There is nothing better than riding the Icelandic horse along the soft sandy beaches. After getting ready at horse farm base, we will start this 25 km tour on the beach, near the small village Þorlákshöfn. From here we ride along the beach for about 3 km, by the small village Eyrarbakki, and through the meadows, Ölfusengjar, to our home base. This is a perfect opportunity to test the famous TÖLT over a long distance and enjoy the scenic landscape and ocean view. At the end of the tour, you will enjoy a homemade soup and bread at Sólhestar base, before a drop-off at your hotel. We ride in small groups and offer personal and friendly service! Total tour duration is 8-9 hours with pick up, without pickup 6-7 hours and 4-5 hours riding time, riding skills for this tour: medium and experienced riders
NOTE: We only have picked up from Hotels, guesthouse, and BSI Bus terminal Reykjavik.
Virpi62 Southern Finland, Finland –
“Wonderful icelandic horse riding”
5 of 5 bubbles Reviewed May 26, 2016 via mobile
I enjoyed so much the riding tours (Beach riding and Ölfus special) with Solhestar’s wonderful icelandic horses. The service of my riding guides Linnea, Freddie and Alexandra and the whole Solhestar team was excellent. You get individual service and don’t need to suffer big masses as the groups are always small. I was in fact lucky to have individual tours. Very relaxing days, some of my best riding experiences.
Amanda8706 –
“Amazing experience!! Beach riding tour”
5 of 5 bubbles Reviewed June 16, 2016 via mobile
I booked this tour on a whim when I got to Reykjavik and I’m so glad that I did! I did the Beach Riding tour, and it was a great experience. It was a small group of 4 people, and our guide Alexandra was awesome! She gave pointers throughout, and told us all about Icelandic horses. The owners picked me up at my hotel, fed the group soup after our ride, and dropped me off afterward. Lovely!
It says it on the website but not on the brochure that I found in the tourist info Centre – I would say the beach ride is definitely not for beginners.
Visited June 2016
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Dorthe25 Vejle, Denmark –
“Beach Riding”
5 of 5 bubbles Reviewed July 7, 2016 via mobile
Thanks a lot for a brilliant holiday memori -we never will forget! Perfect service and fantastic horses. Our Tour guide Alaxandra was excellent… Thanks for everything -you guys made our day❤️
Visited July 2016
Lydia S –
One amazing tour, one not so great tour”
3 of 5 star Reviewed July 14, 2016
I have mixed emotions about this company. I am thirteen, an intermediate rider in the US, and I went on one tour with my mom and one with my mom and dad. The first day, my mom and I did the beach ride, and it was absolutely amazing and perfect. Our tour guide was named Linnea, and she was really great and nice. The scenery was gorgeous, it was even nicer than the photos on the website, and I adored the horse I rode, named Alsaela. This tour was the highlight of my trip to Iceland, better than I ever could have imagined. The next day, my parents and I went on the three hour tour (which is actually about one hour long). Although the website specifically says under the tour description, “We ride in small groups and offer personal and friendly service” there were seventeen people in our group and pretty much all that the tour guide said was stuff like, “we’re going to faster now!”. The group was so large, most of us couldn’t even hear what she was saying. The group broke into two parts when another tour guide joined us, fast and slow. The fast group went on a loop through the fields behind the stables and it was shaky and very, very fast. The slow group walked a bit in the back fields, then turned around and walked back the same way. So the tour was either a boring tour, or a hold-on-for-you-life tour. If I had not gone on the beach ride tour the previous day with a tour guide who actually assisted us, I would have had no idea how to tölt since the tour guides for this tour offered absolutely no help. On a side note, a little girl in another group fell off of her horse twice in a few minutes because her saddle simply slipped right off while she was going down a hill, which really scared me. I do recommend the beach ride, if you are lucky enough to end up with a combination of great weather, a great horse, and a great guide like we did, it will amazing. Overall though, this company did not exactly live up to our expectations.
Visited July 2016
hercor Linz, Austria –
“The beach ride last week – was a dream – becoming real!When we come again to iceland – we are coming again to Sohestar!”
5 of 5 star Reviewed July 25, 2016
Wonderful, perfect horses!
A very nice, sympatic guide!r
Great tour!
It was very nice to eat soup together after the tour!
We really loved it!
Everything was perfect!!!
We enjoyed it so much!!! The horses, the People, …..
Visited July 2016
shana c Long Beach, California –
Beautiful horses and scenery”
5 of 5 star Reviewed October 23, 2016
It has been a dream of mine to ride an icelandic horse! They are the most beautiful creatures, with such tame personalities.
My husband and I originally booked the beach riding tour. However, the weather was terrible the week we came and we were informed the tide was too high and it was too risky. They didn’t have to, but they upgraded us to another package, which was a 6 hour tour, lunch with some lamb soup and a history lesson on the icelandic horses.
My horse was named Diana Ross, it was her first tour (if you could believe that). I was a bit nervous because she didn’t know the tour and I don’t have a lot of experience with horses, but after some bonding time we understood each other. Our tour guide was a lovely girl who actually went back to Denmark the following day, she let us trout and run from time to time.
I think my favorite moment was when we were riding through the farmlands and some horses were being herded back to the farm there were at least a dozen of them that came running right past us on the path, it was an unbelievable experience.
we will definitely recommend everyone and will be back ourselves!
Visited October 2016