Iceland - Nature's Treasures Riding Tour

3 or 4 Days
Hotel Accommodations
Horse riding & Comfortable Lodgings

Nature´s Treasures and Rider´s Pleasures
2012

A very pleasant hote-based tour that combines riding with a very comfortable base at the Hotel Eldhestar. There are lots of choices - you can choose among the many riding trails around the Hotel Eldhestar. The tour can be either 5 or 6 days long, (with 3 or 4 days of riding) and starts nearly any day.

The hardest part about this tour is deciding what to do! It’s very flexible, so riders can choose, according to their skills or interest, or even the weather, what they should do and where they should go. There are lots of riding options in the mountains, valleys and river banks nearby, and at the end of each day the Hotel Eldhestar offers the comfort of a hot pot, good dinner, soft beds and private bathrooms, plus the conviviality of a chat in the bar.

You’ll have to pick from among the following possibilities:

* An exciting ride through the undulating valley of Reykjadalur with its unusual rock formations and many steaming hot springs where we also bathe in a gentle geothermal stream.
* A relaxing ride along the mountains Reykjafjall and Ingólfsfjall before lunch. And then, afterwards, there’s time for more riding, or relaxing at the farm!
* A comfortable ride on the grassy trails that go along the banks of the river Ölfusá, and out along its delta. The bird sanctuary there may offer views of many Icelandic birds.
* An interesting ride into the narrow, geothermal valley Grensdalur, where colorful mineral and mountain formations abound.

There are many convenient things about the Nature’s Treasures Tour! It’s available to start on any day when there is room at the hotel for you. It’s flexible enough to allow you a choice of where you’d like to ride most days - depending on your experience, energy, the weather, and whim. It’s comprehensive in that it gives you several nights in the country during the riding days, and it has a night in Reykjavik - so you’ll enjoy Iceland’s beautiful landscape and its lively capital!

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DATES
This tour can be started any day of the week, as it is cycled through the season.

Duration: of 5 or 6 days (in Iceland) with full board except for last night in Reykjavik (accommodations are included for that night).

Riders can be picked up at hotels and guest houses in Reykjavik after breakfast on the first day and returned to Reykjavik after the tour.

2012 Dates and Prices*

Dates	5 Day tour	6 Day tour
	3 days riding	4 days riding
Jan to March	$ 1876	$2125
April to May	2195	2486
June, July, Aug	2407	2739
Single traveler, single room
Jan to March	2045	2335
April to May	2401	2733
June, July, Aug	2636	3010

*Prices and Useful Details
This ride, which is available as a 5 or 6 day tour, with three or four riding days, runs every day from January until December and can be joined on any day that there is room at the farm. Riders will arrive in Iceland, have a day in Reykjavik then be taken to the outfitters farm for overnight, so you’ll be ready to ride the next morning when the tour starts. You’ll ride for the allotted number of days, have a post ride night in a Reykjavik hotel before leaving for home the next day. Here’s how the four day tour works - if you choose to arrive in Iceland on a Monday morning, you could see a bit of Reykjavik that day, spend Monday night at the farm, ride Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, return to Reykjavik Friday night, and leave on Saturday. This is a great tour to use at the start or end a great Iceland adventure!

2012 PRICES
Price* includes round trip airfare, including fuel surcharge and departure taxes, from Boston, New York, Minneapolis,and Washington Dulles International Airport. (Ask about prices from Denver, Seattle, Toronto, Halifax and Europe). Also includes all airport transfers, hotel accommodations in Reykjavik after the ride with private bath, tv, internet connection, and breakfast, a comfortable hotel room on the outfitters farm during the ride with private bath, all meals during the ride, as well as safety helmets and rain gear.

* Not included in the price are travel insurance, breakfast and lunch on your arrival day, dinner on your last riding day back in Reykjavik, lunch and dinner on the day of departure and the cost of any additional travel.

Choice of riding trails each day will depend on weather & trail conditions.

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Nature´s Treasures and Rider´s Pleasures 2012

Nature´s Treasures and Rider´s Pleasures
2012