The Reykjavik special local private tour – spend a day with a local Icelander
This is your chance to meet the Icelanders. Discover our world outside the tourist crowd.
Become one of us for a day. Get out of the center area to meet the locals. Reykjavik is my home city where I was born. We will make a tour around the city, but there are five more towns around Reykjavik and we will also visit some of them.
The lunch will be very special and you will not meet any tourists there, only locals. It’s very popular so it’s best to come early or late.
The open-air museum is something you should not miss. It’s full of lucky old houses that escaped being torn down in the center of Reykjavik. If it’s something I really miss from home when I’m traveling I would say it’s our geothermal swimming pools. We will visit the pool in my area and get special treatment because I know the superintendent. Visiting an Icelandic home is probably not something you do every day so at the end of the tour that’s maybe your only chance.
It’s a place where the locals have lunch with typical Icelandic home food. It’s a buffet with three courses plus vegan and you can eat as much as you like.
Our next stop is Árbæjarsafn. An open-air museum with old houses from the late 19th century with exhibitions inside. An excellent opportunity to visit a home from the time most Icelanders still lived on farms and Reykjavik was only a small town.
The local swimming pool Árbæjarlaug is next on the agenda. Many say it’s the best swimming pool in Iceland with a beautiful view down the Elliðaárdalur valley. We will not only go into it but also under it to learn about how it works. A site most visitors never see. Finally, I will invite you to my home and answer all your questions about life in Iceland.
Description
Tour duration:
8 hours
Transportation:
Ford Transit bus model 2016 clean and in good condition with good space for up to 12 passengers and plenty of luggage.
What is included:
- Guiding Services
- Private Transportation
- Refreshment and a taste of the traditional Icelandic food at the end of the tour
No included:
- Admission tickets and lunch are not included. Bring with you some appropriate warm clothes depending on the weather conditions, and a swimsuit and a towel for the swimming pool. These can also be rented at the pool.
- Admission to the open-air geothermal hot pool:
Adults: 1380 ISK ($12)
Children 17 and younger: 210ISK ($2)
Swimsuit: 1230 ISK ($11)
Towel: 640 ISK ($5)
Itinerary
- The day begins with a pick-up at your location.
- We will make a City tour in Reykjavik and visit all the five neighboring towns.
- We will stop at all the main places but also go to the suburb to see where most of the people live.
- After that, around noon, we will have lunch in the eastern part of Reykjavik. It’s a place where the locals have lunch with typical Icelandic home food. It’s a buffet with three courses plus vegan and you can eat as much as you like.
- Our next stop is Árbæjarsafn. An open-air museum with old houses from the late 19th century with exhibitions inside. An excellent opportunity to visit a home from the time most Icelanders still lived on farms and Reykjavik was only a small town.
The local swimming pool Árbæjarlaug is next on the agenda. Many say it’s the best swimming pool in Iceland with a beautiful view down the Elliðaárdalur valley. We will not only go into it but also under it to learn about how it works. A site most visitors never see. - Finally, I will invite you to my home. There I will try to answer all your questions about how it is to live in Iceland.
