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Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík September 10th 2015

Opustame vychodne fjordy a mierime na sever. Kedze nas po ceste zo zaciatku nic zaujimave necakalo zobrali sme to oklukou cez jeden horsky priesmyk. Nasa Toyotka so svojim pidi motorcekom to ledva zvladla vytiahnut hore na dvojku ale vysledok stal za to. Vyhlad zhora bol fantasticky. Len vietor bol taky ze sme ledva stali na nohach. Potom uz nas cakala dlha cesta po bezchybnej asfaltke, kde sme asi 70 kilometrov nestretli jedine auto a na jej konci len lavova planina s roklinou a najkrajsim vodopadom aky sme doteraz videli - Dettifoss. Kto videl film Prometheus nech si spomenie na uvodnu scenu. Vybrali sme sa k nemu po strasnej 30 kilometrov dlhej rozbitej prasnej ceste ale vdaka tomu sme k nemu prisli presne z tej filmovej strany. Keby sme chceli mozme sa ho dotknut. Dalsi den nas ... read more
Rozlucka s fjordami
More lavy pred nami
Dettifoss

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík July 26th 2015

Sunday 26th July Our tour guide cooked us breakfast in the hostel at Reykjahlio then we packed and piled back into the minibus for the drive of about 70 km to Husavik. Husavik is a town of 2000+ inhabitants on the shore of Skjalfandi bay on Iceland's north coast. This town is considered one of the better places to see whales because of the variety of different species that are known to frequent this bay and we had a three hour whale watching trip booked for 10 am with the North Sailing whale watching company. The weather was very calm and it only took 15-20 minutes to get to the point well into the bay where we would spend the next couple of hours. There were two other larger boats like ours out there, along with ... read more
Husavik Harbour
Me all geared up for whale watching
Asbyrgi

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík April 5th 2015

In the morning I pack up my stuff ready for my hostel switch - luckily I only have my small daysack. It's a different guy on reception and he's a bit bemused by my terse complaint about the room situation and tries to make out that I should have known that the hostel wouldn't be quiet as it's in a downtown location. Funny that, I'd just spent almost a week of peaceful bliss in Reykjavik DOWNTOWN hostel - Reykjavik - that's the capital city - maybe you've heard of it! The sarcasm was flowing thick and fast - not sure his English was up to my nuanced tirade of sleep deprived wit, but he eventually refunded my my stay - or at least that's what I thought he'd done - I found out later he'd only ... read more
Crossing the fjord at Akureyri on the way to Husavik
Tiger striped melted snow
North Sailing boat in Husavik harbour

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík July 8th 2014

Day 6 It was showering with rain when we woke but it cleared before we drove to see the Goðafoss waterfall. It was certainly coat and gloves weather but it was good hiking weather. We then drove another 40-odd km to lake Mývatn which is one of the biggest lakes in Iceland. Next was Skútustaðir, a little further down the road where there are pseudo-craters. These were formed when the geo-thermal pressures underneath the soil came up at various points and raised some hillocks. Fascinating! A little further along the shores of the Lake was Dimmuborgir which is where a beautiful lava labyrinth with very strange lava formations can be observed, which provide shelter for the abundant vegetation. We walked about 4 kms around to see all the different forms of the lava. Another 15 minutes ... read more
Godafoss Waterfall (9)
Husavik (3)
Puffin Island - Lundey near Husavik (66)

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík July 16th 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH2mpLarvsg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU8Wvx1lR2E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxqwonpFkU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5V-Y0LLoQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnBlLZGcqW4 After our night in the Hi Hostel in Hofn we were back on the road again and set off again for a full-days drive to the North. Weather wise this was the worst day of the trip so I was glad that it wasn’t wasted as would be in the car most of the day. It rained all day and our route through the mountains was enveloped in mist. We were driving from South East Iceland up the East coast to our destination at roughly the northernmost point just 60km from the Arctic circle in Husavik. This part of Iceland is sparsely inhabited and we only passed a few cars outside the main towns. It took over 6 hours to get to our first destination which was Dettifoss which as ... read more
Dettifoss
Dettifoss
Dettifoss

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík August 18th 2011

Y seguimos pedaleando... Tras el ultimo post en Vik, al sur de Islandia, nuestro viaje en bici por estos lares ha continuado hasta el otro lado de la Isla, Husavik, un pequenho pueblo de pescadores del Norte de Islandia. Tras dejar el agradable Youth Hostal donde nos quedamos en Vik encaramos, a priori, dos de las etapas mas duras del viaje: Vik-Klustur y Klustur-Skaftaffel. La primera fueron 76 km atravesando lenguas de glaciares y paisajes deserticos...parece idilico, pero a veces en la bici la realidad es otra, los Km pasan lentamente, te empieza a doler el culo y la espalda, tienes hambre, sed...pero claro, miras a tu izquierda y ves un gigante de hielo y miras a la derecha y ves un paisaje de cenizas volcanicas que mueren en la misma orilla del Atlantico, una pasada. ... read more
Skaftafoss
Laguna en medio del glaciar
Impresionante lengua del glaciar

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík May 16th 2010

Le 16 mai, Aujourd'hui, on se lève à 8:00, il fait beau. Nous avons une grosse journée de prévue. On déjeune dans notre belle petite cuisine puis on prend la direction d'Husavik, petite ville côtière célèbre pour être un bon point de départ pour partir en mer voir des baleines. Par contre, nous avons décidé de laisser tomber cette activité. Le froid d'hier nous a dissuadé d'aller faire un tour sur l'océan Arctique, et Carl est plus que sujet au mal de mer. Je pense que simplement parler de bateau lui donne mal au coeur... Après une heure de route, on arrive à Husavik. C'est très mignon, le petit village est enclavé dans un cirque de montagnes enneigées et vers la gauche, on a une belle vue sur des fjords avec d'autres montagnes enneigées. L'océan est ... read more
¨ca y est, je me prends pour une baleine
L'extérieur du musée du phallus
Vers le cadran solaire

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík August 21st 2008

Today was spent exploring the area around Lake Myvatn. Lake Myvatn is famous, bizarrely, for having a huge midge and mosquito population... in fact it's what the area is named for!! We began our day with a walk around the lake, which is Iceland's fourth largest and apparently the world's most fertile spot on a similar latitude. Mývatn is a shallow eutrophic lake situated in the area of active volcanism in the north of Iceland, not far from Krafla volcano. The lake was created by a large basaltic lava eruption 2,300 years ago, and the surrounding landscape is dominated by volcanic landforms, including lava pillars and pseudocraters. It is apparently a paradise for bird watchers but I failed to spot many. We did see eider ducks, red throated divers and the great northern diver but for ... read more
Craters
Stone pile by Hverfjall Crater
Walking on top of the volcano

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík July 27th 2008

Zaceli bomo s prejsnjim vecerom, ki si definitivno zasluzi vec pozornosti. Sli sva torej v Myvatn Natural Baths razvajati svoje utrujene misice. Scena je bila sicer ze na prvi pogled bolj amaterska kot v Blue Lagoon (kaki cipi v zapestnicah, omarice se odpirajo povsem old school z navadnim kljucem!), ampak sva pa uzivali v povsem naravnem okolju - in med napisi Danger, 100 degrees!, lepo prosim - do enajstih ponoci. Ker pa je bilo takrat se dokaj svetlo, pa ceprav se, neverjetno, a resnicno, ze opazi, da se dan krajsa, sva sli se na en midnight sightseeing. Na vrsti so bile t.i. podzemne terme, ki sva jih cez dan preskocili. Po dveh kilometrih popolnoma zjebane ceste (in Jimmy we trust) sva prispeli na cilj, in nisva bili edini. And did we see something! Zakadili sva se ... read more
Godafoss
Godafoss
Whale touching

Europe » Iceland » North » Húsavík June 27th 2007

All my life I’ve been fascinated by whales. Not sure what is the attraction of these majestic mammals, but I suspect my interest begun way back in the days at the Natural History Museum, in their Blue Zone gallery. For a 6-year old, a room full of natural-sized whale models can be quite exciting. Now, when people have realized that whale safaris are a rather lucrative business, luckily they are worth as much alive as they are dead, killed by modern whalers. One great spot for watching whales is Iceland. Their cold waters inhabit a large number of various species of whales. So when I finally decided to go to Iceland, whale watching was on top of my list of things to do. Of all whales, my favorite is the orca, also known as the killer ... read more




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