Guided Trail Rides
We Provide Your Personal Adventure
OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND.
Horse tours are out passion in life:
- Our life is horse tours. It’s been our passion, all our life.
- To go out in the nature and be a team with the horse.
- To see the beautiful places, and sometimes tough landscape, that molded our beloved Icelandic horse.
- To have the companionship of other horse lovers, and travel lovers, and to just live and breathe the fresh air in the nature, and feel the rhythm of life.
- We start doing the horse tours in 2011, but Langhus has always been a horse farm, and our children are the 5. generation of the same family on the farm.
- The farm, and the name of the farm, is at least 800 years old. We have deep roots here.
How our horse tours are, and how our small family farm tour operation is different from the mass market horse tour operations:
- We emphasize on a personal experience and small groups.
- The small group size allows good levels of dialogue along the way.
- We offer guided horse tours with one of us, the local farmers at Langhus farm, or our our skilled and knowledgeable staff.
- We have well trained very experienced horses, steady and obedient, they are our family- and riding-horses. They’re excellent examples of the breed, with good behavior and good tölt / gaits.
- We take the time to match you with the right horse for you.
- We start with a free/bonus preparation introduction / lesson on how to ride these horses, so you can enjoy the tour better. That is helpful, fun and wonderful, both for beginners and experienced riders.
- We keep this on a personal level, so people can see the Icelandic nature, the background of the horses and what made them what they are (the sometimes harsh and sometimes wonderful nature, the breeding, the people and the culture), get to know excellent horses and visit a true Icelandic family horse farm on the real countryside.
- Our niche is creating unique, intimate, authentic experiences, off the beaten path.
- Small groups: The open departure/mixed client groups are generally small, a common number of tourists is 4-8 tourists in the mixed group. If your own group is bigger, we do have around 20 steady horses for our clients, but then we wouldn’t mix that group with other groups, we don’t feel that is the best way to do things. Also, the bigger the group, the more guides go with the group, for safety and for providing a personal experience.
- The guides on the farm talk a variety of languages, it is though a bit seasonal, feel free to get in touch if one of you prefer a guide speaking another language than English. For example a German speaking guide, French speaking guide, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish/Swedish/Norwegian, Arabic, or other.
- We also specialize in private horse tours, and exclusive clients, and have done so since 2025, so our experience in giving exclusive clients in private tours is outstanding.
- On our website you also find other add-on experiences, like the: Geothermal mineral bath. The all-you-can-eat waffle lunch , the indoor family time tours, which are absolutely unique and not done by other horse tour places in Iceland (no child is too young for that tour, and no-one is too handicapped, old or heavy for that tour).
- We also have The farm visits, that are superb and very fun programs for big groups, a fun experience on the farm (without trail riding).
- We focus on delivering the highest quality experience for our clients, which is why Bookings are done through our contact form on the website, or email, so we can share details with each other to create your personal experience.
- Join us as we share what is unique about our horse and Iceland.
About our tour horses, and the treatment and animal welfare in general on our farm:
- The horses are our friends, they are happy, well taken care of, and live a fulfilled life.
- They are of the breed The Icelandic horse, the horses the Viking settlers brought to Iceland a thousand years ago.
- No horse goes on more than one tour per day, not even in high season.
- All horses get at least 3 months holiday every year.
- In the season when they’re working, all horses get at least 1-2 totally days off every week (also in high season). We prefer being fully booked on a particular day, rather than over working the horses.
- They live a natural life in huge pastures with many friends.
- Kindness is a priority in all the training.
- When retired, they live in a herd with youngsters, broodmares and retired horses.
Avoiding footprints / eco-consciousness:
- Thorough recycling program according to EU standards, we take care to recycle everything possible (which is virtually everything) on our farm.
- We offset the fossil fuel used on the farm, through planting trees.
- We protect birdlife in every way on our farm, plus bettering their environment by tree planting.
- Care taken to not destroy nature habitat through any of our actions, on our land or elsewhere.
- Litter picked up in nature, on our land and in our neighborhood.
- All heating is done with the renewable geothermal energy from the Dæli hot spring on our farm.
- All electricity is produced with renewable hydro-power.
- Environmentally friendly cleaning products, with eco-labels if available. Allergy friendly soaps, shampoo etc.
- Eco-friendly sewage system.
- Local food bought when available.
- We produce some of our own food.
Disabled care subjects:
- All stables / houses / paddocks are wheel chair accessible.
- We offer therapy lessons.
Local souvenirs and services:
- Handcraft souvenirs / Icelandic lopapeysa sweaters are locally made, even some of them by us on the farm.
- The sheep skins we sell are from our Langhus sheep, and the tanning done by hand, locally.
- We are all ready to provide information about local accommodation/recreation/shopping etc.
Lukka and Láki, the Langhús horse farmers.
“3 month ago i bought my first horse, Fiton, and fulfilled a long dream of mine. Originally he is from your stud. He is a wonderful horse. very friendly, adorable and a great horse for the whole family. I love him a lot and I hope that we will be a great team for the rest of our lives. I only wanted to say this. Thank you”
“Lukka, I am very happy with you ♥ and these 6 horses, you found really perfect ones for my purposes!!! 🙂 They all listen well, are not hard from the mouth, nice and easy to ride and kind with people! 🙂I surely can recommend and I already have recommended you to many people!!! You are very kind, professional and you know a lot of the horses and owners around, and what is also good, there are so many horses around Saudarkrokur!
Big hugs to you too my dear icelandic friend :)”
“Just wanted to let you know news of Gjof. She is great, I have ridden her about 6 times now and we are learning together. She is exactly what i had hoped for, calm and not spooky but fun and talented.Wanted to thank you for your help in finding her.”
“I have bought 5 horses from Lukka over the years! Lukka has been a very nice and helpful guide and friend and she never gives up on finding the right horses. She always has good suggestions and always eager to help and find answers on my sometimes a little crazy questions. She and her family have always been very friendly and I really appreciate very much their hospitality when I have visited them on their beautiful farm at Langhus looking for or visiting horses. She puts her heart into her business and I always feel a great trust and happiness doing business with her.”
“I have been buying horses from Lukka and Langhus for 14 years and have always been so happy. Lukka is honest and fair. I give her and her farm a huge thumbs up for those looking for an Icelandic horse.”
“Honesty. Unfortunately, all too rare in the horse world, but Lukka has it. Our mare from Langhus has given us much joy as a riding horse and she also gave us two wonderful young offspring to ride. Credit where credit is due.”
“Hersir is very well. He is wonderful horse that I really love: ) He is so fine, very lively and curious, very willing to please. You wrote me a good description of him and he has just all those good qualities : ) Last year was succesful competition year. We got at Finnish Championchips silvermedal in fourgait and fith place in T1. We were chosen in Finnish Team to ride in Norway at NC, but I decided not go to so heavy journey. We also competed in Speedpace and got many medals from these too. Hersir does also work couple of hours a week with disabled children and enjoying it. He is just a lovely personality, the horse of my life :)”
“Djasn is a very lovely horse with an super character, big temperament and easy to ride. Thank you very much for this beautiful horse. “
“Hi Lukka, all the horses that came from you are very nice horses and we get along well with them.
All the horses are very nice to handle for all riders. Thank you very much for finding these fantastic horses, they are just the right kind for us, good family-horses.”
“Just want to tell you, that Kvistur is a great joy. Everyone who watches me ride him, admires him and the few trainers and icelandic horse people I allowed to ride him, really liked him a lot. His tolt is coming along nicely. He works for me without being hectic, is friendly and pretty. Has grown a lot and gets stronger every day. Nothing to be desired. “
“We are very content with Paeja. Yesterday the trainer here started to train Paeja a bit and feels the same as us. He smiled all the time. She is very talented for her age and former training. She is fast in tölt and everything, and she has an absolutely clean beat in all tempos and she has very wellseparated gates. Her spirit is very high and she will be a great riding horse that everybody can ride. But of course a good looking competition horse and breeding horse too. She is confident and not afraid of anything, just a little bit young horse that needs to be educated a bit. And she also begs politely for sweets!!??? We love her. Thank you Lukka for a super horse.”
“Lukka, jeg er så glad for Dama. Vi lærer hinanden at kende fra dag til dag. Hun tølter fint afsted i middeltempo, og selv når det er sand og bakket i klitterne, så kan jeg holde hende i den dejligste tølt. Hun og jeg bliver bare bedre fra hver ridetur. I dag har Dama været med til årets juleridetur i silende regn. Med over 30 heste. Hun gik i traileren uden nogen problemer. Det hele var meget spændende og hun var levende og nysgerrig. Da hun havde fundet sig til rette i flokken “slappede” hun af, og var super skøn at have med. Der red en ung pige op på siden af hende og sagde til mig, at Dama var meget smuk – så ædel ud. Selv synes jeg hun er verdens smukkeste hest, men sådan er det vel med de stolte ejere. “
“Här går det så fint med Skissa, och jag har nu äntligen fått tid att prova Skissa! Hon var MYCKET TREVLIG att rida, hon gick tryggt fram över järnvägen, förbi konstiga soptunnor, postlådor….utan att ens titta! Hon kändes väldigt trygg & säker att rida!”
“Aska har det fint, hun er en super hest og meget dejlig at ride. Jeg rider nu på hende 2-3 gange om ugen og rider meget i skoven – det har hun helt vænnet sig til. Hun har det bedste sind og hun er meget villig til at gå – jeg er meget meget glad for hende.”