Join a Timeless Icelandic Tradition

🌎Location: Iceland
🌙Duration: 5 days/4 nights or 6 days/5 nights
🛏️Accommodation: Farm / Guesthouse
🐴Riding Level: Intermediate-Advanced
📅2025 Dates

▪ September 4-8
▪ September 9-14
▪ September 17-21
▪ September 23-28
▪ October 1-5

In September and October, Iceland changes costume from the green summer dress over to the multi-color outfit of autumn! It’s an amazing season to travel around on horseback watching nature slow down for the upcoming arctic winter. This is also the time when farmers gather their sheep and horses down from the wilderness where they have spent the summer running around free in the mountains.

This 5 or 6-day tour is a combination of days spent riding with a loose herd, enjoying the autumn colors and ever-changing landscape of the north, and a visit to the horse roundups where riders get to join the farmers when they drive a herd of 500 young Icelandic horses from the mountains and separate them in the roundups.

Horses

The Icelandic horse is a symbol of national pride and cultural heritage. They are known for their surefootedness and gentle nature, and they are famous for the Tölt, a gait unique to the breed, which makes them incredibly comfortable over great distances and rugged terrain.

Riders will be accompanied by a loose herd, which adds a unique and exciting dynamic to the ride! Riders will change horses 1-2 times per day, giving them the opportunity to get to know a variety of horses over the course of the week.

Riding

Intermediate to Advanced

Riders should be capable of spending long hours in the saddle, tacking and untacking their own horse, and controlling the horse at all paces, even though rides will mainly consist of the walk and tölt.

Distance: 10-25 miles/15-35 km per day

Ride Time: 3-5 hours/day

Tack

Horses will be in saddles developed specifically for the Icelandic horse, closely resembling Dressage saddles. Saddle bags will be provided.

Terrain

This tour encompasses remote areas only accessible on foot or by horseback, riding on mainly soft riding tracks, ideal for riding the tölt. The ride will travel through farmland, across rivers, winding through hills and mountains to alpine lakes, and across black sand deserts.

Accommodation

Riders will be housed at guesthouses or a community center (depending on tour dates) with a common area and a hot tub. Riders will be accommodated in twin or triple rooms (2-3 people per room) with shared bathroom facilities.

Dining

Breakfasts and dinners are served family-style at the guesthouse. Home-cooked meals consist heavily of lamb and fish. Traditional Icelandic breakfasts include porridge, toast, cold cuts, and cheese. Riders make their own sandwiches in the morning to pack on the trail each day.

*We recommend bringing your own snacks for the trail, and any packets or condiments for adding to your sandwich (peanut or almond butter, mustard, mayonnaise, etc.)

Itinerary

  • 5 days / 4 nights

  • 6 days / 5 nights

  • 5 days / 4 nights

  • 6 days / 5 nights

  • 5 days / 4 nights

Planning and Packing

Dates

September 4-8 2025
September 9-14 2025
September 17-21 2025
September 23-28 2025
October 1-5 2025

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