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Boat Tours around the Westman Islands

Viking Boat Tours have earned an excellent reputation for quality service and satisfied customers. We offer visitors the opportunity to observer the magical beauty of the West man Islands by sea.

Whale watching tours

The waters around West man Islands inhabit the largest population of Killer Whales and Dolphins in the whole Icelandic sea area. So this would make an exciting sightseeing trip to see Icelandic nature in its best.

Bird watching in Iceland

Vestmannaeyjar or “The West man Islands” has one of the largest varieties of bird species in Iceland including puffins. No were else in the world can such large numbers of puffins be found in such close proximity to man. It’s estimated that the colonies are between 6 – 8 million puffins. We also have the largest gannet and guillemot colonies in the world and numerous other species of nesting. In addition, we often see whales on our tours including orcas, dolphins and porpoises. The spectacular cliffs and natural terrain that can be seen here amaze everyone who comes to West man Islands. Our boat tours give an opportunity to see these wonders of nature from different perspective.

Bus Tours

Westman Island Tours A tour wit three higlight stops with guiding in english and scandinavian languages On this tour you're going to walk into the crater of the young volcano Eldfell, feeling the heat, that today still is 450°C in one meter depth. And we'll visit the puffins at Stórhöfði. The tour takes

The Circle Tour

This tour will go around the island of Heimaey “Home Island” with stops at places of interest where passengers can see a large variety many caves, bird life and observe whales. A guide will be on board to inform and explain the sights in Icelandic, English and German. The trip ends by sailing into Klettshellur “Cliff Cave”, and a musical instrument is played on board. The acoustics in the cave provide a sensational experience. From there we reenter the harbor. The trip takes approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

We have approximately 15.000 visitors annually who join us on our boat tours, and with each year the number increases. Those who have taken our tours have described their experience as both exciting and informative.

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