Golden Circle & Snorkeling at Silfra | Free Photos & Small Group

Tour Description

Your day starts when your professional and friendly guide picks you up on a comfortable minibus to go snorkeling in Silfra and explore the famous Golden Circle. And get free underwater GoPro photos by email afterwards!

Silfra Fissure

The Silfra Fissure is located in Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Once our minibus arrives there, you will listen as your friendly and experienced certified PADI Dive Master guide provides a safety and tour briefing. Later, you will receive all of the necessary equipment for snorkeling in Silfra, including neoprene hoods and gloves, a thermal undersuit, a drysuit and, of course, a mask, snorkel and fins. This equipment will keep you floating throughout your time in the fissure, as well as offering a protection against the cold glacier water. Once in the water, your eyes will meet the incredible shades of blue so prevalent in the fissure, as well as the natural underwater flora of canyon walls.

As you are swimming you will have the opportunity to move across continents, as you will be swimming between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, which is one of Thingvellir’s most famous characteristics. You will meet Silfra Hall, which is the widest section on the fissure and then the majestic Silfra Cathedral, its deepest section. Even more, the stunning shallow oasis will be presented before your eyes at the end, “the Real Blue Lagoon”.

Upon exiting the water, you’ll be invited to warm up with hot chocolate and cookies with your friendly guide. Then, after the tour is over you will receive the photos in your email to remember all the happy memories created with old and new friends.

Thingvellir National Park

We visit the place where the two tectonic plates, the North American and the Eurasian plate, are splitting and moving away from each other. Few places in the world offer a better and clearer view of this massive geographic activity. The biggest natural lake in Iceland is also located at Thingvellir National Park and hosts a great variety of fish and bird life. Thingvellir is also an important place for Icelandic national history: at Thingvellir Icelanders founded their parliament in 930 AD where the chieftains had their annual meeting every summer. The name “Thingvellir” translates to “Parliament Plains”.

Gullfoss waterfall

The melting water from Iceland’s second biggest glacier, Langjökull, falls into a deep canyon forming the majestic “Golden Falls”. On a sunny day, you can see the glacier Langjökull in the distance and enjoy a rainbow in the mist of the waterfall, an Instagram blockbuster waiting to happen!

Geysir geothermal area

The Geysir geothermal area hosts many of colorful hot springs and two geysers, erupting hot springs. One is called “Geysir” and name giving for all the geysers in the world. Today, however, it erupts very seldom. The other geyser is called “Strokkur” and erupts every 5 minutes up to 40 meters.

Don’t over think it! Come with the trolls to explore the most famous Icelandic route – the Golden Circle – with our local favorites and the amazing sights of Silfra Fissure in the world’s clearest waters, one of the major wonders to be found in Iceland.

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Important information. To be able to do this tour, you have to comply the following requirements:

-Have read and signed this Snorkeling Medical Statement – click here. We recommend that you bring the form already printed out and signed, but you can sign the form at the meeting location if not.
-Be comfortable in water and be able to swim.
-Communicate in English at the time of the tour.
-Be physically fit.
-Not be pregnant.
-You must be ready to wear a drysuit tight at the seals to protect your body from the cold water.
-You must be a minimum of 150 cm and 45kg and a maximum of 200 cm and 120 kilos in height and weight.
-You must be a maximum of 69 years of age at the time of the tour to participate in this tour. Also, if you will be 60 years of age or over at the time of the tour, you need a medical waiver signed by a doctor, available on page 2 of this Snorkeling Medical Statement – click here.
-You must be a minimum of 12 years of age to participate in this tour.
-Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied in the water by a parent or adult guardian booked on the same tour.