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Asbyrgi

This canyon is huge, it´s hard to get a good photo of it. It´s a horseshoe shape, and legend is that it was formed when Sleipnir, 8-legged horse of the god Odin, set a hoof down here.
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June 25th 2008
Woohoo! I can upload photos! I think I´ll make this one a relatively quick overview of the last few days, and do a few seperate detailed posts with pics for the past week. I spent Monday hiking around Myvatn - through a small forest that looked like something that belonged in a dinosaur movie with rocky lava outcroppings, past a fissure that had a hot spring in it, through a desert, up a mou ... read more
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