End location: Stykkisholmur (Snaefellsnes & the West)
Route travelled: Roads 54, 558 & 574 around the Snaefellsnes peninsula. Anti clockwise around coastal roads.
Distance travelled: 319 km
Accommodation: Hotel Stykkisholmur
Sites visited:
Berserkjahraun lava field - area of scoria lava originating from four craters & three different eruptions around 4,000 years ago.
Snaefellsjokull National Park - 4 to 5 hour walk to the summit but best to go on escorted walks during the summer due to large crevasses that open up on the glacier.
Snaefellsjokull - 4,743ft active strato volcano, capped in ice that has built up over the last 70,000 years. Largest & last eruption 1,750 years ago. First climbed in 1754. Iceland’s second most famous volcano (after Hekla) & was used as a scene in Jules Verne’s in ‘Journey to the centre of the earth’.
Memorial to Laugarbrekka (Laugarbakki) - Birthplace of Gudridur Porbjarnardottir, one of the heroines of the Norse discovery of Greenland (AD1000).
Hellnar - small fishing village beneath the Snaefellsjokull glacier & famed for its strange rock formations.
Helgafell - translates to ‘Holy Mountain’. A 240ft hill. According to local folklore, those who climb Helgafell for the first time will have three wishes come true. This is if the following conditions are observed:- Climb in silence, don’t look back, make the wishes facing east, make benevolent wishes & don’t tell anyone what they are.
Trip notes: Discovered that at petrol stations not only do you fill up with petrol, you wash your car for free so you can see out of the windows.
Photo notes: 36 - 69
36. Sunrise
37. Road 54 & Road 58 junction
38. Inside Berserkjahraun lava field - Road 558
39. Inside Berserkjahraun lava field
40. Inside Berserkjahraun lava field
41. Road 54 going towards Grundarfjordur
42. Road 54 going towards Grundarfjordur
43. Road 54 looking back at Grundarfjordur
44. Steeple shaped mountain Kirkjufell
If you want to see what this area of coast looks like in the snow, see http://www.youngsfish.co.uk/web/tv.asp & view the TV advert. The Icelandic part of the advert is filmed from the sea on this coast.
45. Road 54 waterfall
46. Olasfvik village
47. Road 54 sign for Snaefellsjokull glacier
48. Road to Snaefellsjokull glacier
49. Views from Road 574 in National Park
50. Views from Road 574 in National Park
51. Views from Road 574 in National Park
52. Pufubjarg sea stacks
53. Snaefellsjokull National Park Sign
54. Memorial to Laugarbrekka
55. Hellnar
56. Hellnar
57. Glimpse of snow on glacier
58. View from Kerlingarskard ‘Trolls Wife’s Pass’ Road 56
59. View from Kerlingarskard
60. View from Kerlingarskard
61. View from Road 54
62. View from Road 54
63. View from Road 54
64. View from Road 54
65. Road 56 near Stykkisholmur
66. Helgafell ‘Holy Mountain’ off Road 56
67. Helgafell
68. Helgafell
69. Helgafell
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