Archive - May 2019

WATERFALLS OF ICELAND

Today we traveled around the most famous waterfalls in the South of Iceland. – Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, and Gljúfrabúi. Seljalandsfoss is one of the best-known waterfalls in Iceland. It is 65 meters tall and it is breathtakingly beautiful. Just a few hundred meters away is...

REYKJAVÍK

We have got two sunny days in the city of Reykjavík, but we were busy with rim reparations, and on top of that one stupid driver crashed our truck. Anyway, we found great parking just in Old Harbour and from there we made some sightseeing in the city. Reykjavik is the capital city of the...

GARÐSKAGI

We made shortstop in Garðskagi, where we found two lighthouses, the older one and also the smaller of the two was once mentioned as one of the best lighthouses in Iceland. A new bigger 28 meters high lighthouse was built in 1944. At the moment the lighthouse is a radar transponder and it...

REYKJANESVÍTI

We spent today some time with wheel changing after we broke our rim and tire over the stone hidden in the sand. So the only later afternoon refreshing stop was Reykjanesvíti. It is the oldest lighthouse in Iceland, located on the tip of the Reykjanes Peninsula. Reykjanesvíti lighthouse...

SELTÚN

We have visited another colorful geothermal area is Seltún, which is located beneath Sveifluháls, on the Reykjanes peninsula in Southwest Iceland. Seltún is located some 40 km away from Reykjavík. At Seltún we saw both solfataras and fumaroles, bubbling mud pools and steaming hot springs...

ÞJÓRSÁRDALUR

We drove through the Þjórsárdalur Valley in the southern highlands of Iceland. Þjórsárdalur runs along the river Þjórsá, Iceland’s longest river. Where a tributary of this river, the Fossá, tumbles into the valley, it creates a nice waterfall Hjalparfoss. Búrfells woods are other natural...

GULLFOSS

We had another beautiful day in Iceland. Our first stop was ‘Golden Falls’ – Gullfoss is one of Iceland’s most iconic and beloved waterfalls, found in the Hvítá river canyon in south-west Iceland. The water in the Hvítá river travels from the glacier Langjökull, before cascading the first...

CAVE PEOPLE & GEYSIR

We made another shortstop by the “Cave People“, that we could see how a normal Icelandic family lived 100 years ago. The Caves have been renovated the way they looked when the last Cave People in Iceland lived there. Laugarvatnshellar is two man-made caves. Some have suggested the caves...

AKRANES & ÞINGVELLIR NP

On the way to Þingvellir National Park, we made a short stop at the abandoned Akranes lighthouse. In wintertime, this location is a popular place to shoot the Northern lights. Later we have explored Iceland’s oldest National Park and the only one listed in UNESCO. Park is covering an area...

ROAD 550

The Kaldidalsvegur (officially known as Road 550) is a highland track in Iceland, with a length of 40 km. It is a thrill to drive in Kaldidalsvegur. Driving the ring road in Iceland is one thing but driving off-road is another thing! The landscape of Kaldidalsvegur is mind-boggling...