Multi-day Riding Tours
During summer Skálakot offers long horseback riding tours to the Highlands of South Iceland. If you like to get to know the Icelandic horse for real then this is something you should try. These tours take you through the greatest parts of the Highlands. With a diverse landscape, where you can find volcanoes, black sand areas, glaciers, rivers, green mountains, and geothermal springs as well as lava fields. Going through this landscape is a unique experience, and to be able to do in on a horseback is even more unique. To be out and experience the wilderness and the peaceful nature and being a part of it is something people will remember for the rest of their lives.
Duration: 5 nights, 4 days riding
In this horseback riding tour, you'll experience the diversity of Icelandic nature. We begin by doing a horseback riding tour to the glacier and then to the black beach. Then ride along trails through a grand wilderness. In the nature reserve, Thórsmörk (Þórsmörk), we explore the old forest and the mighty ravine Stakkholtsgjá which has been shaped by powerful glacial flash floods for thousands of years. In Þórsmörk we stay in mountain huts.
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Duration: 5 nights, 4 days riding
This horseback riding tour takes you through magnificent nature into the highland of South Iceland, riding between mighty glaciers and the monstrous landscape of fire and ice. We ride across Fjallabaksleið Syðri, (The South-Mountain pass), onwards to Einhyrningur-mountain and the great canyon of Markarfljót river, with a fantastic view over valleys, highland lakes, and the untouched wilderness. We will spend the nights in mountain huts.
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Duration: 6 nights, 5 days riding
This is the perfect horseback riding tour for those who want to experience untouched wilderness. In this tour, we do horseback riding on the southern highlands of Iceland nearby the volcano Hekla, Tindafjallajökull glacier and Eyjafjallajökull glacier. On our way, we sleep in huts which are used by the farmers during the annual herding of sheep in autumn. We'll explore spectacular lava-fields and formations and towering mountains.
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Duration: 8 nights, 7 days riding
This horseback riding tour is suited for the experienced rider. We ride about 25-60 km, 6-9 hours per day. You'll experience a great diversity in nature and get the chance to try different horses. The highlight is the geothermal hot-spot Landmannalaugar; a spectacular area, famous for its multicolored mountains in green, red and yellow, and a natural hot spring where we will 'cool off'.
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