Into the Far East

Into the Far East - On old postal roads through the East Fjords

Itinerary
23.06. Arrival in Egilsstaðir, drive to Loðmundarfjörður, overnight stay in mountain hut

Lodmundarfjördur

We meet in the morning at 09.35 at the domestic airport of the small town Egilsstaðir and drive the approximately 150 km scenic route to the beautiful fishing village  Bakkagerdi in Borgarfjördur eystri and after a short break we continue again 2 hours on serpentine roads to the enchanted, lonely Loðmundarfjörður, where our horses have been resting after the last tour.. After coffee we will have a first ride to the sea to get to know the horses before we start with the whole herd the next day. We will spend the night in the cozy hiker's cabin in Lodmundarfjörður next to the small church Klyppstaðir with an enchanting view of the surrounding mountains.

24.06. Loðmundarfjörður - Húsavík, overnight stay in mountain hut Húsavík

A beautiful route over the mountains to the next cabin in Húsavík. Who wants can go with us in the evening to the coast and to the small church of Húsavík. The mountain lodge Húsavík is situated on a hill surrounded by majestic mountains.

25.06. Húsavík -Breiðavík, overnight stay in mountain hut Breiðavík

We ride from the cabin in Húsavík through a fascinating mountain landscape, past the striking liparite-rich rock Hvitserkur and the mountain lake Gæsavatn, down into the next fjord Breiðavík. The cottage there is very close to the sea and gladly can in the evening again with your favourite horse to the beach.

26.06. Breiðavík -Borgarfjörður-eystri, overnight stay at Hotel Blábjörg, Borg.eystri

We ride back over 2 mountain passes towards Borgarfjörður eystra (www.borgarfjordureystri.en ) and again to the idyllic village of Bakkagerði, where there is the bird rock Holmavik with countless puffins and other things to discover: an "elf hill" to hike around, the old church of Bakkagerdi, the very cozy Álfacafe and finally a hotpot directly at the sea to relax. Pure Luxury

Overnight stay at Hotel Blábjorg (with possible hotpot/spa)

27.06. Borgarfjörður-eystri -Gagnstöð, overnight stay Geirastaðir

After the delicious breakfast buffet in Blábjörg we will go by hand horses from Bakkagerdi on the road directly along the sea to Njarðvík, where we have a break. Afterwards we ride over the steep, scenic beautiful mountain pass Gönguskarð with sea view over the last mountain of our tour. On the other side we leave our horses at the farm Gagnstöð and drive ourselves to our farm Geirastadir.

28.06. Gagnstöð-Hóll, overnight stay Geirastaðir

Today we ride over the wide Héraðsandur. We ride over sand dunes and open uneven meadows to the meadow areas to the sea beach, along which we ride for many kilometres. Experience has shown that it is difficult to keep the horses together as a herd here, so we take most of the horses as hand horses. If the group wishes we can ride to Egilsstadir to the geothermal bath Vök ( www.vokbaths.is ) and spend the evening in the spend the evening in huge hotpots.

29.06. Hóll -Geirastaðir, overnight stay Geirastaðir

Last stretch of the riding tour along the big river Lagarfljót to the old church Kirkjubær, from where an old post road leads directly to our farm Geirastaðir. There the horses may to their home pastures and we ourselves celebrate the "made" tour with roast lamb. roast lamb. Before that we can drive to our neighboring farm Húsey, to see the seals in the to watch the seals in the Jökulsá.

On 30.6.in the morning we drive the participants to the domestic airport (departure 10.05 o'clock) in

Egilsstaðir - and wish a good journey home or even further in Iceland.

Flight ticket to Egilstadir is included in the price

**We reserve the right to change tour route as necessary.