Experience Glacier Hiking in Iceland

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Ever thought about walking on ice, let alone hiking on ice! Well, Iceland that roughly covers 11% of the glaciers of the country, is your definitely the place. The extremely beautiful landmarks with crevasses and walls, make up for a best hiking experience.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Hike in the largest and second largest glaciers of Iceland: Vatnajökull and Langjökull . The electric blue ice caves are surely a stunner!

Best Glacier Hiking Once based at Reykjavik, and you have plenty hiking options to choose from. Most hikes are part of the massive Vatnajökull glacier, and it's best to seek help from professional tour companies.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Remotely located yet picturesque to the core with dramatic cliffs, hiking along Vatnajökull is all about admiring the glacier's ice sculptures and the ice caves.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. A few hours drive from Reykjavik, the Sólheimajökull hike is open throughout the year. The glacier landscape is the easiest hiking route along with plenty waterfalls to see around.

Located in the Skaftafell Nature Reserve, Svinafellsjökull is full of mountain hiking alongside the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon with floating icebergs.

Interesting Places to see along the Hikes

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon The eerie blue color of the glacial icebergs, floating in the lagoon, melting into different shapes is the beauty of the place.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Skógafoss Waterfall Magnificent with beautiful rainbows encircling it, the enormity of the fall can't be explained, but only visioned.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Seljalandsfoss Waterfall A path leading straight behind the waterfall, with gushing cold water and drizzles falling overhead, be ready to be drenched completely.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Ice Caves Historically important and exceptionally breathtaking, the crystalized sapphire-aquamarine ice caves are a phenomena in Iceland.

Glacier Hiking Guidelines and Safety To take up on this strenuous activity, amid extreme conditions, pertaining to tremendous high altitudes, it's best to insure about the safety measures beforehand.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Include safety equipment with you on your journey. Boots, ice axes, safety harness, and crampons, are necessary on the glacier hike.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Glacier Hiking Tours Experience the best of glacier hiking while traversing with guides, who aptly explain the history and significance of each place on the trails.