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Travel Service in Southeast Iceland
All Around The Year Since 1994!
From Coast
To Mountains
Travel
service
is a small
tour company located in Öræfi in southeast Iceland, at
the foot of Vatnajökull, the largest glacier in Europe (see
info about Oraefi).
FROM COAST TO MOUNTAINS organizes wide
range of tours for people who wish to experience the
glaciers and mountains of southeast Iceland on foot all
year round!
To achieve this, we hike, climb or
ski, with aid of crampons, snowshoes or skis, and the
destination can be a short visit to glacier close to the
hotel (Ice Tour) or full day
ski ascent of Iceland’s highest
mountain, Hvannadalshnúkur (Hvannadalshnukur),
or something between!
In the summer we concentrate on the
increasingly popular bird watching trip with tractor drawn hay wagon to Ingólfshöfði
Nature Reserve (Ingolfshofdi). We take 4-5 thousand people there each summer. We
offer an easy Kayak Tour
on the waters of Hofsnes
also.
Einar on Hvannadalshnúkur for the 222nd time on 10th of
May
2007.
- My name
is Einar Rúnar Sigurðsson and I manage the tour
company "From Coast To Mountains" with
my father, Sigurður Bjarnason and my wife Matthildur Unnur
Þorsteinsdóttir. We live on
the farm Hofsnes in the county Öræfi, but
Öræfi has been the residence of my family for
at least 600 years. My father started to do a bird watching trip to Ingólfshöfði in 1991, when he
gave up farming and found a new use for his hay
cart. On Saturday before Pentecost
1994 I started to guide people up to the top of
Iceland's highest mountain, Hvannadalshnúkur.
Now I have been 244 times on the
top of Hvannadalshnúkur (since 30th of May 2009) wich
is a world record. See Journals...
Since 2000 when I married Matthildur Unnur (or Matta) she has
been doing more and more of the trips to Ingólfshöfði, but at the same time my
father Sigurður is retiring. He is now over 76 years old so he deserves to
take it easy. But at the same time the third generation is starting to work in
the company. Our oldest son Aron Franklín (18 years old) is helping me and Matta
doing the trips .
Please contact us
* Hofsnes - 785 Öræfi -
Iceland
(
+(354) 8940894
Email info@hofsnes.com
Web site www.hofsnes.com
To find out where Öræfi is in the world, how
to get here and links
to other travel services
and accommodations here in Öræfi in southeast Iceland please go to
www.oraefi.is
For flying one way and driving back to Reykjavík go to
www.eagleair.is
For all kind of service all over Iceland try
www.marketiceland.com
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