In the morning the group will be picked up by our private bus from BSI busstation downtown Reykjavík. After the busdrive up north (about 3 hours drive), the first ride is a short but nice ride with just 1 horse per person (no herd) along lake Húnavatn towards the shores of the North Atlantic ocean / Greenland sea. This ride is ideal to get used to the horses and the way of riding in Iceland before we ride a long day away from roads in the coming days. 

Today we ride without the herd towards lake Hóp to cross this lake, which is one of the largest lakes in Iceland. This is truly an experience never to forget! Lake Hóp is for the most part of the crossing rather shallow, and on days with no / little wind it is as if one is riding over a mirror. At the other side we take a nice lunchbreak under a massive basalt-rock wall before heading back to the farm, crossing the lake once more.

We ride from the farm down to lake Hóp, but today we ride along the shores of the lake and have a beautiful view over the lake until we reach the river Víðidalsá which we follow upstream riding along the soft riverbanks. We’ll cross the river several times on our way to the farm Stóra Ásgeirsá where we‘ll leave the horses for the night.

We keep following the riverbanks of Víðidalsá for a bit until we ride out of Víðidalur valley. Then we follow very nice ridingtrails towards the river Miðfjarðará which we‘ll cross and then follow it‘s riverbanks towards a place close to the roundpen of Miðfjarðarrétt.

Then we follow very nice ridingtrails along the beautiful riverbanks of Miðfjarðará towards our farm Reynhólar where we’ll end the last ride of this tour.

Today we will leave our guesthouse just after breakfast and drive back to Reykjavík. 

Estimated arrival in Reykjavík is early afternoon (about 13 o’clock)