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A few days before summer season starts officially for Eldhestar, our days – and especially weekends! – are very busy. In April, we were...
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A few days before summer season starts officially for Eldhestar, our days – and especially weekends! – are very busy. In April, we were again happy to welcome clinics in our riding hall for two weekends. We had the chance to welcome the Icelandic National team and the famous trainer...
Now that the spring weather seems to feel comfortable in the South of Iceland we at Eldhestar are actively preparing the summer . The short and long tours are already almost fully booked, the hotel is filling up and more and more bookings are made for the half-day and day tours. As usual, our Hot...
In a few days, you will be 1.000 international Facebookers to like Eldhestar. And all the team is very proud of that!That is why we decided to celebrate it in offering you a day-tour with us! The rules: You who already like Eldhestar’s Facebook page can sponsor as many friends as you want. It...
This week our foals, who where so far having a really nice time in the fields with the mares, came to bring some fresh blood into our stables! The 2-year olds are continuing the training they started last year, when the 1-year olds are starting to learn with Geert and Hróðmar the basics...
Our riding hall, or indoor arena, is busier and busier and now welcomes many different kinds of events. Last week, five mirrors were set up, to allow riders to have an even more complete training. Our staff members already had the chance to test them during their weekly riding lesson. Last Monday,...
Press is talking about us! More and more newspapers and web sites, all over the world, are interested in Eldhestar and in its accommodation offers, its riding tours and its environmental policy.Here are a few examples of the articles published in the past two weeks:The local Icelandic newspaper...
The middle of Icelandic winter is here. And for Eldhestar’s horses, it means training! Three weeks ago 36 horses moved into our stables. They are now trained every day so that they are in their best shape when summer comes! Every guide has from 2 to 4 training horses and gives each one of...
This weekend, 26th and 27th of January, Eldhestar has the honor to welcome at the same time the best young Icelandic riders and two great trainers! Indeed, champions Olil Amble and Runa Einarsdóttir are training the potential members of Iceland's Youth National Team, in preparation for the...
This weekend, 19th and 20th of January, Eldhestar has the honor to welcome a great trainer!Indeed, the famous trainer from Portugal Julio Borba is giving a clinic to a dozen of riders. For two days trainers, horses and riders train assiduously in our indoor arena.More pictures of the weekend on...
January, winter is well and truly here in Eldhestar ! But this does not mean that we are hibernating! More and more horses have been moving in the stables this week. They come back from their nice holidays in the fields and will start their training little by little. And, we promise, they will be...
Dear Eldhestar and Hótel Eldhestar guests,we wish you all a Happy New Year!The year of 2012 has been a good year for our company, and we are happy and proud to be able to say that we truly have had very many wonderful guests visiting us! We are looking forward to seeing you again!Here we...
JanuaryIn January we had every possible weather. It started with snow over rain and of course icy roads and storm. In between there was a little bit sun.February & MarchThe foundation of our hall has been finished. We were all very excited to see our riding hall growing and become a real...
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On Tuesday, 18 December, Eldhestar Horse Rental received the Icelandic Tourist Board's official quality label Vakinn. The aim of Vakinn's quality system is to strengthen quality and safety in tourism through guidance and support, as well as to develop a sense of social responsibility. Eldhestar is...
Dear Eldhestar Friends!Thank you for such a good year!As a surprise we have prepared an Advent calendar for you. The next 24 days you will find little surprises here . Enjoy!We wish you a nice Christmas time!Your Eldhestar-Team24. December 2012 - MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!23. December 201222. December...
There are over 80.000 Icelandic horses in Iceland with around 7.000 foals being born each year.We have every year around 6 foals at our farm and we buy as well youngsters from other farms to train these. We start to train them, when they are between four and six years old. Then we pick them up from...
Finally, yesterday (Friday) the first real snow has been falling. As we say at Eldhestar – exactly the right amount that everyhing is covered white, but not too much that it causes troubles :)The temperature was only around -5°C, so we put on our cozy overalls, hats and gloves and went...
Before the weekend, we would like to inform you about our current activities at the farm.We have now several youngsters at the farm (between 4 and 5 years) and we start to train them. We get them used to work with humans, to the saddle and also to a rider. We are still busy with riding tours and...
Storm in Iceland is not unusual, especially during these months. Often, there is a strong wind blowing across the island, but since friday Iceland got hit by a really powerful storm. The speed of the storm reached around 28 m/s here on our farm Vellir; In Reykjavik it was even more than 32 m / s....
This weekend everything at our farm is characterized by farriers. We have prepared the stable and our riding hall for the weekend, because many farriers from all over the country will visit us.It starts on Friday afternoon with a workshop about the form changing on horse shoes and effect movement...
It is still autumn at our farm ... and that means a lot of changes. For example it get darker and darker - each morning when we pick up the horses from the field. The sun is rising around 8 o´clock but this changes every day and you can actually see how the days get shorter and shorter.During...
We are very proud to present our new brochure for 2013! You will find many new exciting things. Especially our new riding hall is certainly making winter riding alternatives more attractive. There are some changes to our program. We will change the itinerary of the tour 10, Thórsmörk....
Today is September 10th and the summer season 2012 has ended some days ago when our last long tour „olden Highlights of the South“ returned to the farm. Today, Flo and 7 guest are going to start our last 3-day tour „Around the Volcano“ and soon the first participants for...
This Saturday, August 18th, Menningarnótt, the Culture Night will take place in Reykjavík. This is one of the biggest outdoor events in Iceland with thousands of people strowling through downtown Reykjavík enjoying the wide range of activities such as exabitions, guided tours...
Since the beginning of June, we offer every day at 9:45 our Eldhestar Horse Show in the new riding hall. The show is a great choice for those who want to get to know more about the Icelandic horse but have not the time to take a longer riding tour. Many guests from all over the world have already...
25 years ago, in the summer 1987, Eldhestar started to offer guided tours in the area around the volcano Hengill. To celebrate this 25 eventful years, we not only organized two Anniversary Tours – the „Paradiestour and „Landmannalaugar from the West. We also gave out a book...
Last Thursday, June 7th, we at Eldhestar opened of our new indoor riding arena. Finally, after many years of planning and months of constructions we celebrated with friends, partners and guest the opening with a great show. We practiced this show for weeks. First we led our horses through the...
Today, we have May 31th and the season will officially start tomorrow. Then we will present our new horse show for the first time. From June 1st there will be a daily presentation of the Icelandic horse in our new riding hall where visitors from all over the world will learn about the history,...
Today, the Ice Saints arrived in Iceland. Even though they are better known in Middle and Eastern Europe to bring cold weather between May 11th and May 15th, Boniface and his friends seem to have taken a small detour to Iceland this year and brought us quite cold weather again. Maybe they just came...
Last Thursday, April 19th, the Icelandic people celebrated the first day of the summer. Finally the winter is over and the days are already quite long again. However, the weather on this first day of the summer does often not correspond and we have had storm, rain or even snow on that day. This...
The construction of our riding hall precedes fast. Only last week, the pillars of laminated tree were installed. During the past days, the construction workers put up the walls of our riding hall. As you can see on the picture, they have already finished their work on two sides and we are very...
During the past month, the construction workers have been very busy building our new riding hall. The foundation of our hall has been finished some weeks ago and just the other week, Limtré ehf. arrived with the first pillars. At first they just let them rest on some stands over the weekend...
The first month of the year is almost over and we would like to take the opportunity to inform you about the upcoming events this year. As you know, Eldhestar celebrated the 25th anniversary of organized riding tours in Iceland in 2012. At the same time, Landsmót will be held in...
The year 2012 is already two weeks old and we at Eldhestar started well into the new year. We started to put about 36 of our horses into the stable and train them in the upcoming weeks and months so they are fit for our riding camps in the spring. Some of them have already been on our farm during...
Hótel Eldhestar has been granted the Environmental Award 2011 from the Icelandic Tourist Board. Since 1995, each year one individual or business within the tourism sector has been awarded with the prize for its outstanding work concerning environmental issues.This year, Hótel...
The year 2011 ends and it has been a great year for Eldhestar. The weather has been good and the tours went well this year. As every year, we have been serving our Christmas table during the past three weekends. Many Icelanders took the opportunity to enjoy the traditional Icelandic Christmas food...
It is time again to bring you up to date on what is happening around our farm. As you know, we are building our new riding hall in the moment. The workers are still occupied with the foundation of the building, but with a little bit of fantasy, you can already see how everything will look next...
In 2012 Eldhestar celebrates 25 years of guided tours through the Icelandic nature. 25 years is a great success that we would like to celebrate with you. We have been coming up with many ideas how to honour our anniversary and we are very proud to offer you two special anniversary tours during the...
Much has happened in the past weeks. For example, the work has started to tear down our old farmhouse Vellir, which has been inhabitable for some years. We are very sad about this, since we have many nice memories when we, the staff, were living in the house. There was for example something we...
In the past week, we have been working with our new brochure and we are very proud to tell you that our brochure is done and ready to be sent away or downloaded from our webpage.There are some changes to our program. If you book our tour 9a „Around the Volcano“, you won´t need to...
Today is already September 20 and the autumn has started. A busy and very successful Summer 2011 lies behind us and we at Eldhestar would like to say thank you to all our guests for spending your vacations with us. We hope you enjoyed your time with us and we are happy to welcome you back on our...
We have a very divers wildlife around us here at Vellir.There is a pair of Rock Ptarmigan living in the mountains that have often been sighted on our tour 3A or 2E. Especially in the autumn, when the feathers start to become white. In spring time it is covered with all sorts of birds, both field...
Did you know that Hotel Eldhestar was the first Icelandic hotel to receive the Nordic Swan label in 2002. Limiting the impact on the environment has always had a high priority in our daily business. The Swan label confirms that our hotel is still one of the leading hotels in Iceland regarding...
Much has happened in the past weeks at our farm. The summer is in full swing and our first long tours are already finished. While the first shorter tours like “Krýsuvík” or “Thingvellir” still found some small spots of old snow in the mountains, the weather has...
Dear guest,we are very happy to tell you that the Icelandic officials have announced in the beginning of this week that the eruption in the Grímsvötn volcano is over. Icelandic geologiest could not measure any eruptions from Grímsvötn since the weekend.We hope that this good...
The Eldhestar team is very happy to tell you that, according to Icelandic geologiest, the activity of the volcano Grímsvötn has reduced significantly during the past hours and the volcano ejects much less ash than in the previous day. As the situation is in the moment, the volcanic...
As you might have heard in the media, the Icelandic volcano Grímsvötn erupted last Saturday, May 21st. Grímsvötn is one of the most active volcanoes in Iceland, located under Europe´s biggest glacier Vatnajökull. Even though Grímsvötn erupts regularly,...
Last Wednesday, Krístofer and Viðar, two members of the Icelandic Red Cross, visited us at Eldhestar in order to give us a refreshment course in First aid. This course reminded us of the right procedures in an accident, how to attend to smaller wunds during the tour and when to get the...
Much has happend in the stable, too. During the last days, we picked up many of our horses who spend their winter on other fields in South Iceland. We had 80- 90 horses on our farm during the winter. Now, we already have about 150 horses on our farm that we will train in the upcoming weeks and...
It is middle of May and the beginning of our long tour season comes closer and closer. A lot is going on around our farm Vellir. In fact, there is so much going on, that we had to split our news into two parts. All winter, we offered a Winter Riding School to our guest. They stayed for a long...
Finally, after many weeks of snow, storm and minus degrees, we had some very nice days of sun. Nature wakes up in Iceland. The first blades of gras have been spotted by our horses and they love to search for more of the fresh taste of young gras.The staff used the good weather to start the grilling...
The spring is coming, it is already March and much has happend in the last weeks. A number of british school classes came to ride a one hour tour with us. We had a lot of fun with the kids. On the first picture, you can see our last schoolgroup, when they lined up for a group picture in the end of...
Winter and spring here on Iceland is traditionally the time to train horses. On the first picture you see Lena and Skinfaxi preparing to go out for a short ride to build up condition. Skinfaxi has been on vacation since after the summer. Picture two shows Uli and her horse Leo practicing in the...
Since yesterday and during the night the first snow in the new year was falling.So far we had a realy mild winter with almost no snow so we and the horses are enjoying this change of scenery....
We at Eldhestar wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!...
Today the preperations for our third Christmasbuffet are in full swing and while Svetlana is cleaning the chimney to allow Santa a barriere free entrance, Silva is preparing and decorating the tables so that our dining room is full of christmas atmosphere for tomorrow....
It pleases me to inform you that we have updated the availability list for 2011. We see some people have started to book their holiday already and others may want to wait.Now we can keep you updated on the booking development. Sprengisandur holds the record again this year beeing the fastest...
Everybody is enjoying the fine winter weather here on Iceland and even Polo, our stable cat, decided to join Lena on a short riding tour around the cottages....
Today is a beautyfull crispy cold day here on Iceland. All gras and bushes are covered with a thick layer of frost. Our guests and staff are equaly enjoying riding in this glittering winter wonderland. ...
I am excited to say that we have added four horses for sale on our sales site. We are very enthousiastic about them. We do have a lot of horses for sale and we will slowly add to the list. If you are looking for something in particular you are welcome to ask. So far there is only short information...
Winter is approaching here on Iceland with big steps and as you can see on the picture, our horses are already having a thick winter coat.Geert and Caroline (our farriers) were very buisy the last couple of days and now all our horses are having new winter shoes....
In 2011 we will celebrate our 25th anniversary.The new brochure is at the printers office. We are very much looking forward to distribute it. It will show Eldhestar pictures from the beginning and now!For the ones that can not wait for the printed version, you are welcome to download our pdf...
Did you know that we have at least three ''movies'' on Youtube? If you have the chance you should really take a look!...
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