The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Husavik, the bucket-list move is Húsavík: Big Whales & Puffin Island RIB Speedboat Tour. Húsavík Whale Museum runs it. Below: 3 bucket-list things to do on a Husavik port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Blast across Skjálfandi Bay in a high-powered RIB to meet humpbacks up close and circle the puffin colonies of Lundey Island. This is Iceland's whale-watching capital at full throttle — raw, exhilarating, and utterly unforgettable.
Book itHúsavík: Big Whales and Puffin Island Speedboat Tour$174 per person
Run by Húsavík Whale Museum · 4.60 from 1,600 reviews
Drift silently through Skjálfandi Bay aboard the historic oak sailing vessel Opal — a zero-emission whale-watching voyage that lets you hear every blow and splash without engine noise. The gold standard of mindful luxury wildlife encounters in Iceland.
Book itHúsavík: Traditional Whale Watching Tour$99 per person
Sink into mineral-rich geothermal seawater in infinity pools perched on a lava headland with unbroken views over Skjálfandi Bay. GeoSea is Iceland's most dramatic bathing experience — pure, unhurried, and utterly restorative.
Book itHusavik: GeoSea Geothermal Baths Entrance Ticket$60 per person
Traverse the entire Diamond Circle — Europe's most powerful waterfall, a horseshoe-shaped glacial canyon, and the otherworldly lava fields of Lake Mývatn — with an expert local guide in a premium small-group setting. Iceland's north at its most magnificent.
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Stand at Goðafoss — the 'Waterfall of the Gods,' where Iceland's pagan idols were cast into the torrent in the year 1000 AD — then explore the volcanic wonderland of Lake Mývatn in a single immersive half-day journey. History, geology, and spectacle combined.
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Explore one of the world's finest whale museums with full-skeleton exhibitions, interactive science displays, and a depth of cetacean knowledge that transforms what you witnessed on the water into a profound understanding of these ancient giants.
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Your day in HusavikNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
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Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
