End location: Lake Myvatn (Northeast Iceland)
Route travelled: Clockwise from Lake Myvatn on Road 1 & Road 87 via Husavik then on Road 85 around the Tjornes peninsula. South on Road 864 for Dettifoss Waterfall & then back on Road 1 to head back to Lake Myvatn area.
Distance travelled: 483.3 km (includes distance travelled on 8th September also)
Accommodation: Hotel Reynihlid
Sites visited:
Husavik - translates to ‘House bay’ & named by the Swedish Viking, Gardar Svavarsson in AD850 after his mother had seen Iceland in a dream. The cross haped church in Husavik is counted as one of Iceland’s most attractive churches. It holds 450 people & when it was built in 1907, the population was only 500.
Asbyrgi - located in Jokulsargljufur National Park (glacial river canyon), Asbyrgi is one of the parks gems & is a great horse shoe canyon. The first Viking settlers thought that it had be formed by Sleipnir, the god Odin’s flying horse. A 330ft cliff face makes a 1km wide ring around lush greenery with smaller outcrops of cliffs, called Eyjan (islands) rises in the middle. Geologists claim that the canyon was created by a large glacial flow after a eruption under the icecap of Vatnajokull.
Dettifoss - Europe’s largest waterfall & took some effort to get to it (but worth it) bone rattling road for 26km. White dust clouds signal oncoming cars from several kilometres away & also can see the spray from the waterfall from 7km away. Had to scramble over & down blocks of grey lava & a single rope barrier at the edge of the ravine. 500 cubic meters fall over the ledges every second. Only 145ft high but an awesome spell binding sight.
Hverfjall - formed 2,500 years ago a steep path runs up the side of the crater which is made entirely of loose volcanic rubble (or tephra). The crater is 3,280ft wide & visitors have left messages in white rocks in the middle of the crater.
Trip notes: Where Jackie, Pete & I discovered we weren’t really stalking each other.
Photo notes: 140 - 173
140. View across Skjalfandi Bay (on boat)
141. Boat from Whale Watching in Husavik
142. Gentle Giants
143. Husavik Church
144. Tjornes peninsula
145. Tjornes peninsula
146. Tjornes peninsula
147. Asbyrgi, Jokulsa Canyon National Park
148. Asbyrgi
149. Asbyrgi
150. Asbyrgi
151. Dettifoss Waterfall, Road 864
152. Dettifoss Waterfall
153. Dettifoss Waterfall
154. Dettifoss Waterfall
155. Dettifoss Waterfall
156. Dettifoss Waterfall
157. Dettifoss Waterfall
158. Dettifoss Waterfall
159. Hafragilsfoss Waterfall
160. Dettifoss spray from Hafragilsfoss (2km)
161. Car on Road 864
162. Road 864 view
163. Road 864 view
164. Road 864 & Road 1 junction Jokulsa river
165. Thermal pool diatomite plant
166. Road to Hverfjall Crater
167. Hverfjall Crater walk
168. Hverfjall Crater walk
169. Towards Reykjahlid from top of crater
170. Hverfjall Crater walk
171. Pseudo crater from top of Hverfjall
172. Pseudo crater from top of Hverfjall
173. Sunset, Lake Myvatn from top of Hverfjall
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