January 20100% refund
January 21No refund

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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Amazing tour

Published on Feb, 2025

An amazing tour on the Vatnajökul glacier. About 4h30 on the glacier and the ice cave. Our guide took us to the best spot on the edge of the glacier with a great view on the jokusarlon lagoon. Martin was very nice and explained everything about the history of the glacier. The 4 frenchies.

Unique experience

Published on Feb, 2025

It was an amazing hike and a unique experience! The guides Martin and Ola are very friendly and always tried to make sure that our experience was great. Thank you so much for that!

Perfect Experience!!!

Published on Jan, 2025

The views were amazing!!! Our guides were knowledge and so so generous and kind. They helped us feel prepared and totally safe the entire time. Marty and Ola were both wonderful. They both stopped at various times to help travelers from other groups struggling with their crampons. They showed us many locations and took us to a beautiful cave. I’ll be recommending to any friends and family I know that come to Iceland. I felt like we had a private more “local” feel compared to the mega buses in the lot as well.

Great trip

Published on Jan, 2025

Very kind and very fun, perfect amount of difficulty. Would 100 percent do again and recommend others to do it as well. Thank you

Small scale company

Published on Jan, 2025

We weren’t able to go on a tour with this company but I did my research and they are a nice, local, small scale company. Carefully of the massive tour companies or tour company aggregates …. I think the experience would have been amazing. I communicated with them a lot and they were prompt and helpful. Very sorry we couldn’t make the experience happen.

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