Celtic Isles to Iceland 23 Night Luxury Cruise on the Seabourn Venture

Iceland is a paradox. The English words ‘fellow’ and ‘geyser’ are both of Icelandic origin. Of all the Northern lands, Iceland has in many ways the most civilized and settled population. Yet it is also a singularly wild and unbridled piece of the earth, filled with jaw-dropping geologic marvels of monumental scale, enchanting landscapes of exceptional beauty, and is literally boiling with unbounded energy. Its cities enjoy an unbroken heritage of governance and lofty levels of modernity. But its immense, ground-shaking waterfalls, soaring peaks and fuming, pyroclastic vents are interspersed with an untouched, green geography harboring millions of nesting birds alongside prosperous sheep farms, and marine mammals including whales of all sorts, porpoises and seals in the heart of its busily harvested summer seas. Some say the Vikings named it Iceland to hide the secret of its bounteous plenitude. But we will go ourselves, in Zodiacs, kayaks and on foot to discover what wonders await us in Iceland’s tall, winding fjords; broad, verdant valleys; and towering stone sea stacks.