On May 23rd, 2015, a friend and me took our flight from Helsinki to Oslo, where we would get the flight to Reykjavik. The travel time was long, but since we were heading east, we were going back in time, sort of.
Last part ended in Höfn, which is not where this one begins. Nothing else happened there. We kept on our way on route 1, heading back west through the southern coast of Iceland. There was a remarkable difference in the vegetation color as we headed south. From the dead looking…
Damn, day 3 was a long one. So I’m going to split it in 2 posts. The first part continues from where we stopped. Hvammstangi was the place we spent the second night in Iceland. A small (as usual) village in the coast, near to the main route 1 of Iceland. We woke up early and…
Our second day in Iceland started at early morning, as we left Búðardalur, our stop for sleeping in the day before, for the West Fjords. The roads in this area are not great, to say the least. The weather is also not helpful, as you can go from a sunny day to super dense fog in a matter…
We woke up to a very beautiful view of the ocean in Vik. The day was warm and sunny, and we took to the road without wasting time. First we drove around the city for a bit, which is a really nice village. Perhaps the highlight of Vik is the little church that overlooks the city and the ocean from…
Part 1 ended with us leaving the Krafla volcano in northern Iceland. After that we got back on route 1 and headed to the mighty Dettifoss, a little more to the east. Dettifoss is huge. It is rumored to be the most powerful waterfall in Europe, and is indeed the one with the…
It seems that each day that passed we did more and more things, and I shot more and more pictures. On Day 4 we took to the Eastern Fjords, deviating from Route 1 so we could take our time to skirt the mountains and enjoy the beautiful landscapes of the fjords. The day…