Trekking Tours in northern-europe

Markarfljot Valley

These exciting treks in the Torfajokull region of Iceland involve walking between simple huts. They are so remote that at some times of the year we are unlikely to see other tourists. We are not limited to areas accessible by vehicle but explore the stunning landscapes fashioned by extreme natural forces.

The landscape of Iceland is like nothing else on earth. Against a backdrop of mountain, desert, giant ice-cap and cataclysmic ice-fall, we find a strange natural phenomenon: hot springs; the devastation of volcanoes, several of them beneath the sea or under ice-caps; the awe-inspiring effects of erosion in this newly formed landscape and giant rivers with their famed waterfalls. This is an overwhelming wilderness that offers challenges to the adventurous traveller!

Here, away from the tourist routes, venture only the occasional geologist, surveyor or adventurer, and in autumn, farmers on horseback driving their sheep from the summer pastures. Few people will cross the interior passes and it will be deserted, save for the cry of the Whimbrel and Golden Plover.

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