Travelling — Iceland

trecking around Iceland - 16

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Return to the origin, like a dream A few days, twice departing from Reykjavik .First, from the south coast to the north shore of the island,magnificent waterfalls,black windy beach, unique tundra, dreamlike glacial lakes,cold glaciers, unexpected snowfields,exotic like geothermal; another is through the West Bank to the north shore of the island,holy Chapel Hill,rugged lava coast, lonely sea boulder.Now return to Reykjavik , all return to the origin, also means that we near the end of the trip to Iceland. Day 13. Vatnsnes ->Reykjavík [220km] The most northern capital of the world - Reykjavik Iceland’s capital is Reykjavik, which is...

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trecking around Iceland - 15, Towards Grundarfjörður, to the Giant Stone in the sea

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 Standing Giant Day 12. Grundarfjörður -> Vatnsnes [212km] Although we have skipped the rugged road of western fjords, but Snæfellsnes go to the Vatnsnes more than two hundred kilometers. This still regarded as the worst traffic of Iceland , nearly two hundred kilometers,almost entirely unpaved gravel road,bumpy nearly six hours, just for that one standing in the sea of boulders. (learned from experience, from Snæfellsnes , around the period of the long way back to Highway 1 and continue north, full multi approached fifty kilometers,but the road may be much better that figure above the gray line.) In the Vatnsnes...

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trecking around Iceland -14, Snæfellsjökull, which I call it Lava Coast

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-------------------Lava Coast----------------- The  Chapel Hill is photography holy and Jerry like it so much in the early time,so i make a stroke with a pen ,stay for two days in Sn?fellsnes , with good weather ,exactly make a lot of good thing. Of course,you can not wandering around the same mountain in two days, the rest of the time, we spanning Sn?fellsnes, visit the southern coastline of the peninsula, part of the Snæfellsjökull National Park. Day 11. Snæfellsjökull-> Arnarstapi) -> The Lóndrangar Cliffs -> Djúpalónssandur Beach [136km] Snæfellsjökull is a volcano  covered by glaciers,do you feel  familiar about the names? She is...

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Trecking arround Iceland - 11, Met Double Rainbow in Dettifoss

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D6 Hverir -> Dettifoss -> Goðafoss->Akureyri[233km]    The last day of the first half Iceland trip, it's a sunny day.facing the sun, all the way west.We meet three waterfalls. The 11 days in Iceland, we visited a total of no less than ten waterfalls,this is only the many well-known waterfalls in Iceland part. Ten waterfall, different patterns, no fatigue.  Geothermal areas under a blue sky, an entirely different view. ------------------------------------Dettifoss, Selfoss & Goðafoss-----------------------------  Dettifoss is Europe's largest water falls, We could not feel at all during the 30 kilometers on the way.It's a desolate road,driving through the dusty, we feel...

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trecking around Iceland - 13, photoes on Kirkjufell, the church mountain, the view is different every munite

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------------------The landscape of the peninsula-------------Goodbye to the beautiful Arctic Greenland, return to the Reykjavik of Iceland. And continue to travel around the Iceland, to finish the rest of Iceland. For this time, we will walk the way north and the west coast. We stay in the two peninsulas, the Snæfellsnes of the west and Vatnsnes of the north. In three days, surging in the the beautiful views, and sunrise and sunset. Day 10. Reykjavík ->Grundarfjörður  Driving again,the second half of Iceland trip, we change the most common and cheapest four-wheel drive - Suzuki Jimny. This is the coolest car what we...

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