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The Smelly Tour
Today was my volcano day. Since there aren't currently any active volcanoes in Iceland, I don't think, most of my tour today was about visiting the lava fields, old volcano craters, seeing what they had done, some still active thermal areas where there ...
Back at sea
I have a luxury bilge cabin this time only 6 shelves, sorry bunks instead of 9! I share the cabin with 4 others from the Czech Republic. Change into more comfortable clothes then up for breakfast on the Sky bar deck. Then settle down to the boredom of ...
Snaefellsnes is fun to say, try it!
... when we left the shelter of our campsite and hit the road. Everytime we experience what we naively presume to be the extreme of Iceland, it steps it up a notch or two. In this case, the force and extent of the wind made the Westfjords seem stagnantly ...
Night Photography
... afternoon nap I met up with Tony Prowers, my photo tour guide for the night. Tony is well known for his photo tours around Iceland and, having done a bit of research back home, I had decided to do a tour with him in the Skaftafell area. After a quick ...
Ash?
Haven't quite figured out how or why, but the sky in Reykjavik is currently filled with volcanic ash. Last I heard, Eyjafjallajökull stopped spewing ash 12 days ago. I just thought it was a cloudy day until someone informed me it was ash. Then I checked ...
Landmannalaugar Trek
These past few days we have been hearing all sorts of horror stories from this 4 days trek to Porsmork. All ranging from gale force winds that destroys tents, unstable rain that fills a glass in a matter of seconds, fog so tink you can't even see ...
Kirkjubaejarklaustur
Hi everyone, sorry I havn´t posted anything for a while. I have been in Landmannalaugar, and have not had any internet access or phones or anything really. Things are going okay. Landmannalaugar is a beautiful place, lots of colorful mountains. I have ...
Iceland's southernmost town
Hallo, naechster Stop in Islands suedlichster Stadt (suedlicher als Heimaey auf den Westmann-Inseln). Hier habe ich mir mal wieder eine Jugendherberge geleistet, damit ich endlich mal wieder Internet und eine Dusche habe:-) Habe allerdings Probleme eine ...
Day 10. Snaefellsnes
... not as well run, but getting a chance to hoot around on a snowmobile was worth it anyway. This will be my last post for my Iceland trip as I fly out tomorrow. It's impossible to sum Iceland up in a couple sentences so all I will say is, if you have the ...
Overnight in Iceland
No time to visit Reykavik, so just a quick overnight in Keflavik near the ...
Blaue Lagune
... sogar mein "Dive where the Continents meet" ausfallen) Viele Grüße ins Aschebedeckte Deutschland Lorenz und Sonia P.S. Haben heute ein T-Shirt mit sehr treffender Aufschrift gefunden: Don't FUCK with Iceland. We may not have cash but we do have the ash. ...
All the Way There; And Back Again
This will be the last entry. I realized that it didn't sound like we DID a lot while in Iceland. Also, I realize that I have a number of good pictures left that didn't get into any of the other entries. As far as the doing goes, our package included the ...
The Land of Leif Ericsson
... and Scandinavia. In order to fully explore Reykjavik, one does not require much time. Although it is Iceland’s largest metropolis, Reykjavik has a small town feel and a population of just over 200,000 people out of the ...
Sheep, Horses and Trees: Part III
... the ability for the trees to spread naturally. Little seedlings probably get ripped out and eaten. In his book "Collapse", Jared Diamond writes in detail about the destruction of the Iceland ecosystem by the Viking settlers. Worth taking a look ...
I grow to hate big wheel 4x4s
Another grey start to the day not that thee is any night. An early shower has dried up in the biting wind. I have breakfast, bread ham, cheese, the last of my tinned fruit and Skyr and go for a wander about. It is still bitterly cold. ...
Arrivée à Reykjavik!
Lundi 07 juillet : voyage depuis Paris puis arrivée à l'aéroport de Keflavik. Première balade dans la soirée à Reykjavik, avec une lumière magnifique sur la baie (voir al photo de la sculpture bateau vikng !) ...
séjour à Skaftafell
On s'arrête au milieu de la faille qui traverse l'Islande, à l'un des endroits les plus larges. Oups, pas toujours facile de traverser les gués ! Là ce n'est pas notre bus, mais le notre aussi, il est tombé dans l'eau... Ouf, merci le bus de ...
Sur la route du retour : Vik, macareux et cascades
Vendredi 18 juillet : Transfert vers Vik, sa plage de sable noir et ses macareux. Petit extrait des photos de macareux... En fait, Yannick en a pris des centaines ! Samedi 19 juillet : Retour vers Reykjavik Premier ...
Akureyri rhymes with Tipperary, doesn't it?
... boring, at least to me, so I only stayed for about 15 minutes. Ho hum. I carried on until I arrived at Akureyri, Iceland's 2nd biggest city with a whopping population of 15,139 according to my Lonely Planet, where I'd be staying the next two nights. ...
Short stopover in Reykjavik
Hallo, von Vik bin ich zurueck nach Reykjavik gefahren. Immer wieder interessant der Wechsel der Perspektive. Als ich in Island vor zwei Wochen gelandet bin dachte ich, was fuer ein kleines provinzielles Nest. Nun, aus Island kommend kommt mir Reykjavik ...
Day 4. Vik to Skaftefell
... the road and are in the Skaftefell National Park. I headed to the Info Centre and signed up for a Glacier Tour (with the Iceland Mountain Guides company). I had some time to spare so I wandered up to the Svartifoss waterfall, which was quite nice due to ...
Day 11: July 17, 2007 Hike to Skeiðarárjökull
Day 11: July 17, 2007 Hike to Skeiðarárjökull After another great night's sleep we had breakfast and left for the morning hike. First, we walked a couple of kilometers ...
Windy AND windy Westfjords wanderings
... population back in the day. The next day we wound around gorgeous fjords in the sunshine. More than anywhere else in Iceland, the landscape of Westfjords often reminds me of the highcountry of Glacier National Park, of course in my mind replacing the ...
The land of Ice
... like steak lightly sautéed in petrol. Our guide had earlier told us that there was at least one active whaling station in Iceland and locals apparently still ate the giant of the seas hence it being on local menu's..... It’s also probably the ...
Shooting sheep and a minor miracle
... was at the hotel and I dined on vegetable cutlets in a peanut sauce and some tomato soup. It's the healthiest food I've had in Iceland. It was pretty good, but not altogether memorable. The rest of the evening, it was just me & Captain Corelli - a fine ...
Iceland Water Works
We had a great first day in Iceland! We went to an amazing waterfall called Gullfoss, where we saw a glacier in the distance probably around the same size as Lake Tahoe. The next stop we came to was a geyser field that had the second largest geyser ...