Tailor-made travel · Iceland & the Nordics
Private journeys across Iceland, Greenland and the Nordic countries, designed by an experienced team based in Iceland.
Northern travel turns on distance, daylight, weather and timing. We handle those details so your days feel unhurried and your attention stays where you are.
What draws you north
Iceland's attractions are famous for good reason. What changes the experience is when you stand there, and how you got there. These are the classics as we plan them.
64.94° N · Kirkjufell
Nobody can order the aurora, and we never pretend otherwise. What we can do is put you under dark rural skies on unhurried evenings, so when the cloud lifts you are already where the light is.
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64.02° N · Vatnajökull
Each winter the glaciers open caves of blue ice that last a single season. We time the visit around the right cave, a certified guide and the quiet part of the day.
Why to see the ice now →
63.99° N · South farmland
One breed, unchanged for a thousand years, and the friendliest way to read this landscape. We arrange farm visits and riding days with the people who breed them.
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63.62° N · Seljalandsfoss
The south coast strings waterfalls along the road like stations. Some you can walk behind, and in the evening the day-trip buses hand them back to you.
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Destinations · north to south
The North is not one place. Follow the latitudes from Greenland's ice to Copenhagen's harbour.
Journeys worth travelling for
Three starting points, each reshaped around your dates, pace and interests.
01Iceland · 6–7 days
Black beaches after the day-trippers leave. A glacier walk in the right light. A quiet valley kept open for weather and curiosity.
We set the pace from home ground, adjusting the day before conditions become your problem.
02Greenland · 6 days
Sail among icebergs in evening light, walk above the icefjord and cross the bay with local hosts, at a pace that keeps the scale human.
We verify the small flights, boats and scarce rooms, with enough space in the route for Arctic weather.
03Norway · 8–10 days
Bergen, a quiet branch of the Sognefjord and the coastal journey north. Here, travel is part of the experience.
We join rail, road and water into one route, with every handoff held and no rushed connections.
“We had the best experience ever in our trip to Iceland. We got all kind of weather, and that its self was an experience! The tour went smoothly and was very well organized.”
Designed in south Iceland
After more than a decade designing journeys, Hildur Gunnarsdóttir founded Polaris. Her geologist's eye shapes how the team reads landscape, weather, distance and timing.
Hildur Gunnarsdóttir · Founder
Meet Hildur and the teamThe Polaris standard
From your first note to your flight home, one team keeps responsibility.
We ask questions first. If a season, route or famous stop is wrong for the journey you want, we say so.
Stays, guides, transfers, tables and timing form one route. You do not have to reconcile separate suppliers.
The team that knows your plan stays reachable and adjusts it when northern weather changes the day.
No automated itinerary. No anonymous handoff. No pressure to proceed.
64.15° N · Reykjavík
Journeys designed for one party at a time
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63.99° N · Sámsstaðir
Small-group journeys with a theme and a point of view
Explore →66.50° N · the Arctic Circle
The North Atlantic and Arctic, met from the water
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