Iceland – Ice Cave Tour


Blaue Eishöhle im Gletscher mit Schneehaufen am Boden

There was one thing we had wanted to do in Iceland for a long time, and now the moment had finally come: an ice cave! The pictures on the internet had already impressed us, but seeing it all for ourselves was in a completely different league. With Aron from localguide.is as our guide we set off, and the many shapes and the deep blue of the ice were, next to the northern lights, certainly the highlight of our holiday. Ice caves like this form in the Vatnajökull when meltwater cuts passages into the ice. In summer they melt or flood, so every season looks different – and you may only enter them with a qualified glacier guide, usually between October and April. Here are the pictures from our tour:

Light falling through the opening of a blue ice cave in the Vatnajökull
Light falls through the opening of the blue ice cave in Vatnajökull.
Blue ice cave with a pile of snow on the floor
Blue ice above two heaps of snow on the floor.
Person sitting in a wide blue ice cave
Small in the wide cave: a person sitting beneath the blue vault.
Patterned ice wall in a blue glacier cave
A patterned wall of ice – the cave looks different every season.
Stones trapped in blue glacier ice
Stones trapped in the blue glacier ice.
Snow ramp under the blue ceiling of an ice cave
A ramp of snow beneath the blue ceiling.
Dark boulder in the blue ice of a glacier cave
A dark boulder in the blue ice.
Rippled ice ceiling of a glacier cave above dark water
Rippled ice above dark water – meltwater carved these passages.
Blue ice ceiling and a small cone of snow in a cave
The blue ice ceiling and a small cone of snow.
Cone of snow beneath the blue ice vault of a glacier cave
A cone of snow beneath the blue ice vault.
Curving layers of ice in a blue glacier cave
Curving layers of ice – alongside the northern lights, the highlight of the trip.

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