Destinations | Iceland

Experience Iceland in Windstar Style

Windstar’s Around Iceland cruise circumnavigates one of the most diverse and dramatic island nations on earth. You’ll hear sagas of the Viking settlers, search for humpback whales and soak in thermal baths.

Viking settlers brought horses to the island between 860 and 935 CE. It’s a unique breed and Icelanders are especially proud of it. It’s considered the purest breed of horse in the world.

Go inside a glacier for a view from the inside out. A guided tour takes you inside the Langiokull Glacier. You’ll journey deep into a tunnel of this 31 mile long, up to 12 miles wide and 1,903 feet glacier.

Make the Blue Lagoon a key stop on your itinerary. Bathe in the lagoon’s milky turquoise waters and feel the rejuvenating effects of the geothermal waters improve your skin.

Overnight in Seydisfjordur, a scenic town at the end of a fjord, a beautiful waterway surrounded by mountains. Make your way to Hengifoss Waterfall. Or stroll the quaint the town and get to know the locals.

Join Windstar’s exclusive snowmobile & helicopter adventure excursion. Flyover Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland’s 4th largest glacier, and push the throttle of your snowmobile as you ride the glacier.

Windstar’s Around Iceland cruise circumnavigates one of the most diverse and dramatic island nations on earth. You’ll hear sagas of the Viking settlers, search for humpback whales and soak in thermal baths.

Viking settlers brought horses to the island between 860 and 935 CE. It’s a unique breed and Icelanders are especially proud of it. It’s considered the purest breed of horse in the world.

Go inside a glacier for a view from the inside out. A guided tour takes you inside the Langiokull Glacier. You’ll journey deep into a tunnel of this 31 mile long, up to 12 miles wide and 1,903 feet glacier.

Make the Blue Lagoon a key stop on your itinerary. Bathe in the lagoon’s milky turquoise waters and feel the rejuvenating effects of the geothermal waters improve your skin.

Overnight in Seydisfjordur, a scenic town at the end of a fjord, a beautiful waterway surrounded by mountains. Make your way to Hengifoss Waterfall. Or stroll the quaint the town and get to know the locals.

Join Windstar’s exclusive snowmobile & helicopter adventure excursion. Flyover Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland’s 4th largest glacier, and push the throttle of your snowmobile as you ride the glacier.

Get Closer to Iceland

Simultaneously young and old, hot and cold, Iceland is a mass of contradictions. Nestled near the Arctic Circle yet warmed by the Gulf Stream, its ports never freeze, yet glaciers drape majestically over volcanos, valleys, fjords and shorelines. And water – liquid water – is everywhere, falling, bubbling, steaming, spouting and fueling the country’s 100% renewable energy grid. Come name one of the many unnamed waterfalls that thunder off cliffs (Perhaps Thorskeggfoss, Thor’s Beard?).

Go Where No Other Cruise Can Go

Remote villages, pristine waterways, tiny islands covered in eider ducks, Arctic terns and other seabirds. These are just a few reasons why Iceland is best seen on a Windstar ship. We take you places most cruise ships can’t go: to narrow fjords, islands where puffins outnumber people, and deep into an interior filled with waterfalls, geysers, ice caverns, volcanoes and alfhol (elf houses). And while most cruises take you to just one or two ports in Iceland, on Windstar you can visit half a dozen, as well as spectacular Pingvellir National Park.