Explore & Discover

Reykjavík offers a myriad of adventures and a paradise of possibilities for all who visit!
Next to nature

Reykjavík lies just minutes away from magnificent unspoiled landscapes and natural wonders.
Health & Wellness

The perfect way to experience Reykjavík’s healing energy is to visit one of our many thermal pools or spas.
Reykjavík's Culture Scene

Enhance your trip to Iceland by getting to know our culture!
Endless Nights & Northern Lights

Stay up late and be captivated by Iceland's otherworldly illuminations!

Activities in Reykjavik & Iceland

In a place where nature still creates and continents collide, Iceland has countless different types of terrain to explore and a multitude of different ways to explore them!

Compiled below are various tour operators which are sure to intrigue and make your stay in Reykjavík memorable.

4x4 Adventures

We offer ATV tours and Jeep tours, between lava and black sand and up onto the mountain Hagafell.

Ambassador Whale Watching

Ambassador offers exciting whale watching tours, marine wildlife and nature adventures at sea, including our famous Northern Lights Cruises - departing from Reykjavik old harbour.

Archery Centre

A fun and safe sport for the whole family!

Arctic Running

Daytours to and from Reykjavik for those who want to travel while running!

Biking Viking

Biking Viking is a well-established motorcycle rental, which specializes in motorcycle tours around Iceland.

Chocolate Trailer

Learn to make high quality Icelandic chocolates at home in only 60 minutes by easy, professional methods. A fun class for the whole family!

Creative Iceland

Creative Iceland provides creative activities, cultural experiences, and custom-made itineraries for individuals, families, and groups.

Elding Imagine Peace Tower Tour

Enjoy an evening tour dedicated to Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower on the historical Videy Island. Uniting history, nature and art, the Imagine Peace tour is a guided evening tour dedicated to Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower and her and John Lennon’s continuing campaign for world peace.

Elding Whale Watching

Elding Whale Watching specializes in activities on sea such as whale watching, puffin watching, sea angling, northern lights cruises and the ferry to Viðey Island.

Eskimos Iceland

We specialize in planning, organizing and operating experiences for individuals, groups, travel agencies or private companies.

f-stop Tours

f-stop Tours is a year-round company, owned and operated by Michael J. Kissane, a dual US-Icelandic citizen who lives and works in Iceland for the past 26 years.

FishIceland

Guided day tours with an angling professional are tailored to suit individual or group requirements, from people who have never fished before to expert fly fishers in search of specimen catches.

Friend in Iceland

We aim to service people who want tailor made tours or activities, so they can enjoy the perfect experience in Iceland.

Gavia Travel

Gavia Travel is a Nature and Wildlife Watching holiday organizer in Iceland. Our team includes some of Iceland’s leading ornithologists, geologists, nature and wildlife photographers and Iceland’s most active and best known birders.

Goecco Outdoor Adventure

Whether you go on one of our hikes, walks, day-tours or private tours, we’ll show you the real Iceland: the serene, the thunderous, the quaint, and the surreal. We also offer haunted walks in Reykjavík.

Green Energy Travel

Green Energy Travel - Iceland is a new environmentally friendly touring company. We want to introduce you to the beauty and wonders of Iceland in a personal and exciting way.

Harpa Guided Tour – Behind the scenes

Experience the magnificent Harpa from behind the scenes. A stimulating journey exploring the less visible brilliance of this rewarded architectural masterpiece.

Hey Iceland

We have 25 years of knowledge and expertise and offer a wide range of truly unforgettable tours and a network of over 170 carefully selected accommodations all around Iceland.

IC Iceland

We offer adventurous tours around the Icelandic landscape. In our customized luxury 4x4 trucks, we take you to impossible places of unspoiled nature, which few are privileged to visit.

Iceland in a Box: A Visual Tour

The Iceland Expo Pavilion - 360° cinematic experience. The diversity of Iceland in 15 minutes.

Iceland Photo Tours

A leading company which specializes in Landscape Photography Tours and workshops in the Arctic, offering a variety of tours both in Iceland and Internationally.

Iceland South Coast Travel

Iceland South Coast Travel is a family company organizing private jeep tours and hiking tours with professional and experienced guides.

Icelandic Mountain Guides

We offers a great selection of Iceland Tours including hiking tours, trekking tours, Iceland horse riding, mountain climbing and mountaineering, Iceland glacier tours, ice climbing and more - a great idea for your Iceland adventure vacation!

Into the Glacier

Our tour company offers a great selection of guided adventure tours, such as glacier tours, self drive, incentive, super trucks, river rafting, snowmobile, horse riding, hiking, ATV and whale watching.

KGB Tours

We offer day tours and longer tours to groups as well as arranging accommodation and pick up from the airport if required.

Laxnes Horse Farm

As a family run, fully licensed tour operator, our main purpose is to introduce travelers to the amazing, gentle and one-of-a-kind Icelandic horse.

Meet the Natives

Short courses, with a proficient language teacher (3 hours at the most) on how to meet the natives, order coffe, say hi, etc.

Mountaineers of Iceland

Mountaineers of Iceland is a DMC, Destination Management Company, operating adventure tours since 1996, specializing in Super Jeeps and snowmobile tours, mainly in the south western part of Iceland.

Nightlife Friend

Reykjavik Nightlife Friend is an exclusive VIP nightlife service. We take you to the best places to party in Reykjavik, get you VIP entrance into the best clubs, arrange bottle tables and help you break the ice with the locals.

Northern Lights in Reykjavik

The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, can be experienced in Iceland during the winter time on clear crisp nights, where they appear in a variety of colours and intensity.

Réttir - Annual Sheep Roundup!

During the month of September both Icelanders and a fair number of tourists head-off to the countryside to take part in Réttir - the annual sheep roundup.

Reykjavík City Library Dark Deeds Walk

The Reykjavík City Library hosts literary walking tours in downtown Reykjavík every Thursday in June, July and August at 3 pm.

Reykjavík Literary Walk

Reykjavík City Library has offered literary walking tours, mainly in downtown Reykjavík, since 2003.

Reykjavik Viking Adventure

Reykjavík Viking Adventure offers sailing tours on an authentic Icelandic Viking ship from the old harbor.

Salt Eldhus

Salt Eldhus Cooking School invites you to join them for some delicious fun and a chance to cook with fresh local ingredients under the supervision of skilled instructors.

Shuttle Service

We have the traditional and commonly known Airport shuttleservice between Reykjavik and Keflavik International Airport.

Snorri Travel

We provide planning, booking, operating and we guide several tours around Iceland; all according to your needs.

Solveig's Reykjavik Culture Kitchen

Sólveig's Reykjavík Kultur Kitchen provides cultural experiences for foreign guests through local cuisine, musical events, and stories from Icelandic history and culture.

Superjeep

We offer a wide variety of day tours, tailor made and private tours; as well as guided and thrilling excursions through the nature in Iceland.

Tales from Iceland

Informative - Easy and Fun! Some have even described it as a modern national museum. Tales from Iceland is an exhibition on Iceland and Icelanders. It is set up on two floors, a nature exhibition, and a news exhibition.

The Bowling Palace

The Bowling Palace offers 18 high quality bowling lanes, with automatic scoring system and new plastic lanes.

The Reykjavik Food Walk

In the tastiest sight seeing tour in Iceland, we explore the down town Reykjavik area through 13 delicious local cuisines that you would never come across in your typical “to-do in Iceland” itinerary! For approx. 4 hours you will stroll around the city and visit 6 unique restaurants with a fun & knowledgeable local guide by your side.

Travelade

Travelade is a website to help travelers discover the best articles and travel blogs about what to do in Iceland, curated by local experts.

Viking Horses

Viking Horses is a small family run business located on the outskirts of Reykjavik. We specialise in exclusive private tours and small group horse riding adventures with a professional and personal service.

Your Friend in Reykjavík

Your Friend in Reykjavik is a small family run travel company. We offer walking tours in downtown Reykjavik for smaller groups, never exceeding 12 people because we like to keep it personal and get to know each and every one of you.

Activity Iceland

We love showing you around all our favorite and not so known stops in our monster Super Trucks.

Angling Club Lax-a

Angling Club Lax-á is Iceland’s largest fishing and hunting outfitter, with over 40 exclusively leased salmon rivers and beats.

Arctic Adventures

We are an adventure company based in South Iceland and Reykjavík offering one of the largest selection of adventure trips in Iceland. From our great rafting trips to lava caving, trekking and glacier hikes to self drive super jeep tours, winter expeditions and everything in between.

Arctic Trucks Experience

Arctic Trucks Experience offers private tours in Iceland on modified Arctic Trucks where you can do the driving.

Buggyadventures

Want to feel young and fresh again? Then come Buggy with us! It will add years to your life from all the laughter and fun you will have.

Citywalk

Two hour long, free / tip-based walking tour around Reykjavík, with 25 year old Marteinn Briem.

Cultural Companion Birna

Birna's knowledge of the cultural dimensions of both country and people, along with her connections to the very hub of downtown Reykjavík make her the perfect companion.

Elding Northern Lights Cruise

On the tour we will take you out into the dark blue yonder of Faxaflói bay in search for the mystical phenomenon we call the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.

Elding Whale Watching

The original whale watching family in Reykjavik. Whale watching from Reykjavik is operated all year round with the high season being from April – October.

Experience Iceland

Experience Iceland is a fully licensed private superjeep tour operator service. We aim to service smaller groups on tours out of Reykjavík in a luxurious super jeep and into activity if preferred.

FAB Travel

We offer a wide range of high quality services for travelers from all over the world. Scheduled day tours from Reykjavík and longer tours.

Fjallabak Adventure Trekking Company

Fjallabak is a family run travel agency who will make you realise an unforgettable experience in the Icelandic nature.

Funtravel

Fun Travel is an independent tour operator and a destination management company.

Go Fishing Iceland

Go Fishing specializes in first class tours for both individuals and small groups of anglers who prefer a personal service.

Golf Iceland

Playing golf at midnight and surrounded by lava fields might sound too strange to be true. Not in Iceland! Playing golf in Iceland is an adventure you'll remember for a lifetime.

Gudmundur Jónasson

For more than 70 years, our company has hosted travelers from all corners of the world.

Harpa Yacths

Harpa Yachts offer both tailor made and scheduled yacht cruises, from the old harbor in Reykjavík.

Hidden World Walks

Hafnarfjördur is famous for having one of Iceland’s largest settlements of elves, dwarfs and other mystical beings, which (translating from the Icelandic) are collectively called ‘Hidden Folk’.

IceBlue

We offer a variety of tours, two hour, half day and a full day, or few days tours. We have variety of predefined tours but we can tailor make tours for you, anything is possible.

Iceland in a Day

Iceland in a Day focuses on privately tailored super jeep day tours and multi-day tours, where no two tours are the same.

Iceland Rovers

We offer adventures into the fascinating nature of Iceland - we have served thousands of happy customers and helped them explore the natural and unspoiled beauty of Iceland.

Iceland Travel

We are a leading travel agency, tour operator and destination management company (DMC) in Iceland, offering a wide range of high quality services for travelers from all over the world

Icelandic Riding

Icelandic Riding is a small horse rental in Reykjavík. Our aim is to deliver authentic experiences to all those who like to try the Icelandic horse.

Ísafold Travel Service

Ísafold Travel is a licensed tour operator and destination management company in Iceland, founded in 1997. We provide unforgettable Highland tours in Iceland, for groups and individual travelers.

Kidafell farmhouse

We have horses of different temperaments, enabling both novices and experienced riders to have an enjoyable and safe ride.

Lisa Day Tours

We offer private tours for small groups. Our goal is to introduce Icelandic culture to our guests by meeting up with local people.

Mount Úlfarsfell

"Úlfarsfell" is lower than its sister "Esja" but offers just as an impressive view over the city.

Movement Medicine

Movements Medicine dance practice is one way of connecting the mind with the free flowing breath and the structure of the body.

Nordic Visitor

We offer a great variety of day tours in Iceland as well as private-guided super-jeep tours, snowmobiling on glaciers, snorkeling, kayaking, ATV tours, lava caving, rafting, glacier hiking and climbing

Northern Lights on Videy Island

Videy offers you a change in pace for your northern lights expedition.

Reykjavík Bike Tours

Your visit to Reykjavik is incomplete without traveling along the city’s coastline by bike. You don't just see the essential “must-see” sights of Iceland’s capital; you'll hear the stories that bring these places to life!

Reykjavík Escape

Reykjavík Escape is a live escape game where groups of 3-5 people are locked in a room filled with riddles, puzzles and clues.

Reykjavík Sailors

Reykjavík by the sea with our Whale Watching tours, Northern Lights by boat and Sea Angling including the taste of the catch of the day.

Reykjavik Walk

An entertaining, educating and easy walking tour in downtown Reykjavík, through it’s past and present.

Sea Angling

This tour is a must do for first timers and experienced fishermen alike. Just breathing in the fresh air, being out in the open ocean and catching your first fish of the day make this an experience you'll never forget.

Smára Tívolí Amusement Park

Smáratívolí guarantees a great time for all ages in a setting that has not been seen in Iceland before.

Sólhestar

Explore the Icelandic nature on the sturdy and sure footed Icelandic horse. Sólhestar offers a variety of riding tours for absolute beginners and more experienced riders.

Special Tours - Wildlife Adventures

With Special Tours you can enjoy a variety of different adventure tours!

SuperTravel Iceland

We offer a selection of private (exclusive) and group activity holidays, short breaks,luxury weekends and day trips with a seasonal theme.

Teitur Travel

We are a bus and coach service company with great experience in planning short and long tours around Iceland, for Icelanders as well as foreign tourists.

The Icelandic Horse

We offer riding tours in Reykjavík, but still in a country side landscape with a view over Reykjavík and the mountains surrounding the city.

Thors Travel

We specialize in private tours both highlights of Reykjavík and day tours out from Reykjavík. Cruise ship passengers are very welcome to order tours, also stopover passengers in Keflavík airport.

Trek

We are a fully licensed tour operator and travel agency with a focus on an eco-friendly adventure tourism in Iceland.

Wanderlust

We organise walks and hikes off the beaten path in the unique landscape of Iceland. Framed by glaciers, volcanoes and spectacularly varied landscapes, which are virtually in the making.

Amazing Tours - Atours

We can arrange a car for your self drive tours or guide you into Iceland’s untouchable nature and exciting places with our Super Jeep Tours.

Anna Tours

Guided nature walks in Mosfellsbær countryside, only a 15 minute drive from Reykjavík.

Arctic Exposure Photo Tours

Arctic Exposure is a leading Photography Travel Agency in Iceland. We focus on providing quality Photo Tours for Photographers of all skill levels.

Bike Company

Specializing in mountain biking adventures, Bike Company is a licensed travel agency in Iceland.

Bustravel Iceland

Guided tours are definitely one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways to spend your Iceland vacation, especially with Bustravel Golden Circle Tour.

Courtship in the City

Courthship in The City is is ideal for those who want to learn about the dating- and clubbing- jungle from a local.

Eldhestar

Eldhestar takes pleasure in showing visitors to Iceland the unique wilderness with a horse.

Elding Puffin Watching

The puffin watching tour commences at our ticket office by Ægisgarður pier in the Old Harbour in downtown Reykjavík.

Elliðaárdalur Valley

Elliðaárdalur is a very popular destination with the locals for all sorts of outdoor activity, including jogging, biking, walking and playing.

Extreme Iceland

Extreme Iceland is an all around fully licensed travel agency where the customer and the Icelandic nature are put into the foreground.

Family Amusement Park

We have something for everyone, both individuals as well as groups. Action-packed fields where strategic games can be played that test the player's resourcefullness, creativity and amusement to the fullest.

Fly Fishing in Iceland

We offer day trips to high quality waters in the Reykjavik area. Our trips are ideal for those that are looking for a short break from Reykjavik.

Gateway to Iceland

We invite you to embark on a journey to see the wonders of Iceland. With its rough landscapes and vast wilderness, crystal clear air and incredible photographic wonders, Iceland provides visitors a chance to see something different around every corner.

Go Running Tours Reykjavik

A local runner guides guests through their home city while sharing facts, history, and anecdotes with the participants.

Gray Line Iceland

Gray Line Iceland, a leading tour specialist, is a fully licensed coach company, tour operator and travel agency that has been operating with great reputation for more than 25 years.

Guide to Iceland

Guide to Iceland is an one-stop shop for information, tours, cars, full holidays, accommodation, and tips and guidance for both the big attractions and the most hidden gems Iceland has to offer. Our website unites over 1000 independent travel operators making us the largest collaboration for Icelandic travel services worldwide

Helo - Helicopter Service of Iceland

Helo offers various helicopter services and adventures all over Iceland´s exceptional nature, specializing in sightseeing- and private flights.

HL Adventure

HL Adventure is a Destination Management Company (DMC) and an authorized tour operator based in Iceland.

Iceland Horizon

We are a small company which takes pride in offering either private, tailor-made or specialist tours. We have 20 years of experience in this kind of tourism.

Iceland Luxury Tours

We are a family-run company which offers personal and premium travel services with focus on private day tours, multi-day tours, activities and accommodation.

Iceland Sightseeing

Iceland Sightseeing is a fully licensed and insured, inland traveling company, founded in 2011, that offers private sightseeing tours for smaller groups.

Icelandic Culture & Craft - Knitting Workshop

This three-hour workshop is designed for knitters of all levels and ages – beginner to advanced. The workshops are lead by the qualified crafts teacher ragnheiður jóhannsdóttir, a highly skilled knitter with over 40 years of experience.

IceVisit

We specialize in customize your tour in Iceland to suit your specific tour duration, tour budget and any special custom requirements that you may have to ensure your dream vacation.

Íshestar

We offer multi-day tours that require good riding skills and knowledge of horses, while our day tours with departure from our Riding Centre, are well suited for people with little or none riding experience.

Kópavogskirkja Church

The Church of Kópavogar stands on Borgarholt Hill, offering great views over the city and surrounding area.

Luxury Adventures

We are a family-run tour operator that organizes tailor made luxury travel for discriminating visitors; individuals and groups.

Mountain Taxi

We offer a range of fabulous scheduled and bespoke tours and activities, including snowmobiling, helicopter flights, ATV tours and fishing to explore and enjoy the wild and rugged beauty of Iceland’s spectacular nature.

Nature Explorer

We have decades of experience of travelling safely in the Icelandic wilderness. Our team consists of mountain search and rescue volunteers, experienced hiking guides, super-jeep experts and responsible adventurers.

Nordurflug Helicopter Tours

Our helicopter charters are ideal for experiencing some of Iceland's most stunning locations.

Pink Iceland

Pink Iceland is Iceland's first and foremost gay and lesbian owned and operated travel and wedding expert.

Reykjavik by boat

This 1 ½ hours guided tour on a traditional Icelandic fishing boat offers a unique view of Reykjavík from the sea, where you encounter its bird-life, art and Icelandic maritime culture.

Reykjavík Excursions

Reykjavík Excursions was founded in 1968 and has since then been the leading organizer in tourism in Iceland, both for individuals and groups.

Reykjavík Sightseeing

Reykjavik Sightseeing is a leading operator of guided day tours in Reykjavik city and the southwest of Iceland. The company is owned and run by pioneers in the Icelandic travel industry.

Safaris

We are a privately owned adventure company with many years of experience and a fine reputation in operating and planning adventure and convoy tours in Iceland.

Season Tours in Reykjavík

Among the tours we offer is the Food and Saga Dinner Tour, where Chef Tyffi caters to your needs. He will take you to the gourmet shops in Reykjavík and then to his home for a great gourmet dinner.

Snaeland Grimsson

Snaeland Grimsson Travel was founded more than 50 years ago by one of the leading pioneers in bus rental and organized tours around Iceland.

Solstice Tours

We are a small company offering private, tailor made tours or predefined day tours.

Sports Diving School of Iceland

We offer both day tours and multiple day tours to Iceland´s most facinating and unique underwater sights.

Sway Reykjavik Segway tours

A Segway tour is one of the most exciting ways to see the Reykjavík scenery.

The Angling Club of Reykjavík

The Angling Club of Reykjavík has a variety of trout and salmon fishing permits available in all price catagories, for many of the most prominent fishing spots in Iceland.

The Reykjavik Bar Crawl

In the 3 hour Reykjavík Bar Crawl you will experience all the best of Reykjavík by night.

Touris Tours

We specialize in mountain and glacier touring, in the magnificent highlands of Iceland as a Super Jeep safari and also offers bus tour arrangements for large and small groups

Tuk Tuk Tours

We at Tuk Tuk Tours are on a mission to create an alternative way to enjoy Reykjavik in a more fun, intimate and eco-friendly fashion.

Whales of Iceland

Whales of Iceland is the largest whales exhibition of its kind in the world. Close to downtown, this is truly an immersive exhibit that will take you into the world of the whales.

Vakinn – Quality and Eco Label

Visit Reykjavík is approved by Vakinn

Vakinn is the official quality and eco label for Icelandic tourism.

Explore & Discover

Next to nature

Health & Wellness

Reykjavík's Culture Scene

Endless Nights & Northern Lights

Activities in Reykjavik & Iceland

4x4 Adventures

Ambassador Whale Watching

Archery Centre

Arctic Running

Biking Viking

Chocolate Trailer

Creative Iceland

Elding Imagine Peace Tower Tour

Elding Whale Watching

Eskimos Iceland

f-stop Tours

FishIceland

Friend in Iceland

Gavia Travel

Goecco Outdoor Adventure

Green Energy Travel

Harpa Guided Tour – Behind the scenes

Hey Iceland

IC Iceland

Iceland in a Box: A Visual Tour

Iceland Photo Tours

Iceland South Coast Travel

Icelandic Mountain Guides

Into the Glacier

KGB Tours

Laxnes Horse Farm

Meet the Natives

Mountaineers of Iceland

Nightlife Friend

Northern Lights in Reykjavik

Réttir - Annual Sheep Roundup!

Reykjavík City Library Dark Deeds Walk

Reykjavík Literary Walk

Reykjavik Viking Adventure

Salt Eldhus

Shuttle Service

Snorri Travel

Solveig's Reykjavik Culture Kitchen

Superjeep

Tales from Iceland

The Bowling Palace

The Reykjavik Food Walk

Travelade

Viking Horses

Your Friend in Reykjavík

Activity Iceland

Angling Club Lax-a

Arctic Adventures

Arctic Trucks Experience

Buggyadventures

Citywalk

Cultural Companion Birna

Elding Northern Lights Cruise

Elding Whale Watching

Experience Iceland

FAB Travel

Fjallabak Adventure Trekking Company

Funtravel

Go Fishing Iceland

Golf Iceland

Gudmundur Jónasson

Harpa Yacths

Hidden World Walks

IceBlue

Iceland in a Day

Iceland Rovers

Iceland Travel

Icelandic Riding

Ísafold Travel Service

Kidafell farmhouse

Lisa Day Tours

Mount Úlfarsfell

Movement Medicine

Nordic Visitor