Ice Cave Tour in Vatnajökull

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About the tour

In autumn each year we start looking for the ice caves for the winter. Normally we find caves in several different locations on the south side of Vatnajökull, sometimes they are special immediately and sometimes not so initially but become very special in the right light and conditions.

Some caves we find are very stable and we can go in there in any weather, but others are less safe and we might not even go there at all, even if they are very beautiful. Some caves are only accessible in below zero conditions for example if there is water in the floor that needs to be frozen to walk into the cave.

The cave we choose from day to day depends on the time of winter, time of day, weather, and other conditions at the time. We always go to the most interesting cave available at each time. We normally go into one cave per trip.
We do not only look at the size of the ice cave but the beauty and colors, the ice caves are normally from 30-100 meters long.

*The duration of the tour depends on several things, how far we need to drive, how far we have to walk, and how complicated the ice cave is (sometimes there is only a few meters walk from the car to the cave, other times it can be up to 1 km).

Local Guide was the first ice cave tour operator in Iceland, we started visiting the ice caves for the first time around 20 years ago.
In that time we have gathered a lot of knowledge on how to get our clients to the best available cave each day as the conditions of the caves change daily.

If you are looking for a photography tour of the ice caves next winter we do offer private tours, send us an email at info@localguide.is for information!

Due to the popularity of the ice caves you can expect groups from other companies inside the cave at the same time on our public ice cave tours.

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