Iceland review - 2016, Side 108

SPECIAL PROMOTION
ADVENTURES
106 ICELAND REVIEW
Geo Travel is a tour operator in the Lake
Mývatn area. It was founded six years
ago, using only local guides who know the
lake, its stunning surroundings, and North
Iceland more generally, like the backs of
their hands.
The company’s philosophy is that guests
should feel they are being shown around
the guide’s back yard, as friends rather than
as tourists.
Geo Travel’s main focus during the sum-
mer months is the selection of exciting
excursions into the highlands, as well as
tailor-made private tours of North Iceland.
The best way to see Mývatn and North Iceland
is with Geo Travel’s guides, who grew up there.
MAGICAL MÝVATN
RESPONSIBLE HIGHS
The Geo Travel day trip to Askja Caldera
and the lava field at Holuhraun, which vio-
lently and dramatically expanded in a large
eruption only a couple of years ago, is the
company’s best-selling tour during the
summer. Guests travel for a full day through
an untouched world of incredible geology,
mystery and isolation—a true Icelandic ex-
perience.
Geo Travel adheres to the principle of
slow-travel, where guests get the oppor-
tunity to experience and explore, and are
always allowed as much time as they need.
Geo travel is also a carbon offset compa-
ny with its own demanding environmental
and social policy, imposed voluntarily for
everyone’s benefit. The company’s co-own-
er Anton Freyr Birgisson explains: “It’s im-
portant to us that companies within tourism
understand the impact they can have on
both culture and nature.”
geotravel.is
Tanni Travel is a travel agency and bus
company with over 20 years’ experi-
ence in providing travel solutions all over
Iceland for all types and sizes of group, at
any time of the year. East Iceland is Tanni
Travel’s home turf and its tours in this dra-
matic region are always extra-memorable.
The company’s professional and friendly
staff operate all over Iceland, but, most of
all, they love showing off rugged East Ice-
land.
AS INDIVIDUAL AS YOU ARE
Along with the work of providing services
as a travel agency, Tanni is also a pioneer of
the Meet the Locals project.
Under the slogan “Come as a stranger,
leave as a friend!” Meet the Locals fosters
real connections to the community. Tan-
ni Travel works with service partners and
Let Tanni Travel help you create the ultimate Iceland
tour for your group.
EASTERN PROMISE
municipalities on this project to make qual-
ity products.
Day tours include village walks with lo-
cals, horseback riding, super jeep tours,
family dinner’ at private homes, winter
hikes, and many more.
East Iceland is a marvelous part of Ice-
land, where northern lights dance in the
winter and waterfalls in the summer. An
area of never-ending inspiration for you.
tannitravel.is/english