Hveravellir to Laugarvatn part 1
Hveravellir to Laugarvatn The day starts miserable, it’s cold, it rains, there is no view. No hiking for us then. Instead we take the car to the absolutely stunning Kerlingarfjöll. It’s ocher gravel hills, hot springs running in between, steam is rising – so awesome we don’t mind the snowstorm.
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Myvatn to Hveravellir
Myvatn to Hveravellir After a hot chocolate with view on the ducklings, we are off again to see some of the many things Myvatn has to offer. We could easily spend a few days here, there’s lots to do. But as we plan to cross over the highlands on the way back to Rekjavik, we […]
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Seydisfjördur to Myvatn part 2
Afterwards we drive to lake Myvatn, having another lunch inside the car, too windy outside. Myvatn is a very pretty lake in the northeast, with lots of things to do and see around it. We get to see two more waterfalls on the way, the mighty Dettifoss where you get to have a shower in […]
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Seydisfjördur to Myvatn part 1
Best morning in Iceland! We drive from our fjördur to Borgarfjördur Eystri. It’s a super tiny village (luckily though including a petrol station, it would have been a long way to push the car back to town) with about 30’000 pairs of nesting puffins. There is a small harbor with a viewing platform where you […]
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Skaftafell to Seydisfjördur – part 1
To avoid the rain in Skaftafell we drive another 8km and pitch our tent in Svinafell, another nice campsite and without rain. The weather is very local here, especially close to the glaciers. Luckily it stopped raining in Skaftafell overnight and we get back there in the morning for the walk to the Skaftafellsjökull glacier […]
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Seljalandsfoss to Skaftafell – part 1
Seljalandsfoss to Skaftafell In the morning we visit the interesting Eyjafjallajökull visitor center (almost as difficult to write as it is to pronounce it) where they show a movie on how the 2010 eruption impacted the farmers living right below the volcano. We eat an excellent carrot cake at the glacial tongue of Sólheimjökull and […]
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Landmannalaugar to Seljalandsfoss – part 2
Landmannalaugar to Seljalandsfoss Starting the day with a morning hike and then another ride on the F roads back to the main Ring Road. Lunch is a pot of soup between the two front seats, too cold and windy to eat outside. We visit Skogafoss and Seljalandsfoss, and after a short look at both campsites […]
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Landmannalaugar to Seljalandsfoss part 1
Landmannalaugar to Seljalandsfoss Starting the day with a morning hike and then another ride on the F roads back to the main Ring Road. Lunch is a pot of soup between the two front seats, too cold and windy to eat outside. We visit Skogafoss and Seljalandsfoss, and after a short look at both campsites […]
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Iceland – Keflavik to Landmannalaugar – part 2
8 days of Iceland, almost 2000km in our rented 4WD car with the unpronounceable name, spectacular landscapes with geysers, so many waterfalls, moss-covered lava fields, ice capped volcanoes, glaciers and in the highlands, desert-like plains of ash. One could point out that later can get a bit boring though… We started with the classic […]
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Iceland – Keflavik to Landmannalaugar – part 1
8 days of Iceland, almost 2000km in our rented 4WD car with the unpronounceable name, spectacular landscapes with geysers, so many waterfalls, moss-covered lava fields, ice capped volcanoes, glaciers and in the highlands, desert-like plains of ash. One could point out that later can get a bit boring though… We started with the classic […]
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