Program and Travelplan

 

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Program overview

 

The official day of arrival is June 30th.
Participants have an option to arrive July 1st- July 2nd without missing out on the tours, but on Saturday July 3rd we will start our journey into the wilderness.
It will be possible to join in on the conference and exclude the trips because the conference is unusually long and involves travelling. Hopefully the conference will be a challenge for everyone without being too overwhelming.

The conference language will be multiple, Nordic, English and German but English translation will be offered. We can only accommodate 100 guests.

 

 

"The mission of the folk souls"

 

June 30th        Arrival. Accommodation will be at the Waldorfschool in Lækjarbotnar on mattresses in the                                            classrooms. Hotels are an option but costs are then extra.

 

July 1st             Glymur. Bus ride for about 45 minutes to Hvalfjörður/Whalefjorden.

                                A three-hour´s challenging walk in mountainous landscape with the highest waterfall in Iceland                                        about 200m, located in a beautiful canyon. For those not wanting to participate in this tour there                                   will be an option to go to the Blue lagoon and bathe. Admission not included, about 23                                   Euros.   Accommodation at the school.

 

July 2nd           A short bus trip to a valley called Reykjadalur or the “Smokey Valley”. We will hike to a warm                                   mountain river, surrounded by volcanoes and magnificent rock formations. Here you can                                            bathe!  Duration about 4 hours. Accommodation at the school. A short lecture about Odin, given                                   by Gudjon Arnason.

 

July 3rd            The group will be divided into two groups and both groups will do the same journey but in                                 different order. We will start our journey into the Icelandic highlands and head for                                                      Landmannalaugar, an area full of colourful rhyolite mountains in ochre, zinnober and green                                      colour tones. We will hike in the area, amongst obsidian lava rocks from the year 1480. We will                                       sleep in a mountain hut and/or in tents. The area has bathing options in hot rivers.

 

July 4th            We will continue our journey through black desert sands and low vegetation highlands. We will                                   drive out of the highlands onto highway one to the hostel Hvoll where we will meet up with the                                      other half of the group. Evening lecture about the godess Freyja, given by Gudjon Arnason.

 

July 5th            Now the group that started in Landmannlaugar will continue off to the National park, Skaftafell.                                   A sheltered forest with waterfalls by the edges of the glacier Vatnajokull. We will hike and see                                        Svartifoss. Then we will continue our journey to Jökulsárlón, a glacier lagoon with icebergs drifting                                in all different colurs of blue, white and grey. Accommodation will be at Hvoll.

 

July 6th           Arrival at Solheimar where the conference will take place.

 

July 7th - 11th     Conference - workshop's   and some afternoon outings.

 

July 12th          Bus tour to Thorsmork. A distant valley in between three glaciers, protected by glacier rivers.                                      Accommodation in huts. Hiking in magnificent landscape.

 

July 13th          A bus ride back to the school. Accommodation in the school like in the beginning.

 

July 14th          Journey home. Finale. In the days from July 3rd to July 6th the group will be divided into two                                          groups that will travel in two directions that will loop the same places. A professional guide will                                 be  in both buses.

 

Costs are 11.500 NOK covering food expenses, accommodation in the school, huts and camping and all the trips from the 30th till the 14th.
If one wishes to stay at a hotel those nights that it is possible in the program the costs for that are additional costs.
Currently prices for hotels range from 650 NOK for a single room to 800 NOK for a double room without a bath.
If one wishes to exclude the trips offered and only participate in the conference at Solheimar the costs are 7300 NOK including everything.

 

* Twenty-five places are reserved for youth, guests coming a long way or people with special circumstances for only 8500 NOK for the whole journey and 5000 NOK for just Solheimar.

 

Participants are self responsible for their insurances during the stay here in Iceland; that is each and every one is to arrange those matters before arriving.

 

All payments go to the Kulturabank in Norway. Trustees are Guðjón Árnason and Frode Barkved.