📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
This is the third year in a row that SEEDS volunteers have the opportunity to work in this project in the North of Iceland. The main tasks for SEEDS volunteers will be fixing up the outdoor areas of a newly sustainable tourist cooperative in the north of Iceland. The tasks include cleaning up after the winter and preparing the season, planting bushes, maintaining walking paths and other activities if needed. Some indoor cleaning tasks might be expected as well.
This year SEEDS will also cooperate with the local geothermal company for the second half of the workcamp. The task is to restore a small natural pool and the surroundings close to the farm.
The area is great for hiking, both in the mountains and in the Nature Reserve next to the accommodation. Bird watching in the nature reserve is also great this time of the year.
The volunteers can borrow canoes for a tour on the river, and depending on what is going on in the community participate in local events.
🏠 Accommodation on site
SEEDS volunteers will be lodged in a boarding school that has been changed into a hostel, sleeping in bunk beds 3-4 persons sharing a room. Bring your own sleeping bag.
Volunteers will receive food and be in charge of cooking and cleaning activities. Please do not forget some traditional/typical food from your home country for the international evening.
📍 About the location
Volunteers will stay in the North of Iceland in the municipality of Dalv kurbygg (population around 2000) and at the shores of Eyjafjör ur, the longest fjord in Iceland. The fjord is long and narrow, it measures 60 km from mouth to bottom. Its greatest width is 25 km at the fjorde "s mouth but the rest of it is around 6 -10 km wide.
The fjord is surrounded by mountains on both sides. In the outer part of the fjord there are no lowlands along the coast as the steep hills roll directly into the sea. Further south there are strips of lowland along both coasts. The ferry S ¦fari sails from Dalv k to the island of Gr msey, Iceland's northernmost community, which lies on the Arctic Circle.
The area where SEEDS volunteers will be working and sleeping in is an old boarding school located about 10 Kilometres from Dalv k, in the valley (Svarfa adalur), which lies between tall and sharp mountains & several small glaciers. A river runs through the valley from the mountains to the sea.
In the valley, there is a Nature reserve that volunteers will have the chance to visit and enjoy. This environment provides an excellent habitat for many species of birds. In April the migratory birds start to arrive for the summer breeding season. From the project base, there are footpaths that can be easily followed through part of the reserve. We advise volunteers to wear rubber boots as part of the reserve is wetland. The mountains offer great hiking options and the mountains of Tröllaskagi peninsula are by many viewed as the most spectacular outdoor activity in all of Iceland.
ℹ️ Additional information
The camp is located in a place of stunningly beautiful surroundings with countless walking and hiking opportunities.