Travelling Iceland

Travelling Iceland A travel agency and tour operator based in Iceland. Personal service and multilingual guides🌎

Travelling Iceland´s focus is to give the traveler the best of Iceland by journeying slowly, with a personal touch from a local guide. The company´s travel designers create bespoke itineraries, tailor-made to each guest´s needs and wishes. By customizing its trips in this way, Travelling Iceland helps to make a dream holiday in Iceland come true. We are proud to present that Travelling Iceland won the LTG Europe award 2019, for being the winner of Private Tour Operator of the Year in Iceland! Travelling Iceland can take visitors to all the best-known destinations, such as the Golden Circle, the South Coast, and Glacier Lagoon, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, or a week tour around the island. Visitors can also go on a more relaxed wellness tour, involving nature experiences and geothermal baths, such as the Blue Lagoon, Fontana spa, Jarðböð spa, Krauma spa or the Secret Lagoon. Travelling Iceland also offers visits to less-traveled places, such as Landmannalaugar and Þórsmörk nature reserves. The super jeep 4*4 tours grant guests exclusive access to destinations deep in the heart of Iceland. If visitors wish to add adventure to the trip, the company offers many options, such as snorkeling or diving in the pristine and clear water of Silfra; a lava cave exploration tour; ice cave tour; a whale-watching and puffin-watching tour; horse riding; ATV; fishing; snowmobiling; kayaking; a journey inside a volcano; or inside a glacier; hiking in Iceland´s astonishing nature; or a walk through an amazing glacial landscape. Every tour is special, to make sure that every guest gets the very most of their visit to beautiful Iceland. Travelling Iceland´s guides are local experts who are filled with knowledge of Iceland´s history, nature, landscape and folktales.

Stand inside a glacier and the light turns blue. Not a filter. Not a trick of the photo. The ice itself.Here is why. Sno...
09/09/2026

Stand inside a glacier and the light turns blue. Not a filter. Not a trick of the photo. The ice itself.

Here is why. Snow falls on the glacier and, over centuries, the weight above squeezes every air bubble out of the ice below until it is dense and clear. Ice like that absorbs the warm end of the light, the reds and yellows, and lets only the blue through. So the deeper and older the ice, the bluer it glows. What you are standing inside is pressure and time, made visible.

These caves are carved out each summer by meltwater running through the glacier, and they are safe to enter only in the cold months when that water has drained and the ice has firmed up. Every one is temporary. The cave we take you into this winter will not exist next year.

That is the thing about Iceland. So much of it is happening right now, on a timescale you can actually feel.

Message us if you want to see it while it is here.

Now and then a guest writes something I keep. This one came from a mother and daughter, after their trip.“Had the most a...
07/09/2026

Now and then a guest writes something I keep. This one came from a mother and daughter, after their trip.

“Had the most amazing mother-daughter adventure in Iceland thanks to Travelling Iceland. Helga built our vacation around our budget and interests. It is rare that every aspect of a planned trip goes as imagined, but the transportation, tours and stays were all flawless. A vacation dream come true.”

If you would like your days here to feel like that, send us a message.

These are not diamonds. They are blocks of ice more than a thousand years old.They break off the Breiðamerkurjökull glac...
04/09/2026

These are not diamonds. They are blocks of ice more than a thousand years old.

They break off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, drift across the Jökulsárlón lagoon, out to the sea, and then the waves push them back onto the black volcanic sand where they sit and glitter until they melt.

Here is the part most people miss. The lagoon they drift through did not exist a hundred years ago. It only formed in the 1930s as the glacier retreated, and it is still growing. So you are looking at two clocks at once, ice that is a thousand years old, resting on a beach shaped by change happening inside a single lifetime.

That contrast is the whole reason we bring guests here. It is not just beautiful. It is the planet keeping a record where you can stand and read it.

Message us if you want to understand what you are looking at, not just photograph it.

This is Brúarfoss, Iceland's bluest waterfall, and it sits right on the Golden Circle. Most people drive within minutes ...
02/09/2026

This is Brúarfoss, Iceland's bluest waterfall, and it sits right on the Golden Circle. Most people drive within minutes of it on their way to Gullfoss and never turn off.

The colour is not an edit. It comes from glacial meltwater off Langjökull, carrying fine silt that scatters the light into that electric blue over the dark bedrock. The name means “bridge falls,” after a stone arch that crossed the river here centuries ago and is long gone.

It takes a small detour and a short walk, which is exactly why it stays quiet.

Comment BLUE and I will send you how to find it. Or message us and we will fold the quiet places into your whole trip.

A group tour moves at the speed of its slowest promise. Forty people, one schedule, a car park shared with six other coa...
31/08/2026

A group tour moves at the speed of its slowest promise. Forty people, one schedule, a car park shared with six other coaches.

Private is different. You linger where you want to linger. Your guide already knows what you came for, so no one is hoping they drew a good one on the day. And when the weather or the light does something unexpected, the day changes to meet it.

Tell us what your ideal day in Iceland looks like and we will build from there.

When I ask travellers at the end of a trip what stayed with them, I brace myself a little, because it is almost never th...
28/08/2026

When I ask travellers at the end of a trip what stayed with them, I brace myself a little, because it is almost never the thing I would have guessed.

It is rarely the biggest waterfall or the photo everyone takes. It is a moment on a back road. A rock I explained that suddenly made a whole valley make sense. The quiet at a place where no one else was standing.

People arrive wanting to see Iceland. What surprises them is that they leave understanding a piece of it. How it was built, why it looks the way it does, what it is telling us about the planet right now.

That is the whole reason I do this. Our guests do not come home with a new screensaver. They come home changed.

“I would recommend this to everyone interested in experiencing Iceland without the mass tourism. Helga is very passionate about nature and the environment. Her knowledge of not only Iceland but geology in general is extensive. If you have the chance, do not pass up.”
Erika W.

If that is what you want from your time here, send us a message and tell us what you are hoping for.

Most people photograph Reynisfjara. Fewer realise they are standing on a lava beach.The black sand is basalt, the rock m...
26/08/2026

Most people photograph Reynisfjara. Fewer realise they are standing on a lava beach.

The black sand is basalt, the rock most of Iceland is made of, ground down by the sea over thousands of years. The columns rising behind it are that same rock, cooled slowly enough to crack into near-perfect six-sided pillars. It is the same pattern you will find at the Giant's Causeway, and, as it turns out, on Mars.

It is one of the most photographed places in the country. It is also one of the most misread, and one of the most dangerous if you do not respect the water.

Message us if you would like to see the south coast with someone who can read it.

24/08/2026

The famous places are famous for a reason. The waterfalls, the black beaches, the glaciers, the geysers, they earn it.

The difference is how you see them. With time to stand still. Without a coach idling behind you. With someone beside you who can tell you what you are actually looking at.

Message us and we will build your days around the Iceland you came for.

The day was over. We had seen what we set out to see, everyone was tired in the good way, and the plan was done.Then the...
21/08/2026

The day was over. We had seen what we set out to see, everyone was tired in the good way, and the plan was done.

Then the sky started to move.

The aurora does not run on a schedule, and it does not care that the itinerary says the day has ended. So we went back out.

This is the part I can never put in a brochure. The moments people carry home are almost never the ones we planned.

“Helga, Yandy, and Addý have a true passion for guiding; they gave 110% to every photo and every explanation. When the Northern Lights didn't cooperate, Helga even took me out to look for them a second time! Grateful to TI for an unforgettable experience.”
Alex S.

If that is the kind of trip you are after, message us and tell us when you are thinking of coming.

Anyone can stand at these places. The difference is knowing what you are looking at.I spent my career studying how this ...
19/08/2026

Anyone can stand at these places. The difference is knowing what you are looking at.

I spent my career studying how this island was built, and these are the details I point out that most people miss. The tell before a geyser fires. The moss you should never step on. The reason one mountain range is every colour at once.

Swipe through. Slide 5 is the one that surprises people about plate tectonics.

If you want days in Iceland where the landscape actually makes sense, send us a message and we will start there.

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