Culture · 10D | 9N
Sagas & the North Coast
The west and north, where the sagas were written and set: Snorri Sturluson's farm, the Settlement Centre, Snæfellsnes, and Akureyri's turf churches.
- Best time
- September to March for the aurora; June to August for the highlands
- Route
- Reykjavík · Borgarnes · Snæfellsnes · Akureyri · Húsavík
Day by day
10 days, planned in full
The west and north, where the sagas were written and set: Snorri Sturluson's farm, the Settlement Centre, Snæfellsnes, and Akureyri's turf churches.
Day 1
Arrive in Reykjavík
Into the old west end, and an evening at the Settlement Exhibition, built over a tenth-century longhouse found under the street.
- Night
- Reykjavík
- Meals
- Dinner
Day 2
The National Museum, and the manuscripts
A morning with the museum's thousand-year timeline, then the Culture House to see the vellum on which the sagas actually survive.
- Night
- Reykjavík
- Meals
- Breakfast
Day 3
North to Borgarnes
The Settlement Centre's two exhibitions — the settlement itself, and Egil's Saga told room by room — and a night on the fjord.
- Night
- Borgarnes
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 4
Reykholt and Deildartunguhver
Snorri Sturluson's farm, where the Prose Edda was written and its author was murdered in the cellar, and Europe's highest-flowing hot spring.
- Night
- Borgarnes
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 5
Snæfellsnes
The peninsula at the end of Laxdæla Saga: Kirkjufell, the black church at Búðir, and Djúpalónssandur's wrestling stones on the beach.
- Night
- Snæfellsnes
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 6
Across the north-west
A long drive by Hvítserkur's sea stack and the seal colony at Hvammstangi, with a restored manor house at the end of it.
- Night
- Skagafjörður
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 7
Turf houses at Glaumbær
A farm of thirteen turf-walled rooms, lived in until 1947, then Hólar's cathedral seat and the Icelandic horse's own history museum.
- Night
- Akureyri
- Meals
- Breakfast
Day 8
Akureyri and Goðafoss
The botanical garden and the town's basalt church, then the waterfall where the law-speaker threw the old gods in, in the year 1000.
- Night
- Akureyri
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 9
Húsavík
Three hours on the water with humpbacks, then the whaling museum, which is honest about what the boats used to do.
- Night
- Húsavík
- Meals
- Breakfast, dinner
Day 10
Fly home
Akureyri to Reykjavík by air, then Keflavík for the connection.
- Meals
- Breakfast
What's included
- 9 nights in country hotels, farm stays and a restored manor
- Return economy airfare and the Akureyri–Reykjavík internal flight
- Private vehicle and a saga-literate driver-guide throughout
- All museum and site entries named in the itinerary
- Húsavík whale-watching with waterproofs
- Seven dinners and daily breakfast
- A reading list posted out before departure
Not included
- Schengen visa fees
- Lunches
- Travel insurance
- Aurora wake-up calls, which only the September to March departures include
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