14 Our trips are bound by our Booking Terms & Conditions - for details visit discover-the-world.co.uk/educationalvisitsIcelandThe adventurous side! To help add real value to your trip here are a few of our most popular optional activities. Amazing Incentive Race The trip starts with a race through the 'greenhouse' town of Hveragerdi. See hot springs, solfataras and naturally heated greenhouses used to grow many exotic plants from coffee to bananas. Participants are split into small groups, which rush across the town solving clues, by interacting with the locals and overcoming trials in a race where only team spirit and co-operation can win the day. After the race everyone has the chance to shoot 100m over the Varma River via zip line. The programme finishes with a swim in the local geothermal pool. Glacier Walk This popular trip takes you on an exploration of the glacier tongue of Solheimajokull on the Myrdalsjokull ice field. Here natural ice sculptures, ridges and deep crevasses await your discovery. The experienced glacier guide will teach you how to use basic ice equipment, crampons and ice axes.River Rafting Start your adventure on the glacier fed Hvita River. Pass through stunning canyons as you negotiate adrenaline pumping waves and rapids. You'll also have the option to jump from the cliffs into the river and who can resist swimming in a glacial river in Iceland?Snorkelling The Silfra lava fissure is a spectacular underwater world to explore. Put on a dry suit and snorkel over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the divergent Eurasian and North American tectonic plates are pulling apart at a rate of around 2.5cm a year. With stunning geographical features the crystal clear water offers visibility of up to 100m, some of the clearest water in the world. Trips are guided by fully qualified instructors.Lava Tube Caving Enter through a narrow cave into a world of fascinating colours where surreal formations were created when surface lava hardened whilst fluid lava continued to flow in tubes underneath. See also stalactites and a variety of other rock formations.Lots more activities are available on our website including whale watching, northern lights tours by superjeep and icecap tours.Nature Baths© Elding © Arctic Adventures

talk to the experts 01737 214 214 15IcelandOff the beaten trackIf you have been to Iceland before and love it as much as we do why not get off the beaten track and let your students experience another side to the country? Full details and further itineraries are shown on our website however here are some of the highlights for our 10 day tour which circumnavigates the island.Dettifoss Europe's most powerful waterfall, is still eroding its dramatic 20km gorge.Myvatn Explore Lake Myvatn and its surrounds, one of Iceland's most remarkable regions, for its diversity of volcanic features and its natural beauty, varied flora and birdlife. See moon-like pseudocraters, giant lava pillars set amongst a labyrinth of caves and an explosion crater over 1km in diameter, plus many other fascinating features.Nature BathsAt the end of the day, take a soak in the warm waters of the 'Blue Lagoon of the north'.Whale Watching Visit Husavik, an attractive fishing town on Skjalfandi Bay, which has developed a thriving tourism industry based around whale watching. A visit to the Whale Museum is recommended, naturally followed by a whale watching trip!East Fjords Drive through the stunning East Fjords and see how Ice Age glaciers have scoured U-shaped and hanging valleys, whose sides are stepped with layer upon layer of tertiary basalt lavas, intersected by dykes. In Breiddalur, the glaciers cut through one of the ancient volcanic systems that produced much of this lava, exposing bands of lighter rhyolite and a line of volcanic plugs along the summit ridge.As well as those highlights mentioned on page 13 you can experience the following:Outline Itinerary Departures: year roundDay 1 Fly UK to Keflavik / Blue Lagoon / Perlan viewing platformDay 2 Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Station / Kerid / Gullfoss / Geysir / ThingvellirDay 3 Seljalandsfoss / Stora Dimon / Skogar / Solheimajokull glacier walk / Reynishverfi / DyrholaeyDay 4 Eldhraun / Skaftafell National ParkDay 5 Oraefajokull / Jokulsarlon / Hofn / Breiddalur (East Fjords region)Day 6 Egilsstadir / Lake Myvatn / Namaskard / Viti / Blue Lagoon of the NorthDay 7 Husavik / Tjornes Coast / Asbyrgi / Dettifoss Day 8 Hverfjall / Godafoss / AkureyriDay 9 Oxnadular / Vatnsdalsholar / Borgarfjordur / ReykjavikDay 10 Whale Watching or explore Reykjavik before returning to the UKDettifossLake Myvatn