Gjöf is very well known by many of our returning multi day tour guests, and more recently, she always has been a favorite during the day tours for experienced riders at home. This grand old lady might start to count her years now, but in no means she has become a slow beginners horse just […]
Apart from Á Sprengisandi, another song we often sing during horseriding tours (and other (horse-related) gatherings in Iceland) is “Ég er kominn heim” – This title meaning “I’ve come home” means a lot to many of our returning guests, who see Saltvík as a home away from home. Here’s the lyrics and translation! Er völlur grær
Born in 2003 at the farm Garðsá, Náma came to Saltvík as a young horse, part of the group of young horses Bjarni bought from that farm to grow his herd a bit faster than by his own breeding. She was first trained, and then, because it was clear that she was a real good
Last weekend it was time for the first tour of the season; the wintertour special – Horses On Ice! Every year in the first weekend of March, the competition on Ice ´Mývatn Open´ takes place, and the day before the competition there is a groupride organised for anyone who would like to do some iceriding.
It has been way too quiet for way too long here on our blog! Somehow life happened and maybe we were a bit too lazy to write blogs. Or we might have been too busy. Or both? Who could tell? 😉 In any case, a blog without any new content is rather boring, so we‘ll
Thursday the 20th of April, we celebrated „sumardagurinn fyrsti“; the first day of summer. This day is a national holiday in Iceland, on which we celebrate the end of the 6 dark months, and welcome the next 6 bright months. It is already almost not getting dark anymore here during the night now. Although the
This time our blog is written by one of our staff members of this summer. Read here how Annalena experienced working with us! Goðan daginn!This is Icelandic for good day! So hello and welcome. My name is Annalena and I was working here at Saltvík for almost 4 months during the summer 2022. During this
In the end of August the first endurance ride in Iceland took place. This was a trial with 4 teams riding over Kjölur from north to south. Iðunn, daughter of Bjarni, rode for team Saltvík/Riding Iceland. For this blog she wrote a little text about how she experienced it. The first time I heard about
It has been 1,5 week now since Bjarni & his herd came home after 57 days of riding the Dreamtour. Roughly 1600 kms and see what this did to his stirrup!We asked our friend Karin Gerhartl to take some pictures of the homecoming. See here a photo impression! All pictures taken by Karin Gerhartl. Video by Margret
This blog is not really about part 6 of the dreamtour in particular. It is more about the Saltvík / Riding Iceland experience in general. Written by Pat from the USA, who joined part 6. Enjoy! To say I left my heart in Iceland is an understatement. My daughter and I first experienced Iceland in 2019.