Langjökull

Beautiful views! We went in December and it was such a fun place for snow mobile. It is freezing up there so make sure to dress in layers!

Incredible experience unlike anything else. Being inside a glacier is surreal. A must try !

Did you know that Iceland has over 400 glaciers? Snowmobiling on the Langjokull glacier was quite a thrilling experience. It feels like a combination of a jetski and a quad bike but the terrain can be so unforgiving that your adrenaline really starts pumping once you start flying down steep slopes of the glacier. Feeling the ice cold rush of wind pierce through your helmet at high speeds felt amazing. It was a very unique experience and an activity I will remember forever. I'm an adrenaline junky so I welcome any activity like this.

Impressive network of tunnels built within the glacier. Unfortunately the glacier is dying and soon will not exist anymore due to the global warming. Visit it as long as you can.

Amazing snowmobiling experience with Mountaineers of Iceland. We both got to drive the snowmobile across ice and snow guided by very experienced guides and completely safe. They give you overalls, gloves, a buff and helmet, plus transport out to the glacier on the big 4WD bus.

With intotheglacier.is you could actually walk inside Langjokull, Iceland’s second largest glacier for about £140 each (kids free). You rendez vous a couple of hours north of the Golden Circle at quite a sunny campsite (camping did strike me as total madness in this country). You get into vehicle number 1 – an all-terrain bus, and travel over black volcanic scree for miles, up through a killer whale of a landscape. When you arrive at the cargo container “base” at the foot of the glacier, wild wind whips your hair and then tries to throw you on the ground. No one was drinking coffee at the outdoor benches provided but instead clinging to them in an attempt to stay upright. (What was it like in winter?) It was time to kit up into full-on arctic body suits. In a move which turned out to be fairly catastrophic, the boys refused the rubberised boots, assuming that their own were sufficiently waterproof. The next step is to board a semi-aquatic monster truck, whose wheels are only partially inflated so it that it can drive/skate easily over the ice. Then the fog descended and the glacier disappeared. We travelled for an (ice?) age over the glacier itself in a total white out before arriving at a small man-made opening where someone had tunnelled down into the ice, added a chapel and back-lit it in blue. Surreal is not the word. Ice spikes are added to shoes (which is as fiddly as it sounds). And it came to pass that normal walking boots were no match for foot-deep glacial puddles and frozen-toed children became less interested in the glowing ice walls around them. My boots were fine though and I loved it.

This was one of the few tours we booked in advance and it was definitely worth it. You can't access this area without a tour as you need a special truck drive onto the glacier. Into the Glacier Tours suits you up in their arctic onesie and takes you on a hike inside the glaciers. The ride to Langjokull was just as interesting as you ride this arctic monster truck that inflates and deflates its wheels to adjust its grip while driving on the ice. Incredible tour, highly recommend it.

Thriller snowmobile ride on the glacier with the ice cave walk was lovely! Must visit