We wanted to close our series of posts about our trip to Iceland with a few retrospective thoughts. You can have a trip planned out as meticulously as possible (ours was planned down to the minute when it came to driving from place to place), but you’ll always still end Read more…
I’ve gotten into the strange habit of doing my best to ride a horse in every country I go to, and after being lectured to specifically in class about how unique the Icelandic ponies are, there wasn’t really a question that I add another country to my list of places Read more…
We started our last full day in Iceland by driving 2.5 hours to Kirkjufellsfoss, what is often considered the most photographed place in the entire country – a beautiful waterfall with a vibrant green mountain looming behind it. Unfortunately for us, this was also the worst weather we had during Read more…
To start our 9th day in Iceland, we drove an hour and 15 minutes to Dynjandi waterfall. Once you get there, there’s a short hike up to the main waterfall, during which you pass several smaller waterfalls. The main waterfall is widely considered to look like a bridal veil, and Read more…
We spent the morning and beginning of the afternoon whale watching out of Húsavík, which is something I had never done before. I would have considered it a success if we had seen just one whale, but during our 2.5 hours on the water we saw several humpback whales and Read more…
After a few very busy days in a row, we were able to sleep in a little longer than we had been, which we both appreciated. A little more than 2.5 hours later, we arrived at Ásbyrgi Canyon, a large horse-shoe shaped canyon that legend says was formed by one of Read more…
We packed quite a bit into Day 6, and although I don’t have it written down anywhere, I think we got a pretty early start. First up was the 45 minute drive to Dettifoss and Selfoss, which are essentially right next to each other. It’s about a 10 minute walk Read more…
We woke up the next day feeling much better (and frankly quite glad to be alive) and completely surprised by the cutsie little fjord-side town of Seyðisfjörður. We didn’t have much planned for the day, as it was ultimately a stop-over campground to set us up better for the rest Read more…
We got an early start on Day 4 as well, since it was an hour’s drive to the beautiful (and unpronounceable) Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, and we wanted to be able to hike before it got busy. It turns out that was a very good idea, as there was fairly limited parking Read more…
We started our third day with a drive to Kerið Crater (50 minutes). Originally, this was part of our plans for day two, but since we got a late start that day and ran out of time, and had plenty of free time with what we had planned for the Read more…