Enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience with a snorkeling tour of Silfra fissure! Float between two tectonic plates, between the continents, in the clearest water in the world (100m+ visibility) while admiring the mesmerizing colors of this underwater world. You don’t need to be a certified diver in order to experience water at its clearest! Snorkeling at Silfra is suitable for anyone who feels comfortable in water and knows how to swim. This family-friendly activity is suitable for children from 12 years old. The snorkeling tour of Silfra is done in a dry suit, helping you to stay warm and dry inside the suit while swimming in the cold, crystal clear water. Silfra is located in Thingvellir National Park which is a Unesco heritage site. The beautiful park is one of the wonders on the famous Golden circle route.
We will pick you up in Reykjavík and drive you to Thingvellir National Park. During the one-hour drive, your guide will provide you with information about the unique geology and cultural history of Iceland and Silfra as well as the surrounding area of the UNESCO world heritage site. Once your group of max 6 people has been formed, your guide will give you your drysuit, warm undersuit and snorkeling equipment. Your guide will explain how to use this equipment and how to ensure that you will be warm during your tour. You can change in our heated Changing Van and the guide will help you with putting all the gear on. We recommend wearing long underwear and thick socks. The briefing and gearing up takes approx 1 hour. You will walk 5 minutes to Silfra and start your 30 - 45 minute snorkeling tour of Silfra Hall, Silfra Cathedral, and Silfra Lagoon. After snorkeling in the cold water, we warm you up with hot cocoa and cookies. This is your chance to chat with your guide.
Pick up service is available only within central Reykjavik at selected hotels and bus stops. Make sure to take this in consideration before booking your tour. If you are staying outside of the central Reykjavik area, please send us a message and we will tell you where to meet us. Please note we don't operate pickups outside of Reykjavik.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Silfra: Snorkeling Between Tectonic Plates Pick Up from Reykjavik lasts about 6 hours. The itinerary has 1 stop.
Prices start at $219 per person for this Reykjavik experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
Yes, pickup is offered. Pick up service is available only within central Reykjavik at selected hotels and bus stops. Make sure to take this in consideration before booking your tour. If you are staying outside of the central Reykjavik area, please send us a message and we will tell you where to meet us. Please note we don't operate pickups outside of Reykjavik.
The experience is available in EN.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 6 participants.
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 4.9 out of 5 across 1,216 verified reviews; it is run by DIVE.IS - The Sport Diving School of Iceland.
Jana, our driver, and Alex, our guide in the water, were absolutely excellent. Informative and humorous, they steered us through all of the processes. It is, at first, pretty nerve-wracking getting into the suits and the water, but once the opening jitters subside, you are in the midst of an undoubtedly amazing bucket-list experience. Highly recommended is an understatement!
Amaaaaazing! Absolutely loved it and would do it again. Great guides to work with, especially Jana. Took great care of everyone in our group. When I was floating along it felt like I was on another planet. Highly recommend!
It was a great experience. Guide Veli was great. Honestly, it is a lot of prep for a relatively short snorkel experience. 45 minute ride to the site, waiting for your turn and getting geared up takes quite a while, then waiting for your turn among lots of other groups using one launch pad was a lot. It's fun, it's gorgeous, it's invigorating, the DIVE team is great. Definitely do it!
This was an awesome experience! The whole crew was awesome, so helpful. Being over 70 they went out of their was to make sure we were comfortable with everything. The dry suit experience was easier than I thought but if you are claustrophobic you should think twice.
It was super! Starting with the pickup at the harbor (we arrived by cruise ship), everything worked out super well. Very nice bus driver. We had great weather and drove through the national park to the Silfra Fissure. Everything worked out perfectly. You get dressed and snorkel in a small group. Our guide Elsa was great, super sweet and nice, explained everything wonderfully, and was always there for us. It is an incredible experience to snorkel in the glacial water, and the dry suits keep you dry and warm. Initially, your face and hands have to get used to the cold for a moment; it is possible that your hands might get a bit cold. Elsa takes the photos and she does a great job. At the end, we got hot chocolate and cookies and were brought back safely. The tour is highly recommended! THANK YOU!!!
I hope this review reaches out to Konrad, our fantastic guide who deserves acknowledgement for his great job. Other than that, on the site there was written that during the transfer from Reykjavík to Silfra, some geological explanation would be done. Unfortunately, this was not the case; but other than this it was a fantastic experience.
The experience itself is great and our guide Hanna was outstanding. However, our pickup was thirty minutes late. When we got to the site, it was a mob scene. Our tour was booked for 1pm, but didn’t enter the water for almost three hours. We stood in line with full gear on for two hours. It felt more like the lines at Disneyland than anything else. Icelandic capitalism at its finest. So disorganized and chaotic. No one wants to acknowledge that it’s just way overbooked. 6.5 hours from start to finish with a thirty minute snorkel. Just not worth it.
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience, and we're glad Hanna made such a positive impression on you and your group. We're sorry to hear the day felt as chaotic and drawn-out as you describe, and we understand how frustrating that wait must have been, especially in full gear. We do want to note that our tour is advertised as running approximately 5.5–6 hours in total, with the possibility of delays built into that estimate, so some extension beyond the snorkel time itself is expected as part of the experience. That said, the day you visited coincided with the solar eclipse, which made it one of the busiest periods Iceland has seen, with a significant surge in visitors. This created longer wait times than usual, and we recognize that combined with the late pickup, it made for a far less smooth experience than we aim to provide.
My wife and I did a silfra snorkel on 8/11. There were roads closed in Reykjavik which made us late by half an hour but the crew on site and our driver were amazing. Lynn and Emil were educational, charismatic, and hilarious. Lynn took us out and it was a beautiful swim. She was awesome and the swim was awesome. Thanks Dive.is!!
Shenae was a great guide and prepped us for everything needed. Such a cool experience. Also ended with a tasty hot coco. Everyone from start to finish was helpful and fun.
So much fun!! Amazing experience! My guide was the absolute best!!
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silfra: Snorkeling Between Tectonic Plates Pick Up from Reykjavik | 6 hours | 4.9 (1,216) | $219 | |
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