Wreck site · South Coast
Also written Solheimasandur plane wreck — we keep the Icelandic spelling.
A US Navy DC-3 that crash-landed on the black sands in 1973. The walk from the road is about 4 km each way across open gravel with no shelter.
prices and departures checked 4 Nov 2026
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Midnight sun
May–July
True midnight sun only above the Arctic Circle — Grímsey. The mainland gets civil twilight all night, which looks much the same.
Lupine in bloom
June–July
Introduced, controversial and impossible to miss when it flowers. Peaks a fortnight later in the north than the south.
The 3 tours we sell that stop at Sólheimasandur DC-3 leave from Reykjavík and Vík í Mýrdal. Most of them start in Reykjavík, so for anyone based in the capital there is nothing to arrange beforehand.
All 3 of them collect you from your accommodation or a designated stop, so the tour is the transport — there is nothing else to arrange and no timetable to read.
A seat on a day tour here starts at €121 and typically runs €152, per person, private charters excluded because those are priced per vehicle and would flatter the figure. There is no scheduled bus we can sell you to Sólheimasandur DC-3, so a guided day is the practical way in without a car.
The days themselves run from about 10 h to 13 h door to door, so check the length as carefully as the price — the cheapest seat is often the longest coach day. 3 different operators run here, which matters more without a car than with one: if the weather cancels your day, there is usually another departure rather than a lost trip.
Whatever gets you to the car park, the last stretch is on foot: about 4 km each way across open black sand with no shelter and nothing to navigate by. The shuttle bus from the road covers that walk, and in winter weather it is worth the fare.
Both work here. A car buys you the stops you want at the times you want them; a tour buys you not having to think about the road.
Cheapest way in without a car: a guided day tour from Reykjavík, from €121 per person.
We have done the sums on this properly: what a rental car actually costs against guided tours.
Magic Iceland Travel
15% below the €142 typical for sightseeing day tours
from age 6 · pickup at extra cost
10 h 30 · from Reykjavík
Absorb Iceland
from age 8 · pickup included
10 h · from Vík í Mýrdal
Arctic Adventures
from age 8 · pickup included
13 h · from Reykjavík
Taken from each operator's own itinerary, not from marketing copy — these are tours whose agenda names Sólheimasandur DC-3 as a stop.
Arctic Adventures
from age 8 · pickup included
13 h · from Reykjavík
Discover the best of Iceland's South Coast, including Skógafoss, Reynisfjara, Dyrhólaey, and the iconic DC-3 plane wreck.
Magic Iceland Travel
15% below the €142 typical for sightseeing day tours
from age 6 · pickup at extra cost
10 h 30 · from Reykjavík
Travel along the South Coast of Iceland - the Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss waterfall,, the famous Black Sand Beach and Plane wreck on the way.
Absorb Iceland
from age 8 · pickup included
10 h · from Vík í Mýrdal
Experience an extraordinary journey that combines the stunning natural beauty of the South Coast with an exhilarating ATV ride on black beaches
3 operators, all of whom we hold a contract with. We do not list every company in Iceland, on purpose.
Absorb Iceland · Arctic Adventures · Magic Iceland Travel
We list 3 — 3 day tours and 0 multi-day packages, from 3 operators. That is what we currently have contracts for, not everything that exists in Iceland.
The place itself is usually free to enter; what you pay for is getting there. A day tour seat runs from €121, with a typical price of €152. Some sites charge separately for parking or admission — check the individual tour.
Looking at the next 360 days of live availability, departures fall in November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October. That is a rolling window rather than the full year, so a month missing here is not necessarily a month with nothing running.
Both work. Driving gives you the stops you want and the time you want them; a tour removes the winter road decisions and lets everyone look out of the window. We sell the tours and say so — if self-driving suits you better, it suits you better.
Yes — 3 guided day tours in our catalogue stop here. 3 of the tours pick you up from your accommodation, so no onward transport is needed.
A guided day tour from Reykjavík, from €121 per person, with €152 the more typical fare. Private tours cost more because they are priced per vehicle rather than per seat.
Hotels
From the cheapest to the top end of what is in South Coast, from our hotel partners. Rooms are booked on our hotels site.
Sólheimasandur DC-3 is rarely a whole day on its own. The planner knows how long each tour takes and how far apart the start points are, so it can build the rest of the day around it.
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