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Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Selfoss August 26th 2011

Pingvellir was the original Icelandinc National Assembly. It's an open field in a beautiful setting.... read more
Pingvellir
Pingvellir

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík August 26th 2011

Tras dejar Husavik, el pueblo del norte de Islandia, comenzo una etapa que sin saberlo, acabaria siendo epica en el viaje. Nuestro plan era llegar a Akureyri en dos dias, haciendo parada en la maravillosa cascada de Godafoss para luego llegar a Akureyri al dia siguiente. Pero se juntaron una serie de circunstancias que hicieron que nuestros planes cambiaran, primero, el impredecible tiempo islandes nos dio una tregua (Alabado sea Thor!!!!, je, je) y segundo, despues de casi 20 dias dando pedales nos encontrabamos fuerte. Asi que llegamos a nuestro destino del dia, Godafoss, una etapa de 55 km, en solo 3 horas. Lo maravilloso de Islandia es que puedes pensar que tanta cascada puede llegar a aburrir, pero no, cada una tiene una caracteristica que la hace unica y diferente de las demas, y asi ... read more
Cascada de Godafoss
Tunel de lava formado en los acantilados de Snafelness
Llegada a Akureyri

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Selfoss August 25th 2011

Icelandic horses are known for their gentle demeanor. The hot springs that Iceland is famous for are used for lots of geothermal power generation plus local swimming pools in pretty well every town in Iceland.... read more
Horse Riding
Horse Riding
Horse Riding

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Selfoss August 24th 2011

Geysir is the original geyser. As you can see, Gulfoss is another of the wonderful Icelanding waterfalls.... read more
Gulfoss
Gulfoss
Gulfoss

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Landmannalaugar August 23rd 2011

Landsmannalaugar is full of wonderful hiking opportunities, but getting there is a little tough. A 4WD is highly recommended along with knowing how to use 4WD driving skills such as crossing rivers.... read more
River crossing
River crossing
Landmannalaugar

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík August 18th 2011

What a sad day; it's our last day in Iceland but the good thing is the Golden Circle Tour was on our agenda. This tour is another jam packed, 8 hour day, loaded with fun! Just like the last few days we were picked up at 8:30 and driven to the bus terminal where we transferred to another bus with about 15 people total on the tour. Our first stop today was our only stop yesterday, Þingvellir National Park. But today we stopped at the top of the park on a cliff overlooking the entire park, well as far as you can see at least. The Park is enormous and obviously can't be seen by the naked eye. We were able to see the sites we visited yesterday from a bird's eye view. It was quite ... read more
Rachel and I at Gullfoss
Rachel shooting at Gullfoss
S.W.A.T. Snowmobilers

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík » Kopavogur August 18th 2011

Við hjónakornin höfum ákveðið að halda úti ferðabloggi meðan á bakpokaferðinni stendur. Við leggjum af stað 3. september, byrjum í París þar sem við verðum í eina viku og þaðan fljúgum við svo til Frönsku Guyana, Surinam og Guyana. Þaðan ætlum við niður til Brasilíu og sigla niður Amazon. Að öðru leyti höfum við ekki skipulagt þetta mikið, við stefnum á að vera í Bólivíu um jólin og enda ferðina í Bandaríkjunum næsta vor, annars látum við okkur bara berast með straumnum. Undirbúningur stendur sem hæst, þessa dagana, flugmiðar, check! malaríutöflur, check! minniskort, check! vatnsheldar hlífar á bakpoka, check! Immodium, check! check! og svo sannarlega check! Ekki vill maður eyða allri ferðinni á dollunni! Við bloggum örugglega ekkert aftur fyrr en við erum farin í ferðina, fylgist endilega með :)... read more

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík August 17th 2011

Naturally with my lack of sleep over the last week my wake up call from Rachel came 15 minutes earlier because Dive.is was picking us up from the hotel between 8-8:30 so we had to be ready. Approximately 8:15 we were picked up by Kevin (from Ireland) and Stephen (from Germany). When they picked us up, a girl by the name of Mikala (also from Germany) was already in the van. We then picked up two more guys who were going to be diving. The one kid Edgar had 16 dives already under his belt, impressive! The ride to Þingvellir National Park was about 45 minutes-1 hour. I'm not quite sure because I was falling asleep, yet again. I forgot to mention the kid Stephen was driving the van and I'm not joking when I tell ... read more
Observing the view
Taking 35mm photos
Rachel peeking below

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík August 16th 2011

Our days have been starting off way too early. Sure 7:15 isn't early anymore by my standards since I wake up at 5:45 but I mean this is vacation and I can't even catch up on sleep. Today's trip consisted of a full day bus ride to a glacier, Halsanefshellir (black sand beach), Skogasafn museum, Skogafoss waterfall and Seljalandfoss waterfall. This trip was jam packed with cool stuff and it was definitely going to be an all day event. The first stop was the glacier; to get to that point it was just shy of a 2 hour drive. Even without a 2 hour ride I'm glad we decided to take a tour there because we would have NEVER of found this place! Once we turned off the main road there was a bumpy, rocky, rough ... read more
Halsanefshellir beach
View from basalt columns
In front of Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík August 15th 2011

Everyone get the Titanic reference? Good. Part 1 of today's adventure was whale watching, yay. The tour was to start at 9AM so we had another early morning getting up at 7:15 and eating some breakfast. I had some cheerios, granola, bread, orange juice and more cheerios with some apples on the side. After breakfast we went back to the room to make sure we were properly dressed for this whaling occasion. Whether you are a pirate, a viking or a crew member of The Deadliest Catch most of us have been on a commercial sized boat and know that the high seas can be a bit brisk. My getup for the day was tights, my snowboarding socks, pants, hiking boots, under armor, t-shirt and my snowboard jacket. In addition I wore gloves, a scarf and ... read more
Rachel bundled up
Minke whale surfacing




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