A private driving tour with Peter Benedikt is a “must do” in Iceland or else you’re going to be missing out a lot. We decided to contact Peter... read more and his luxury tour guidance the last two days of our trip. We wanted to reach important locations not on our scheduled tour; mainly spending time at Jokularson area to see the Glacier Lagoon, Blue Ice Cave, and Diamond Beach. It was a last minute decision.

Peter at Icelandic Elements came to the rescue. We told him the general areas we wanted to visit, he gave us specifics and then quoted a price for the entire trip, picking us up from our hotel and taking us to all the scenic locations along the way. He also knew every Game of Thrones filming locating which was a huge bonus for us since we’re die hard fans. The trip was a total of 11 hours.

All the planning is done by Peter according to your desire. He is very professional, friendly, and has excellent customer service. He arranged for us to go hiking at the glacier and hike at the blue ice cave. He gave us the link to book directly with the ice cave which we did as it was a different tour all together. The ice cave tour was separate since it required a different glacier expert and the vehicle used has to be configured to drive in the mountainous and glacier areas. It was also booked but he still found us a spot.

The blue cave ice tour was absolutely out of this world. Nothing like walking on top of the glacier and then rappelling down to see the inner paths of the cave. It’s like blue crystals and blue walls enveloping you, hearing nothing but the stream and drops of water coming from the melting ice of the glacier — it’s heaven on earth and it’s spectacular blueness stays with you.

Peter stayed on time and schedule and made sure we don’t miss the sites and can arrive at these areas at optimal time. All through the tour, which was a luxury suv, he talked about the historical and geographical relevance of the various glaciers, lava fields, climatic influences, and best places to explore. It makes a difference when your guide is not only knowledge about this region, he knows it deeply. He knows the residents, and have camped, hiked, fished, bikes, motorcycled, snow skied, etc at all the relevant locations. You can’t help but feel connected to the place the way he opens your mind to the beauty and the nature of Iceland, making the road trip simply perfect!

We stopped by Diamond Beach at the perfect time during sunset. The sun rays hit the thousand crystal ice boulders that made that black beach shine as if sprinkled with diamonds. You have to be there to truly experience this magic.

If you are a Games of Thrones fan, this is the tour you need to take as you can go to as many filming areas you can spare to see. There are so many locations will recognize on the spot — the snowy areas where Jon Snow and Ingrid hanged out, waterfalls where the dragons flew, area where khalessi got lost, so many areas. You can just have a field day chasing all these locations.

We recommend you contact Icelandic Elements to fully experience and see the absolute beauty of Iceland. For those taking this trip as a “once in a lifetime”, it can’t be that when you haven’t reached the most spectacular places in Iceland with the best private tour guide in Reykjavik.

  My family of four (kids 15 and 12) recently returned from a Spring Break trip to Iceland and there is no question that Petur from Icelandic Elements made our experience... read more even better than we expected. We booked Petur to take us fishing, do some of the Golden Circle and take us to a hot spring. It was a cold, windy day for fishing but Petur was great, he brought us to a river that was out of the way and proceeded to run back and forth to help the kids get unstuck, untangled, etc. Rest of the tour was just as good, lots of local knowledge everywhere we went. We had booked a different tour to hike up a volcano a couple of days later but it was cancelled due to weather. We immediately contacted Petur and asked if he was available and fortunately he was. The weather was cold and rainy and we could not make the volcano hike but he took us to some amazing places and really saved our day! We realized that you cannot ever count on the weather in Iceland and having a guide like Petur, who can be flexible and make changes no matter what the weather is, is incredibly valuable. When you only have 3-4 days losing one would be devastating. Overall I Cannot recommend Petur enough, we'll definitely be back to Iceland and can't wait to have Petur show us more of that beautiful country.

  Petur is an amazing tour guide.

I went out with Petur to do both Fishing and Northern lights experiences and was extremely satisficed with both. I really apricate his... read more ability to tailor the experience to be exactly what you need it to be.

I had an amazing day fishing with Petur, he was super knowledgeable about the river and area we went to. He provided a friendly and great learning experience which can be rare to find in other guides. He showed me all the best fishing areas on the river as well as provided the best flies to fish with at that time. I am happy to say that we caught sea run brown trout which is a fish species I specifically came to Iceland to catch.

Petur is very knowledgeable about all things Iceland. I highly recommend reaching out to Icelandic Elements for ANY and ALL tour needs!