Sightseeing in Iceland

Sightseeing in Iceland is sorted by budget, and the spread is wider here than almost anywhere: a folklore walk through Reykjavík costs 50 dollars for ninety minutes, while a private day out to the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon runs 2397 for fourteen hours. Almost everything else falls between those poles.

The cheap end is the city on foot. The ninety-minute walk through local legends and the two-hour route with a guide in Viking dress both cost 50 dollars and need no trip beyond the capital. The Golden Circle in its group audio-guided form comes to 96 dollars for seven and a half hours; the premium small-group version, 116 for nine. The cheapest entry in the catalogue is a self-guided city quest at 9 dollars.

The expensive end works differently: there you are paying for the vehicle and the guide outright. A private Golden Circle costs 1766 dollars, the south coast 1934, the Snæfellsnes peninsula 2102 and the glacier lagoon 2397; four hours of a car with a driver around Reykjavík, 924. Helicopter overviews last forty minutes and start at 310. GetExperience lists 27 sightseeing programmes in Iceland, from 9 to 2397 dollars. Pages state what the price covers and where the route starts.