Visiting Iceland can be an exhilarating experience – but it’s even more exciting when you get to travel around the country on the back of an Icelandic horse. With the help of my local tour ...

Visitors can experience this for themselves and ride Icelandic horses like a Viking. Mr. Iceland is located only 20 minutes from Reykjavik and offers horse-riding tours and horseback riding lessons.

On the upside, I was riding an Icelandic horse, ... Reykjavik, in the southwest to the northeast corner of Iceland 200 miles away, crossing ice cold rivers, lava fields and snow banks.

On the upside, I was riding an Icelandic horse, ... Reykjavik, in the southwest to the northeast corner of Iceland 200 miles away, crossing ice cold rivers, lava fields and snowbanks.

This current trip to Iceland is the third on my reason-to-live plan, and what I want, more than anything in my life, is to be strong enough and sensitive enough to ride these horses well.

Horse riding is one of the fastest-growing businesses in Iceland, attracting thousands of tourists from around the world. In a country of roughly 300,000 people, there are 80,000 Icelandic horses.