Icepedition’s Unique Premise

Please join me and Icepedition in the Summer of 2010!

 Our itinerary combines highlights hand-picked after personally trying them in over 20 trips from the past decade, drawing on friendships I’ve found along the way, exposing our small group to culture and landscape adventure utterly unavailable through conventional tourism.

 With Icepedition, in 9 days- just five out of the office- you’ll delve deep into some Iceland’s most spectacular regions to places few foreigners have ventured, which Icelanders in their 1000 years of habitation have barely begun to explore themselves.

 Along the way you will learn from many remarkable Icelanders who will introduce you to the magic of their culture and landscape they most love themselves- experiences you can’t possibly find elsewhere.

 We’ll by-pass all the standard tourism clichés and get you into the most dynamic, most authentic insider’s highlights and experiences that you’d never find on your own for an insider's view of Iceland that I hope will change your life just a little, the way it has truly changed mine.

 Icepedition’s unique premise in adventure travel assures you’ll find the most distinctive, most transforming experiences without compromising individuality and personal style- by leveraging the advantages of a group’s buying power while allowing as little or as much independence as you prefer.

Icepedition provides a fully-booked escorted self-drive adventure that is easy to follow, featuring an opt-in/out itinerary combining:

   - all the advantages of having your own team of expert personal
     planners and tour escort (meet them in ‘About Us’)
   - unrestricted opportunity to request your own custom tour features
   - access to Iceland’s most distinctive highlights in lodging, food
     and adventure excursion
   - autonomy to decide your own level of independence
   - guided assistance along the way that you call on as much or as
     little as you prefer with loaner cell phones provided
   - pricing often lower that even the most conventional tour operators

Among regular breathtaking close-up encounters with icebergs, turquoise glaciers, crystal-clear spring-fed lakes, winding fjords, massive waterfalls, endless expanses of purple wildflowers, austere black sand deserts, not-so-ancient lava floes and even a few active volcanoes, you may do incredible things like:

  - venture deep into the austere wilderness to bathe in remote
     hot springs- one inside an active volcanic cone, another a few feet
     from the ocean- as well as in hot rivers and natural geothermal
     saunas
   - explore the basalt cliffs, black sands, stone arches and sea caves
     of a lava beach
   - look out from behind a massive seaside waterfall and see the
     landscape through the mists of crashing water
   - take a private boat excursion to an abandoned island of plunging sea
     cliffs, hosting an uncountable colony of enchanting puffins in late
     spring and early summer
   - trek across seaside sand dunes to discover wild bird nests on the
     ground and hold wild chicks in your hands
   - see day-old foals and lambs close-up
   - explore a 500 year-old fishing village surrounded by 10,000 islands
     and hosting an avant-garde art installation- actually a library of
     water from each of Iceland’s 12 glaciers- by a world-renowned New
     York artist whose work is centered in annual pilgrimages to Iceland
   - encounter 1000 year-old turf homesteads, fully-furnished inside as
     they have been inhabited for hundreds of years
   - take a boat trip across a lagoon jam-packed with icebergs at the
     foot of Europe’s largest glacier
   - go off-road horseback riding on golden sand beaches of a desolate
     peninsula on a strain of primordial horses now extinct in the
     outside world (beginners will learn how to ride an Icelandic horse)
   - learn about how to gather and savor wild foods from the countryside
   - build a bonfire with Siberian driftwood on a private black sand
     beach on the Arctic Ocean and have hot chocolate and home made
     Icelandic pancakes
   - encounter cutting edge art, design and world-class cuisine (some of
     the best in the world) in a private guided tour of Reykjavik's
     charming historic downtown harbor; even throw our own dinner party
     in a 19th century sea captain’s cottage
   - partake of Reykjavik's sophisticated shopping, music scene and
     legendary nightlife

2010’s Icepedition starts at $2495 and includes:

    - fully-booked self-drive itinerary with the Company founder leading
      the expedition
    - most meals
    - lodging in 3, 4 and 5-star hotels or their equivalent, with private
      bathrooms
    - several special guided events and excursions
    - use of one loaner cell phone per vehicle

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