TENTATIVE 2025 Itinerary Outline
Snorri Plus 2025: Itinerary Outline
As a participant of the Snorri Plus Program, you will arrive at Keflavík airport no later than early on the morning of Sunday, August 17, 2025, where you'll be greeted by Snorri Program staff. After a 45-minute transfer to Reykjavík, you'll get settled in a centrally located hotel and have some time to relax and recover from jet lag.
August 17-24
During your first few days in Iceland you will get a great introduction of the City of Reykjavík and participate in a cultural and educational program with presentations on various subjects such as Icelandic history, language, and culture, genealogy, geology, and society. You will receive your family tree and the program will contact your relatives and host a reception. You will visit museums, dine out, and discover Reykjavík by foot. You will experience Reykjavík's annual Culture Night, with the option of taking part in the Reykjavík Marathon with the group (3 or 10 km fun run, half a marathon or a full one), and end the night with a fireworks display.
The program will try to find visits to a company/organization that specializes in your field of work where you can make contacts and familiarize yourself with your Icelandic colleagues. If you are retired or do not wish to make such a connection the program can help you find contacts related to your interests.
You will also have some free time to explore on your own, and you will have the option of taking a day trip to see the Golden Circle for a modest additional fee. Other optional day trips may be added, time and interest allowing.
August 25-31
After breakfast, we'll check out of our hotel and depart Reykjavík on our week-long Adventure Tour around Iceland. The itinerary varies each year. For 2025, we will focus on eastern and northern Iceland. Stops may include Egilsstaðir, Seyðisfjörður, Mývatn, Húsavík, and/or Akureyri.* Of course, we will also visit Hofsós in beautiful Skagafjörður, home of the Icelandic Emigration Center. If you have relatives in any of the areas we visit, the program can help you get in touch with them, and we may be able to stop by some ancestral farms along the way if time allows.
August 31
We will spend our last night at a hotel in Keflavík, near the airport, and mark the end of the trip with a farewell dinner.
Departure from Keflavík International Airport is Monday, September 1, 2025. Transfer to the airport will be provided for all participants departing that day. Note that if you choose to extend your trip, you will be responsible for organizing and covering the cost of any and all transportation and accommodation after the end of the program.
*A more detailed itinerary will be provided as plans are finalized. Please note that this is just a rough outline and plans are subject to change depending on a variety of factors.
**If you wish to extend your trip we will help you make more plans, i.e. contact relatives and more.
As a participant of the Snorri Plus Program, you will arrive at Keflavík airport no later than early on the morning of Sunday, August 17, 2025, where you'll be greeted by Snorri Program staff. After a 45-minute transfer to Reykjavík, you'll get settled in a centrally located hotel and have some time to relax and recover from jet lag.
August 17-24
During your first few days in Iceland you will get a great introduction of the City of Reykjavík and participate in a cultural and educational program with presentations on various subjects such as Icelandic history, language, and culture, genealogy, geology, and society. You will receive your family tree and the program will contact your relatives and host a reception. You will visit museums, dine out, and discover Reykjavík by foot. You will experience Reykjavík's annual Culture Night, with the option of taking part in the Reykjavík Marathon with the group (3 or 10 km fun run, half a marathon or a full one), and end the night with a fireworks display.
The program will try to find visits to a company/organization that specializes in your field of work where you can make contacts and familiarize yourself with your Icelandic colleagues. If you are retired or do not wish to make such a connection the program can help you find contacts related to your interests.
You will also have some free time to explore on your own, and you will have the option of taking a day trip to see the Golden Circle for a modest additional fee. Other optional day trips may be added, time and interest allowing.
August 25-31
After breakfast, we'll check out of our hotel and depart Reykjavík on our week-long Adventure Tour around Iceland. The itinerary varies each year. For 2025, we will focus on eastern and northern Iceland. Stops may include Egilsstaðir, Seyðisfjörður, Mývatn, Húsavík, and/or Akureyri.* Of course, we will also visit Hofsós in beautiful Skagafjörður, home of the Icelandic Emigration Center. If you have relatives in any of the areas we visit, the program can help you get in touch with them, and we may be able to stop by some ancestral farms along the way if time allows.
August 31
We will spend our last night at a hotel in Keflavík, near the airport, and mark the end of the trip with a farewell dinner.
Departure from Keflavík International Airport is Monday, September 1, 2025. Transfer to the airport will be provided for all participants departing that day. Note that if you choose to extend your trip, you will be responsible for organizing and covering the cost of any and all transportation and accommodation after the end of the program.
*A more detailed itinerary will be provided as plans are finalized. Please note that this is just a rough outline and plans are subject to change depending on a variety of factors.
**If you wish to extend your trip we will help you make more plans, i.e. contact relatives and more.
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Read tips from former participants here.
