When riding unknown trails, one sometimes comes across some unexpected obstacles, like we did on day 5 of the tour through the Westfjords. After a beautiful ride through a deserted valley past several pretty waterfalls, we came to the mountain/plateau we were supposed to cross and soon found ourselves hiking with our horses over the most […]
Dreamtour Part 3 is finished now and Emely made a real nice photo impression of these 6 days. Please travel along a little! Eileen, demonstrating the good back rider skill of keeping enough distance between riders and herd to allow the herd to walk single file. The occasional “hop hop” will be needed of course,
Dreamtour Part Two; The Golden Highlights of the South started early on Monday 26th July. When we arrived in Fossnes the first thing after meeting the guests that already did Sprengisandur, was to grab the raingear because of the persistent rain. After our preparations and shoeing we could start for the ride and as usual, if everybody
Thursday 15th of July was the big day. Bjarni and his herd of fantastic horses left Saltvík to go on the longest trip they ever made; the Dreamtour! 57 days away from home in total. The tour consists of 6 parts in total:– Part 1: Sprengisandur (9 ridingdays)– Part 2: Golden Highlights of the South
The tourseason has started but it has been a rather slow start due to the covid regulations and many of our guests not being fully vaccinated yet in June. We did have a full group of Icelandic riders half of June though, and the week after a kids ridingcamp which was lots of fun. Our
The song all the riders in Iceland know is “Á Sprengisandi”. In this blog you’ll find the lyrics and the translation. Get ready to sing along with us during your ridingtour 🙂
Hetja was born on the 17th of June (the Icelandic Independence Day) in 2010, and her name is Hetja (hero) for a reason! Here’s the special story about why she got this name!
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