You will need to book this event directly with the Peter McVerry Trust.   The deposit is EUR250,  and you will then to raise EUR2700 through fundraising for the Peter McVerry Trust.

Day 1     FLY TO REYKJAVIK

We board our international flight with Iceland Express, arriving into Keflavik Airport, where we are met by our Expedition leader and transfer to Landmannalaugar. We spend the night in Landmannalaugar.

Day 2     LANDMANNALAUGAR – HVANNGIL

Today we pack our things for the luggage transfer vehicle and leave the camp hiking with our day pack with a packed lunch for the day. We head south into the mountains where the trail takes us past small gorges, steaming hot springs and yellow mountain ridges. The view offers an incredible spectrum of colours. We will pass "Stórihver", a hot spring and almost the only green spot visible in the first day. We hike through a rough lavafield Laugahraun and up to the slopess of Brennisteinsalda. From there we hike downwards to our mountain hut at Hrafntinnusker.

From Hrafntinnusker we descend down into the gullies of Jökultungur with hundreds of steaming hot springs and mud pools. We will have fascinating views to the south over Álftavatn area (Swan Lake), the Mýrdalsjökull and Eyjafjallajökull glaciers. We will leave the rhyolie mountains and enter an area with dark palagonite mountains and glaciers. Here you will also notice a considerable increase in vegetation. We will reach Álftavatn Lake and head from there eastwards following the mountain road. Here we will need to cross the river Bratthálskvísl before we reach Hvanngil, our camp for the night.

Day 3     HVANNGILl - SKOFLUKLILF

We leave Hvanngil following the valley of Kaldaklof with its tiny streams and bright green moss. We then enter the black desert sands of Mæfifellssandur with views over Mýrdalsjokull Glacier, Iceland’s fourth biggest glacier, in the south and Torfajokull glacier, mountainous and colourful rhyolite and high temperature area, in the north. We reach Skófluklilf hut in the afternoon where we will set up our camp.

Day 4     SKOFLUKLILF - REYKJAVIK

Today we will do a morning walk by the Black Mountains, or Svörtufjöll, passing by small lakes of Hólmsárbotnar, which stand in a nice contrast with its colors of green and blue, between the dark lava hills to Strúslaug where we can have a bath in a natural hot pool. The pool was constructed by the farmers in the area and the temperature of the water can be regulated by a stone which can be removed and that increases or decreases the flow of the hot water. We hike back to Skófluklif were our bus waits us. We’ll travel alongside the Mýrdalsjokull glacier sitting on top of the volcano Katla to the village of Vík, Iceland's most southerly village. Outside of the village's lies a beautiful black beach and one of Europe's biggest arctic tern breeding grounds. After Vík we continue to the west along the coast to Reykjavík.

DAY 5    REYKJAVIK - DUBLIN

Our return flight from Reykjavik will depart mid afternoon.