16 May 2019
Kolgrafafjörður
The last leg of the trip back to Reyjkavik, looking north up this scenic bay. I mean, they’re all super scenic, of course.
16 May 2019
Kirkjufell
Kirkjufell (“Church Mountain”) standing majestically by itself on the peninsula’s north coast.
12 May 2019
Downstream from Hafragilsfoss
… and I get why, because this bit of the Jökullsá á Fjöllum (“glacial river in the mountains”) is really quite lovely. Nice walls with cool geology layers, twists and turns, a black sandbank, the works. 10/10 would hike here again. The river, born in the massive Vatnajökull glacier far to the south, has about […]
12 May 2019
Goðafoss
“Waterfall of the gods”. There’s a story, though dating back only to 19th century Denmark, that around 1000 CE Iceland’s chief lawmaker threw his statues of Norse gods into the falls as a sign that he was accepting the new Christian religion and signalling other chiefs to do so. Some historians have suggested the name […]
