Walking into the Ice Caves of Iceland

In January 2016, with a group of friends, I took my second trip to Iceland. Having already seen Iceland in summer, it were the winter attractions I was looking to check out and on top of that list was the Ice Cave tour. The idea of walking inside a glacier was fascinating in it selves, the pictures made the temptations grow even more.

When we booked the tour, the availability was such that we would have to drive 380 Kms in day to get to the starting point of the expedition by night to catch it that morning. With the extreme weather conditions in Iceland that was going to be a challenge, to which an email from the tour company added the extra spice. We received an email saying that the tour we booked was cancelled as the ice cave was filled with water and now we were upgraded to a tour which had a higher difficulty level and the ice cave we were going to had a waterfall flowing into it. We also had the choice to take a refund.

Now this left us with a lot of questions,if the ice caves can fill with water in matter of a day, then may be it can also fill while we were in it ? And what did higher difficulty level mean? At the same time we were dreamy, a cave with waterfall flowing into it, it’s not often that one gets a chance to see it, we jut can’t miss it. So we ignored our fears and decided to go ahead with the tour. And what followed is now shown in pictures.

We started early, and this is what Icelandic mornings look like.

We were given a harness, helmet and this was our ride.

We had to hike to the other side of this mountain.

The hike started.

The view from the top.

The bridges on the way.

There’s the cave we descended into.

Inside the cave.

Looking out from the cave.

As you can gather from the pictures, the experience was amazing. I think this trip should be on everyone’s bucket list. If you would like to travel to more such amazing places with me then Follow Me @unrealisback