Last-minute 10-day road trip adventure in Iceland. The ‘land of fire and ice’ couldn’t describe it better -it’s a land of volcanoes, lava fields, and ice – due to its extreme proximity to the arctic circle.
We did the majority of our sleeping and eating in a VW Polo (for all North Americans, it’s smaller than a golf). I can successfully say that it is possible for someone clocking in at 5’9″/175cms to (almost) fully extend in a Polo/Golf. Our hygiene was maintained at normal standards thanks to Iceland’s abundance of geothermal activity and countless hot pools. The one negative to enjoying natural geothermal pools is that my bathing suit and towel still smell like sulphur.
The weather was interesting, ranging from seasonal averages of -8 to an extreme wind storm which then brought warm weather conditions for the second half of the trip. 10 degrees at the end of November at 64 degrees latitude? We were lucky.
Olympus EPL-5.
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- Freezing as it falls
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- Where the eurasian and north american continental plates separate
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- Empty tourist cabins in the late sun
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- Geysir. The geysir all other geysirs are named after.
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- Geysir
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- Geysir. 2 pant layers, 4 top layers. Not warm.
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- Open roads
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- Isolated houses
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- Small towns
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- Morning water break
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- Water break turned to ice break
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- Snæfellsnes peninsula
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- Snæfellsnes peninsula
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- Snæfellsjökull
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- Surfing the Snæfells’
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- Moss trying to catch any light possible
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- Dem crazy eyes
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- Stykkishólmur – not a person around, nor restaurant open
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- Our second mini aurora borealis sighting
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- Moon and aurora
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- Stykkishólmur’s Lutheran church
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- Stykkishólmur
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- Where 80% of Iceland’s shark rests to ferment
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- Fermenting shark
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- No emotion
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- Skógafoss
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- Skógafoss
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- Vík í Mýrdal
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- Vík í Mýrdal
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- Vík í Mýrdal
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- Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon
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- Bite of Jökulsárlón
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- Jökulsárlón
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- A long underwear kind of morning
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- Svartifoss
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- Svartifoss
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- 9:30 am sunrise
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- Hveragerði: en route to our morning cleanse/hot spring
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- Hveragerði
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- Hveragerði
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- Hveragerði
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- Fish fermenting just off the road
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- Natural hot springs, no matter the size of the village
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- Reykjavik
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- Reykjavik
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- Reykjavik’s Lutheran church
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- Aurora Borealis en route to Bárðarbunga [Photo taken by Stephan]
