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Description

The dancing aurora borealis, or northern lights, are truly one of the unique wonders of the world. Iceland is a leading northern lights destination perfectly situated at the edge of the arctic circle, perfect for spotting the Northern Lights.

Our small group version of the Northern Lights Hunt offers a more personalized experience as there are fewer passengers per expert guide. 

When you buy a ticket for this tour, there is an extra special bonus, a free ticket to the Aurora Reykjavík Museum in downtown Reykjavík. You can visit the museum at any time during the day and we can pick you up for the tour at the museum if you wish. The Museum is a great introduction to the science and wonder of the northern lights. This multimedia exhibition offers interactive displays and an educational center outlining how people and cultures around the world interact and think about the Northern lights. The Museum also has information on the best camera set-ups to make a lasting memory of your time in Iceland.

For more information check out our Complete Guide to the Northern Lights

Highlights

  • Northern Lights hunt with an experienced specialized guide
  • Warming hot chocolate
  • Icelandic snacks
  • Free visit to the Aurora Centre (Valid for the day of the tour)
  • Northern Lights

Itinerary

The Aurora Borealis, known commonly as the Northern Lights, is a naturally occurring light display, commonly seen in high latitude locations. These ethereal lights are formed when solar winds agitate the magnetic field of the earth, ionizing the particles and causing them to give off light which we see in the form of the wispy bands of colour across the night sky. The aurora can form in a variety of colours depending on the altitude of the particles where they become ionized.

Reykjavik city has a high level of light pollution, making it difficult to get a good view of the aurora. Therefore, this tour takes place away from the city, in the darker countryside. Our in-house expert Northern Lights Team and your guide will make this a memorable experience, providing you with all the necessary information required to understand this phenomenon and will take you to the best possible location to view the Aurora Borealis.

You can count on the BusTravel Iceland team doing everything within their power to make the night outstanding for you.

Hot chocolate and refreshments

The Northern Lights are wild and unpredictable, so hunting the lights requires a lot of patience and warm weather-appropriate clothing. We provide warming hot chocolate and quintessential Icelandic snacks to complement your evening tour. Please make sure that you are prepared to spend some time outside in the arctic winter, warm clothing is an absolute must. >center>

What if we don’t see the Northern Lights?

Although Iceland offers ideal conditions to view the northern lights, they can never be guaranteed. If you are unfortunate not to get a sighting on our tour, we offer a free rescheduling to another evening. Details of how to rebook in case of no lights will be supplied by the guide. The offer for rebooking is valid for three years from the date of your first tour departure. At the end of the night, we'll bring you back to Reykjavik and you will be dropped off at your preferred location. Please note that the duration of the tour is normally 3-4 hours but can vary in length depending on weather conditions in the evening.

What's included

  • Free entrance to Aurora Reykjavík (Valid only on the day of your tour)
  • Northern Light hunt
  • Experienced guide
  • Free pick up and drop off
  • Hot chocolate and refreshments
  • In case that you don’t see the Northern Lights, you can reschedule for free to BusTravel Iceland’s non-premium Northern Lights Bus Tour as often as you want until the beautiful aurora is seen.

What's excluded

  • Food and drinks other than refreshments

What do I need to bring?

  • Warm clothing and good sturdy shoes

Important information

  • The minimum age is for participation in the tour is 6 years

Cancellation policy

  • Cancellation fee of 100% if cancelled 1 day or less before departure

Guided Language

  • English

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Wow!

We did the Northern Lights tour twice. The first night we saw a sky full of stars but didn't see the lights. We went again the second night with Esther. She was a wonderful driver and guide., and eventually we did see the magical Aurora! Would highly recommend the tour to all.

By Sharon on 2023-03-23

Northern Lights small tour

Denis our guide was amazing. Very funny and informative. Would highly recommend him

By Sue on 2023-03-11

Simply thanks!!!

Me and my wife loved this tour. Dennis make this Northern Lights tour so especial because I think that he LOVE the Northern Lights and when someone enjoy with his works, all works perfect. Really I think Dennis does the best for make us this tour unforgettable. Thanks for all Dennis, I wish you the best!!!

By Marcos Martin on 2023-03-14

Amazing tour

We were so lucky to have Denis as our tour guide. He was so incredible and allowed us to see all the beauty of the northern lights. So enthusiastic and even snapped some great photos of us with the northern lights in the back ground. Couldn’t have asked for a better experience!

By Nicole Shaw on 2023-03-09

Absolutely incredible

Denis was our tour guide and led us right to the lights!!!! I know some of this is luck but he was so reassuring we would see them and WOW we got a show!!!!! He was so enthusiastic and took pictures for us! It was amazing and a check off the bucket list.

By Emily on 2023-03-09

What an experience

Thank you so much for this special experience!!! Hot chocolate at the end of the night was ‘must ‘.

By Dimitri on 2022-12-13

Small group minibus tour

We were so lucky to have Simon as our guide. He is so knowledgeable and persevered with our Northern light hunting. It was raining in Reykjavik that night. We thought our hopes of seeing the lights were low. After driving an hour out of Reykjavik, Simon did not give up and decided to drive us another 20 mins to a field based on his experience and high solar activity report where we saw the lights despite a full moon. We’re forever grateful to have him as our guide, even more so when we found out other groups did not see the lights on the same night. Thank you, Simon!!

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By Michelle Tam on 2022-11-08

pretty good trip

The whole trip is really enjoyable and thanks for our guide to take beautiful photos of us with the northern light!!! Hope to try again

By geng weiwei on 2022-10-28

The best

We went on a trip with a different operator and all they did was drive to a car park and hoped for the best. We decided to go on a smaller tour and thankfully we had the best guide ever...Denis...a legend. He drove everywhere and would talk all about the lights and he would suddenly stop, get out and using his knowledge and equipment would check the sky. If it was a sighting he would drive to the nearest safe parking option and get us out. He told us where to look and how to set up our mobile cameras. He was brilliant and we saw fantastic views of the lights. Thanks Denis for making a fifty year dream become a reality. 100 star review

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By Mark Pocklington on 2022-10-28

Amazing Experiencie with Denis P.

Great experiencie with our guide Denis P. Great driver, very punctual and a great person!! Denis constantly tried to make us see the Northern Lights in perfect conditions, taking us from one place to another until we got wonderful views and spectacular photos. Better impossible! A totally recommendable experience. We would repeat without any doubt.. Passion for excelence!

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By Susana Centeno on 2022-10-28

Denis is the best !!

My girlfriend and I went out with Denis last night to see the northern lights. We had the most incredible time. The lights were amazing and Denis knows how to keep the energy alive even when it's freezing at 1 am. Would recommend to everyone to give it a go !

By Aaron on 2022-10-28

Excellent!

Amazing tour with our guide Denis that offered us a new experience and an amazing night of Northern Lights Hunt! He was extremely kind and also provided us some photos under the lights. Highly recommended tour!

By Giancarlo Merola on 2022-10-28

Small Group Northern Lights Tour

Excellent and fantastic tour. The guide Denis was really good, knowledgeable, knowledgeable and kind. he provided many useful explanations about the Northern Lights and all of Iceland. he did everything to make us even happier by taking us to every place to see the Northern Lights. congratulations to Denis

By Marco Sorvillo on 2022-10-28

Definitely recommend

After having some trouble with our tour being cancelled on the day due to low clouds (which we didn’t mind as we understood) and then our tour being rebooked for the wrong pick up address and missing out again! We finally got to go on Thursday the 27th and our whole experience that we started off with the company completely changed thanks to Denis the bus driver who was absolutely amazing at his job, he made us feel really welcome, was very informative about the lights and went above and beyond to make everyone leave happier than they arrived as he says, I cannot put into words how happy we was with the service Denis provided for us and how he completely made the tour a really enjoyable one. I hope the company realises how much of a exceptional worker they have in their team. :)

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By Lucy on 2022-10-27

So amazinggg!

I had Denis and he did everything he could for us to see the northern lights! We were the very first bus at every location and he brought us to the best stops to see them. it was hard to see but he was very knowledgeable and knew exactly where to look. We saw a glimpse of them at every stop! He took so many pictures of everyone and it was really great being in a smaller group on the minibus tour. Such a fantastic experience.

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By Fallon Williams on 2022-10-27

Always choose the premium with Denis

The smart guide is the person who can understand their customers’ with a 15 minutes of talk. Mr. Denis Phoenix is such a tourist guide who doesn’t only please his Travelers by telling the interesting stories and facts, but also clicking the pictures of his customers under the beautiful and colorful Northern lights with his own equipments (phone, tripod stand, torch light and posing suggestions) to make it memorable one forever for everyone. And then celebrating the photo achievement with the chocolates and hot chocolate drink in his mini van with fancy blue lights. He knows to mingle with peoples’ expectations from the whole trip. 5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ recommendation ✅

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By Abhinav on 2022-10-19

Northern light group

It's Easy to book the trip and if the weather is not good. They will cancel Your trip and refund or reschedule Your trip. That was really helpful.. I waited 3 nights to see the northern light. Finally before my flight, we made it. It s really beautiful to seeing the green and pink light on the sky. Your eyes can see more than your camera. Just laying on the ground looking at the sky, Enjoy that moment. And my guide is Danise, who is happy to take pics of us. Not all the guides Do this. Lucky for single traveller. At the end, thank you all the stuff for this trip.

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By JJ WANG on 2022-10-27

Once in a Lifetime Experience -

What can I say ……. Bucket list experience that I have waited years to accomplish. This tour did not disappoint and I was thrilled to have this amazing experience. Denis was fantastic, really knowledgeable and nothing was too much trouble for him. He was genuinely enthusiastic and this spread throughout the group and we had a brilliant time. It is a memory that will stay with me forever. I felt so humbled to see the Northern lights and Denis made this experience so memorable - thank you.

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By Clare Brosnan on 2022-10-26

Alexander was the Best!

We took multiple tours in Iceland and all were very good. Due to cancellations and changes (weather) our Northern Lights minibus tour was the last evening we were in Iceland. Despite doing the 15 hour Glacier Lagoon & South Iceland tour that day and evening we had booked the minibus Northern Lights tour and got off of one bus and on to another bus as trying to see the Northern Lights was what had drawn us to visit Iceland in the first place, With the smaller bus our tour guide Alexander was able to take us to places the bigger bus could not go. and he tried so hard to try different places to have us see the lights. There was just too much cloud cover and though he was disappointed for us we knew that there were no guarantees and he had done the best job possible with his wide range of experience but at 1 AM it was time to go back to Reykjavik. As we were returning the bus was very quiet and suddenly Alexander exclaimed there they are! He pulled over and we all got off the bus and had the experience of a lifetime. He was a great tour guide and certainly has a passion for his job! L

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By John ReShore on 2022-10-05

Brilliant

We got very lucky and saw some magical northern lights. Omar was a great guide - he shared so much interesting information and was very funny. The hot chocolate and treats were very lovely as well. Looking forward to our next tour with bus travel Iceland

By Victoria on 2022-03-13

Amazing, definitely recommend

We’d originally booked with another company and tried twice to see the northern lights and unsuccessful, at which point they gave us voucher which we were unable to use the next day. We booked through Simon as he had been amazing on our South Coast Tour. Omar took us to hunt for the Northern Lights. He was brilliant, amazing knowledge, he explained how the Aurora borealis happens and also showed us individually how to use our phones to take pictures. We saw a glimpse of the Northern lights, which I caught on my iPhone and it was amazing. I’d definitely recommend this tour going by mini bus as you get a personalised experience which was so much better, but do wrap up, it was freezing standing in the fields

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By Mindy Sagoo on 2022-03-02

Amazing experience

Thank you so much to Omar, he was great and completely made the experience, definitely worth booking this trip! We saw the northern lights very faint but it was amazing! Omar explained everything to us to know what to expect and his knowledge is brilliant! Very polite and friendly and the re-booking when the tour has to be cancelled is very quick and easy. With a Small tour you get a personal experience and quick and easy to go in and out of the tour on the evening. Wrap up as the wind is extremely cold! 100% recommend

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By Sarah on 2022-03-02

1st class trip

Excellent trip on a very cold and windy night. This was our second trip as we did not see lights last night. Bustravel rebooked us on tonight's trip. We'll we went searching and driver/guide was very knowledgeable and knew where to go. To be honest we were not hopeful of seeing lights but patience paid off in the end. Lights came out to play. Yes they were not very bright but we seen the. That's good enough for me. I would highly recommend Bustravel.is. communication was brilliant from start to finish.

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By Paul carden-jones on 2022-01-30

Small Group Northern Lights Tour

Sigfus Omar is a legend. He was amenable, approachable and an all round good guy. We booked back to back trips with BusTravel Iceland- south coast and northern lights both in the same day. The service level, knowledge and hospitality was tremendous. We will definitely use this company again. Sigfus made our trip memorable! Big shout out to him!!

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By Anand Tanna on 2021-12-20

Small Group Northern Lights Tour

The Northern Lights Tour was fantastic! I'll definitely do it again next year and also choose a small group. Because we were a smaller group, we could check several locations to finally find the Northern Lights. We've got hot chocolate at midnight and some snack. The guide Omar was exceptional, he knows everything about the Northern Lights! I've learned a lot and I loved the spectacular show of the Lights. One important thing - believe that it's cold outside in the winter! Wear very warm clothes!!!

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By Anna Kierczynska on 2021-11-16

Small Group Northern Lights Tour

Excellent tour and worth every penny that I paid. The guide was extremely knowledgeable about why the Aurora Borealis exists and gave a useful explanation about the precursors/signs to look out for in the sky. Safe to say we were treated to a great light show when the Northern Lights eventually appeared!

By Albert Poon on 2021-12-16

Small Group Northern Lights Tour

Perfect tour guide ! He knew so much. Perfect day even in the rain and snow..

By Arine Huijboom on 2021-11-20

Hard to describe how beautiful it was!

I loved it!!! We went to a few locations and the guide Omar told us everything we needed to know about the northern lights and some facts about Iceland! On the last location we had snacks and hit chocolate and around midnight we saw a lot of northern lights in the sky. It’s incredible how it looks like and how bright and clear the show was! Absolutely breathtaking and I’m going to do it again next year!

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By Ania on 2021-11-16

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