All 15 excursions ashore
Every one of the Isafjordur Iceland shore excursions bookable from this port sits on this page, with its price, its length, its rating and the number of people who have reviewed it. They start at $79 for a half-day bus run to Dynjandi, the largest waterfall in the Westfjords, and reach $1,875 for a seven-hour private day. Ten of the fifteen drive to Dynjandi. The other five are a whale boat, a puffin island, an e-bike ride along the fjord, a seal colony and a tasting of five traditional dishes.
Quick answer
The short answer. The cheapest of the Isafjordur Iceland shore excursions is also the most reviewed: the $79 bus trip to Dynjandi, 3 hours 30 minutes, 2,329 reviews at 4.7. Our top pick is the $149 Dynjandi and farm tour, 1,421 reviews at 4.7, which is the same waterfall with a farm stop and coffee, tea and cake added. If you would rather be on the water, the whale watching boat is $111 for three hours at 4.8.
What is on offer
Fifteen listings, thirteen of them carrying a rating, and one waterfall behind two thirds of them.
Two of the fifteen titles say «Shore Excursion» outright and a third says «for Cruises». The rest are ordinary half-day tours sold from the same small town on the same mornings. A search for shore excursions from Isafjordur Iceland turns up both kinds, and for a passenger with a few hours ashore they behave the same way: you book a seat, you leave from town, you come back to town.
Length is the thing that varies least. Nine listings run 3 hours 30 minutes or 4 hours, two run 3 hours, one runs 2 hours, one runs 60 minutes and two run 5 and 7 hours. That is why the Isafjordur Iceland shore excursions read so similarly at first glance: the half-day is the standard unit here, and the differences are in where the half-day goes.
Where it goes is mostly one waterfall. Ten of the fifteen drive to Dynjandi, described by the operators as the largest waterfall in the Westfjords. The other five are the alternatives to it: humpbacks off the coast, puffins on Vigur Island, an e-bike ride to Bunárfoss and the Engidalur valley, a seal colony at Hvítanes, and five traditional dishes at a table in town.
Grouped by what it is
Prices, lengths and ratings below are the live listing figures.
The half-day trip from town to the largest waterfall in the Westfjords on a modern bus with a local guide. It is the cheapest excursion here and it carries more reviews than any other listing on this page, by a margin of 908.
The same waterfall and the same half day, with a working farm added and coffee, tea and cake at it. The $149 version is rated 4.7 across 1,421 reviews and is our top pick; the small-group version for cruise passengers is $185 and rated 4.2 from 166 reviews, the lowest rating on this page.
Four hours instead of three and a half, with the fishing village of Flateyri or a run of scenic stops added to the waterfall. Two listings name Flateyri: $145 at 4.7 from 202 reviews, and $129 at 4.5 from 57. The photo-stops version is $179 at 4.7 from 47 reviews.
The whale watching boat looks for humpbacks along the coastline with a commentary on the marine environment from the captain: 404 reviews at 4.8, the best-reviewed boat here. Vigur Island is a boat out and back to an island known for its birdlife and its puffins, with Icelandic heritage on it: $225, 104 reviews at 4.7.
The shortest way out of town that still leaves town: a guided small-group ride along the fjord to the Bunárfoss waterfall and into the Engidalur valley. At 4.9 it holds the highest rating of any listing here with more than ten reviews.
The seal colony tour goes to Hvítanes for the seals and on to Súðavík, where the guide speaks about the avalanche of 1995 that the village lived through: $145, 3 hours 30 minutes, 4.5 from 6 reviews. The heritage food tasting is an hour at a table over five traditional dishes, with the meal included, at $62. It is a new listing and nobody has reviewed it yet.
Most of what leaves this port is going to one waterfall. Every listing that reaches it, side by side.
The tours that reach Dynjandi→The evidence
Where a number is small, we print how small it is.
Between them the fifteen listings hold 4,783 reviews at a weighted 4.69. That total is not spread evenly: two listings hold 3,750 of it. The bus trip to Dynjandi has 2,329 and the farm version has 1,421, and after those two the next largest count is 404 on the whale boat.
Thirteen of the fifteen carry a rating at all. The highest is 4.9, on the e-bike tour with 37 reviews and on a private four-hour trip to Dynjandi with 8. The lowest is 4.2, on the small-group farm tour with 166 reviews. The rest of the rated listings sit between 4.5 and 4.8, apart from the two carrying a single 5.0 review each.
Two listings have no reviews yet: the heritage food tasting and the private Dynjandi and Hrafnseyri tour. Two more have exactly one review each, each of them a 5.0 — a five from one review tells you almost nothing, and we would rather say so than dress it up. When you are comparing the Isafjordur Iceland shore excursions, read the review count first and the rating second.
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The two Dynjandi half-days with the most reviews, the whale boat, the four-hour Flateyri version, Vigur Island and the e-bike ride.
★ 4.7 · 1,421 reviews
★ 4.7 · 2,329 reviews
★ 4.8 · 404 reviews
★ 4.7 · 202 reviews
★ 4.7 · 104 reviews
★ 4.9 · 37 reviews
Every trip, current fare
Nothing here is carried over from a 2023 brochure: every price, length, rating and review count was read off the live listings in September 2026. The cost-per-hour column is the price divided by the listed length, which is the quickest way to see what the longer Isafjordur Iceland shore excursions are really charging for.
| Tour | Length | Price | What is included | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isafjordur: Dynjandi Waterfall & Farm Tour - Shore ExcursionIsafjordur: Dynjandi Waterfall & Farm Tour - Shore Excursion | 3.5 h | $149 | $42.57 | 4.7 · 1,421 | |
| From Isafjordur: Dynjandi Waterfall Guided Day Trip by BusFrom Isafjordur: Dynjandi Waterfall Guided Day Trip by Bus | 3.5 h | $79 | $22.57 | 4.7 · 2,329 | |
| Ísafjörður: Westfjords Whale Watching Boat TourÍsafjörður: Westfjords Whale Watching Boat Tour | 3 h | $111 | $37.00 | 4.8 · 404 | |
| Ísafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall & Flateyri Shore ExcursionÍsafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall & Flateyri Shore Excursion | 4 h | $145 | $36.25 | 4.7 · 202 | |
| Isafjordur: Dynjandi & Farm Small Group Tour for CruisesIsafjordur: Dynjandi & Farm Small Group Tour for Cruises | 3.5 h | $185 | $52.86 | 4.2 · 166 | |
| Vigur Island Tour with return boat transfers from ÍsafjörðurVigur Island Tour with return boat transfers from Ísafjörður | 3 h | $225 | $75.00 | 4.7 · 104 | |
| From Ísafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall & Flateyri TourFrom Ísafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall & Flateyri Tour | 4 h | $129 | $32.25 | 4.5 · 57 | |
| 4 hour Isafjordur and Dynjandi Tour with Photo Stops4 hour Isafjordur and Dynjandi Tour with Photo Stops | 4 h | $179 | $44.75 | 4.7 · 47 | |
| Ísafjörður: Guided E-Bike Tour with Waterfall & Valley ViewsÍsafjörður: Guided E-Bike Tour with Waterfall & Valley Views | 2 h | $169 | $84.50 | 4.9 · 37 | |
| Ísafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall Tour with Scenic StopsÍsafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall Tour with Scenic Stops | 4 h | $157 | $39.25 | 4.9 · 8 | |
| Ísafjörður: Seal Colony, Avalanche Town & Fjord Views TourÍsafjörður: Seal Colony, Avalanche Town & Fjord Views Tour | 3.5 h | $145 | $41.43 | 4.5 · 6 | |
| Ísafjörður: Icelandic Heritage Food TastingÍsafjörður: Icelandic Heritage Food Tasting | 60 min | $62 | $62.00 | New | |
| Isafjordur: Private Dynjandi Waterfall & Historic WestfjordsIsafjordur: Private Dynjandi Waterfall & Historic Westfjords | 5 h | $862 | $172.40 | New | |
| Ísafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall Private West Fjords TourÍsafjörður: Dynjandi Waterfall Private West Fjords Tour | 3.5 h | $1,616 | $461.71 | 5 · 1 | |
| Isafjordur and Westfjords Private Day TourIsafjordur and Westfjords Private Day Tour | 7 h | $1,875 | $267.86 | 5 · 1 |
Common questions
The guided bus day trip to Dynjandi at $79 for 3 hours 30 minutes. It is also the most reviewed listing on this page, at 4.7 from 2,329 reviews.
Nine of the fifteen are 3 hours 30 minutes or 4 hours. The shortest is the 60-minute food tasting in town, the longest is a 7-hour private day, and the boats and the e-bike ride sit at 3 hours and 2 hours.
The $79 bus trip to Dynjandi, with 2,329 reviews at 4.7. The farm version of the same waterfall is second with 1,421 at 4.7, and the whale watching boat is third with 404 at 4.8.
Five of the fifteen. Whale watching for humpbacks along the coast, a boat to Vigur Island for its birdlife and puffins, a guided e-bike ride to Bunárfoss and the Engidalur valley, a half-day to the seal colony at Hvítanes and Súðavík, and an hour of five traditional dishes at a table in town.
On four of the fifteen listings, which carry a free cancellation flag: the seal colony tour, the heritage food tasting, the private Dynjandi and Hrafnseyri tour and the private Dynjandi Westfjords tour. The other eleven do not show that flag, so read the terms on the booking page before you pay.
Four listings are sold as private. The cheapest is $157 for four hours, which is close to the price of a seat on a shared four-hour trip. Above it the private listings run $862, $1,616 and $1,875, and those are per group rather than per seat.
4.9, held by the two-hour e-bike tour with 37 reviews and by a four-hour private Dynjandi tour with 8. Among the heavily reviewed listings the best is the whale boat at 4.8 from 404 reviews.
Go deeper
What a Westfjords tour covers from the port, and how far each one gets you into the fjords.
Dynjandi waterfallThe waterfall almost every Isafjordur excursion is built around, and the tours that reach it.
Port to DynjandiThe drive from the pier to Dynjandi: distance, road, time back on board.
Dynjandi from portWhich departures fit a short call, and which need a full day ashore.
WaterfallsThe waterfalls near Isafjordur, and which excursion stops at each.
Best picksThe excursions with the most reviews, the shortest window ashore and the lowest price.
Isafjordur: Dynjandi Waterfall & Farm Tour - Shore Excursion
★ 4.7 · 1,421 reviews · Free cancellation 24 h