Yes, the post a day series is out the window as I missed a day. And while I don't have time today either to do a full-on post summarizing our trip, I DO have time to post this handful of teaser photos from our past two weeks in Iceland, and I promise many many more will be coming after I get home and settled.
A VERY short summary of our time in Iceland so far:
Landed in Reykjavik, spent a few days there. Picked up a rental car and drove the whole Ring Road!!!! in 9 days and 3400+ km. Started with the "Golden Circle Tour" (Þingvellir Park, where the great rift between the North American and Eurasian plates is located....we walked in it!, the famous Geyser, and Goðafoss, the waterfall of the Gods). Then, we spent time on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, went up to the Westfjords (these two days of driving combined are the most beautiful I have EVER seen....even beat Scotland). From there, over to Akureyri (second biggest city in Iceland, population just around 20,000). Spent three days there, whale watching and kicking around town. Then over to the Eastfjords (Seyšisfjöršur, to be exact), after playing all day around Lake Mývatn in all the bubbling geothermal fields around the region and walking all over tons of geology :) We stopped at about one hundred places on our drive down to Skaftafell National Park, where we spent a breathtaking day snowmobiling on Vatnajokull glacier, the worlds third largest icecap (the largest outside of an arctic region!), and taking a boat ride in the Jökulsárlón lagoon.
Returned the car yesterday and spent today snorkeling in the rift mentioned above (amazing....), and exploring a cave :)
More to come after we spend our final two days in the Land of Fire and Ice!
A VERY short summary of our time in Iceland so far:
Landed in Reykjavik, spent a few days there. Picked up a rental car and drove the whole Ring Road!!!! in 9 days and 3400+ km. Started with the "Golden Circle Tour" (Þingvellir Park, where the great rift between the North American and Eurasian plates is located....we walked in it!, the famous Geyser, and Goðafoss, the waterfall of the Gods). Then, we spent time on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, went up to the Westfjords (these two days of driving combined are the most beautiful I have EVER seen....even beat Scotland). From there, over to Akureyri (second biggest city in Iceland, population just around 20,000). Spent three days there, whale watching and kicking around town. Then over to the Eastfjords (Seyšisfjöršur, to be exact), after playing all day around Lake Mývatn in all the bubbling geothermal fields around the region and walking all over tons of geology :) We stopped at about one hundred places on our drive down to Skaftafell National Park, where we spent a breathtaking day snowmobiling on Vatnajokull glacier, the worlds third largest icecap (the largest outside of an arctic region!), and taking a boat ride in the Jökulsárlón lagoon.
Returned the car yesterday and spent today snorkeling in the rift mentioned above (amazing....), and exploring a cave :)
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| Puffins! On the Latrrabjarg cliffs |
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| Post whale-watching in Husavik |
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| In the Lagoon....chunks of the glacier break off and stay here. This lagoon is growing exponentially by the year due to the glacier melting.....so sad |
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| Just out for a nice little Sunday drive....... |
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| One of the teeny towns we stopped in |
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| Waterfalls :) |
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| Hverir, a giant geothermal field in the middle-north of the Island |
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| Bubbling acid mud pots at the geothermal fields |
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| Volcanic lake |
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| Caving earlier this afternoon :) |
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