Hotel Hofdabrekka Vik
Myrdal Vik, 871, Iceland
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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 …
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Iceland's South Coast - Dramatic Country
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The town bus stops were often at a gas station/ convenience store. At the convenience store, the bus driver's timetable allocated time for a small break, giving folks the opportunity to grab a bite to eat, light a cigarette or find a bathroom. To my chagrin, the average gas station mini-mart was only stocked with junk food; potato chips, candy, hardly anything nutritious and nourishing except for the occasional yogurt. I vowed for my remaining bus ...
Iceberg lagoon, sea-stacks and waterfalls in South
... the side of the road and there are many fields full of Iceland's beloved horses, which are a distinct breed and no foreign horses are allowed in.
There are many small settlements, consisting often of just a few houses with the ruins of former habitations nearby, and a precipitous waterfall providing drinking water. These are very interesting as it seems that the old style was to build a very small house, pile rocks and soil on all sides and plant it. ...
Our vote for most scenic spot in Iceland
... are no trees. The mountains appear to be made of black volcanic sand upon which nothing but the bright, almost flourescent, green moss grows, which provides an exceedingly dramatic contrast. The moss follows channels so that the mountains will sometimes be striped black, green, black, green and so on. In other places nothing grows at all, such as the turn off to Landmannalaugar, beneath the notorious volcano Hekla (a volcano believed by some in ...
Views of Vik
... spectacle.
As we drive out of Vik towards Kirkjubaejarklaustur we spy in the distance golfers totally dwarfed by a huge sheer mountain. See if you can pick them out in the photo.
The drive to Kirkjubaejarklaustur has views punctuated with spectacular rugged mountains, scarred by deep valleys, waterfalls and the Myrdalsjokull glacier, the fourth largest in Iceland.
Our final drive in to Kirkjubaejarklaustur is across the south east ...



