A week in Iceland - itinerary

The main point is that it´s not a good idea to try to climb Hekla.

If you are experienced in the use of ice axe and crampons, it is perfectly plausible. Tours for suitably fit tourists are arranged, though they have a fairly high failure rate because of the weather. I think it is best to understand the real reasons for doing or not doing things. Eruption risk is not the reason: eruptions generally have forewarning.

not Reykjavik

I was just explaining which Borgarfjordur was likely meant in the itinerary OP himself presented, in order he could understand it. It is perfectly plausible to include Borgarnes area in a south coast tour if you have time, the traveller will pass through Reykjavik and it is less than an hour away; there are connecting roads without returning to R. OP can decide for himself whether he has enough time according to his own style of travelling.

Try to create your trip on TripCreator.

There are tour companies that offer trips to Landmannalaugar all year round.

By helicopter certainly.

The people who run vehicle tours make it look from their adverts as if the winter vehicle tours run right up to the date when the summer vehicle tours run. But I don't think this can be true, though I'd be interested to learn otherwise. In any given year, I think there has to be an interim transition period when neither can run because you'd be breaking the law in one way or another. You can only drive the snow vehicles if the snow cover is sufficiently complete; you can only drive the land vehicles when the snow is sufficiently melted for the roads to be usable, and these don't line up without a gap. In particular there is a period when the snow has first melted off the road that they really don't want you driving the road because it causes a lot of damage.

Do you have an example of a tour operator your preferring to?

If you google the obvious phrase, it will come up in the first few hits.

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