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Driving to Vik
We turned the radio up loud and headed out. Past blue mountains, a rainbow and all those green chunky fields. I'd read Summer at Little Lava by Charles Fergus--and remembered his description of thufur--the frozen bits of ground that jut up here and there. Farmers who've grown accustomed to negotiating these thufurs, find it difficult to walk …
Bucket List: Aurora Borealis. Check.
"The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment."
- Wallace Stevens, Poet
It would pop up in the sky, green light in pitch blackness. At first you can't tell if they are clouds, with a glow to them. But then you see them quickly …
The South coast and the Aurora Borealis
Yesterday was an amazing day! First I went on a trip to see the southern coast which was very beautiful. We travelled to the town of Vik and saw the rock pillars of Reynisdrangar which are lava formations emerging out of the sea up to 66m high.We also visited the amazing waterfalls of Skogafoss (60m high) and Seljalandsfoss (40m high). Seljalandsfoss waterfall is really spectacular and you are able ...
Vik through Seljalandsfoss and Skogafoss
On our way to Vik i Myrdal, we stopped twice to admire two beautiful waterfalls :
* the first one, Seljalandsfoss. The most amazing thing about this waterfall is the fact that you can walk behind it and see this wall of water flowing in front of you!
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Such a cool day
... enough in size to flow our of the mouth, down the river and into the sea. We followed the bank of the small river and found ourselves standing on a black sand beach surrounded by large lumps of ice. In the mouth of the river inlet big chunks of ice were being washed ashore, and we spent some time in that surreal place filling the camera. After wandering back and taking another look at the area, we drove across the bridge to the other side and set off ...