Iceland is becoming a more and more popular travel destination, and I think it’s a good thing, as long as tourists respect the fragile and sensitive environment you can find over there, especially in the Highlands. People deserve to experience this magical place and enjoy raw nature at its best. It’s a unique experience...
Memories from Iceland – Black & White photo challenge, Day 5
I was invited by Diana and Jim from exploRVistas, full-time RVers, to take part in a five days black and white photo challenge. At the beginning, I was a bit skeptic, because I’m not used to do black and white pictures but all in all, that was a great experience, I’m glad I did it...
Icelandic Road Trip – More glaciers, more icebergs
After a very long day, we were glad to arrive at our guesthouse. We were exhausted ! Our accommodation was in a horse farm near Höfn. The surroundings were wonderful, with the mountains and the ocean nearby. The horses were interesting to look at even if they were a bit noisy at night 🙂 The...
Icelandic Road Trip – The first time I laid my eyes on icebergs
After the hike to the black waterfall, we took our little car and hit the road again towards the famous Jökulsárlón. On our way, we spotted a small sign marked Svínafellsjökull, pointing towards an ice tongue and we decided to give it a go. After a bumpy ride, we came right next to a wonderful glacier....
Icelandic Road Trip – Hiking to Svartifoss, the black waterfall
After driving through the world’s largest plain of lava gravel, we arrived at the visitor centre of Skaftafell National Park. Regarding the time, we decided to do only a short hike to the Svartifoss Waterfall (4km round-trip), also called the black waterfall. The waterfall is surrounded by dark lava columns, which gave its name....
Icelandic Road Trip – Columnar basalt formations and more waterfalls !
After visiting Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, we went back on the ring road heading towards Höfn. We stopped at an interesting rock formation on our way : Kirkjugólf. These flat basalt columns are situated at the east of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Once at the Kirkjubaejarklaustur round-about, we took the direction to Geirland. 600 m ahead, there was a small parking lot and a...
Icelandic Road Trip – Searching for the Enchanted Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon
After a good night of sleep in a little cabin situated near Reynisfjara Beach, we left quite early again, took the ring road and the first stop was Hjörleifshöfði, a 221 meters turf rock promontory at 12 km from Vik. It was raining so much that we couldn’t really leave the car… at that time,...
Icelandic Road trip – Exploring Dyrhólaey Peninsula and Reynisfjara Beach
After seeing the iconic waterfalls of the South coast, we headed towards Vik and Reynisfjara Beach, a black sand beach with incredible basalt columns that looks like a giant staircase. A bit further away, there was a basalt sea cave, Hálsanefshellir. It’s inaccessible at high tide, but we were lucky to be there at...
Icelandic Road trip – Beautiful waterfalls in South Iceland
After a good lunch at Urriðafoss waterfall, we continued further away on the ring road 1 to finally reached Seljalandsfoss waterfall (roughly one hour later). There is a little path to go behind the waterfall, but you will end up wet if you do it, believe me, we saw so many people completely soaked !! It...
Icelandic Road trip – Bird spotting at Krýsuvíkurberg Cliffs
Since we arrived in Iceland in late afternoon, we didn’t do much the first day, other than visiting Hafnaberg Cliffs and do some shopping, stocking up on food for the rest of our trip. The next day, we got up quite early because we had a lot of stuff to do and see ! First stop...