Hallgrímskirkja from behind
Hallgrímskirkja
Hallgrímskirkja (from 1986, 74.5 meters high)
Inside
Organ
Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center (from 2011)
Statue of Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson outside Harpa
Geocaching at the Minor steam locomotive (used to build the harbour 1913-1928)
Alltinget (Alþingi ) building (Parliament House) from 1880-81. The parliament was founded in 930 at Þingvellir
Sun Voyager sculpture in Reykjavík
Enjoying the nice weather at the Sun Voyager sculpture
Höfði House, beautiful building
Summit Reagan - Gorbatjov in 1986 at Höfði House (more friendly than nowadays)
Einar Benediktsson statue (poet and lawyer), lived at Höfði House
Höfði lighthouse
Reykjavik water front
Þúfa (Tussock) artwork (hut for drying fish at the top of 4 500 tons of gravel), landmark of Reykjavík
Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat (satirical tribute to the country’s numerous bureaucrats who serve their country and keep it running)
Old houses in Reykjavík
Perlan exhibition and restaurant on top of a hill. Former hot water tanks.
Modern version of skyr (normally we had more plain skyr for lunch)
Þingvellir and Þingvallavatn. The annual parliament of Iceland was held here between year 930 and 1798.
Mid-Atlantic ridge (between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates) at Þingvellir
Þingvallakirkja (from 1859)
The tomb of the Icelandic poet Jonas Hallgrimsson
Entrance
View of the church
Lunch (skyr and sandwiches) between North America and Eurasia
Gullfoss
Gullfoss top part
Gullfoss lower part
Strokkur (main geysir after the Great Geysir has become dormant)
Blesi hot spring and Strokkur geysir erupting at at the back (every 5-10 minutes)
Akranes old and new lighthouses
Akranes new lighthouse from 1947 (also hosts concerts and exhibitions)
Akranes old lighthouse (1918, oldes concrete lighthouse)
Akranes (fishing town)
Exhibition from old times
Drying cod around 1935
Akranes harbour
View from Borgarnes towards Snæfellsjökull (100 km away)
Borg á Mýrum church (1880, unusual north-south direction)
Lunch at the church
Abstract sculpture from Egil's saga
Landbrotalaug hot spring area
Landbrotalaug hot spring, suitable for a few persons at a time (some ladies tried it)
Snæfellsjökull from east (1446 meter)
Hellnar ancient fishing village with a concrete pier and rocks
Valasnös clliff with a cave
The cave
Snæfellsjökull from south
Lóndrangar rock pinnacles
Road through the lava fields
Kirkjufoss and Kirkjufell
Kirkjufell (463 meter)
Stykkishólmskirkja
Súgandisey Island with basalt columns
View of Stykkishólmur harbour
Súgandisey Island lighthouse
Leifur Eiriksson (first European to land in North America, his father Erik founded settlement in Greenland)
Reproduction of longhouse in Búðardalur where Eiríkur rauði and Leifur Eiríksson (son) lived around/before year 1000
Inside the house
The small road to Borgarvirki at the top
Borgarvirki volcanic plug, served as a fortress
On top of Borgarvirki (windy)
Akureyri church
Akureyri botanical garden (still flowers in the autumn)
Akureyri botanical garden
Mountain flowers area
Good road over the mountains
Goðafoss (from western side)
Goðafoss (from eastern side)
Goðafoss (from below)
Námaskarð geothermical area, east of Lake Mývatn
Camilla at Námaskarð
Fumarole at Námaskarð
Mud pot
Mývatn Nature Baths (east of Lake Mývatn)
Grjótagjá (popular cave for bathing until 1970's, we had a bath 1975, but now too hot and dangerous)
Inside Grjótagjá
Dimmuborgir ("Black Fortress") lava area east of Lake Mývatn
Dimmuborgir
At the slope of Hverfjall tuff ring volcano (we did not made the walk around the crater this time)
Dettifoss
Dettifoss with rainbow
Camilla and Dettifoss
Upstream towards Selfoss
Eyjan ("the island") in Ásbyrgi canyon
Lunch at top of Eyjan
Path on top of Eyjan
Path below Eyjan
Autumn colours in the canyon
Botnstjörn at the end of the canyon
View from the bottom of the canyon
Road 864 east of Jökulsá á Fjöllum river not so good (holes and "washboard") compared to the excellent road 862 west of the river
Krafla Viti Crater north of Lake Mývatn (often with real blue colour due to geothermical activities)
Krafla geothermal power plant activities
Sunset at Lake Mývatn (a skating tour in winter would be nice)
Icelandic beers
Bridge over Jökulsá á Fjöllum river along road 1
Mountain road to Askja and Herðubreið
We skipped it this time. We stayed overnight at the Askja crater in 1975.
Herðubreið volcano, 1681 meter, 50 km away
Rjúkandi waterfall along road 1
South of Egilsstaðir
Lunch
Winding road along the south coast
Hafnarnes lighthouse
Fossárdalur, close to the sea
Fossárdalur waterfall
Camilla in drizzling rain at Fossárdalur
Djúpivogur compass (geocache point)
One of many narrow bridges south of Vatnajökull
Viking monument at Skalafell
Museum dedicated to Icelandic writer Þórbergur Þórðarson
Interesting museum wall
Jökulsarlon glacial lagoon south of Vatnajökull
Jökulsarlon
Fjallsárlón glacier lake south of Vatnajökull
Glacier from Vatnajökull
Hofskirkja turf church from 1884 (restored 1950)
Camilla at Svartifoss
Svartifoss with basalt columns
Gígjukvísl bridge memorial at Skeidararsandur. The bridge was destroyed 1996 by a flood from a volcanic eruption
Narrow bridge, no red/green lights. But a light to the right, indicating the start of the bridge which is good to see
Many sheep in Iceland
Curious sheep
Kirkjugólf ("church floor") in Kirkjubaejarklaustur, old basalt columns
Kirkjugólf basalt columns
Skaftáreldahraun from the catastrophic eruption of Laki in 1783. Covered with moss.
Reyniskirkja Church in Vik
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach west of Vik
Basalt columns
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach with cave and stacks
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach, Dyrhólaey at the back
Dyrhólaey
From Dyrhólaey towards the Black Sand Beach
Dyrhólaey ("the hill island with the door hole")
Dyrhólaey lighthouse
Skógafoss waterfall
Skógafoss
Skógafoss from the top (there are a lot of small waterfalls in the valley)
Seljalandsfoss
Going back of the fall
Seljalandsfoss from inside the cave
Camilla
Gljúfurárfoss, canyon with the waterfall inside
Gljúfurárfoss, inside the canyon
View from inside the canyon, you get wet feet
Urriðafoss, the waterfall with the highest flow in Iceland
Kerið crater
A geocache hidden inside a rock south of Reykjavík
Blue Lagoon geothermical spa. We did not enter this time, we were here in 2004.
Silica
Gunnuhver active geothermal area of mud pools and steam vents
Camilla holding the bridge between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates (distance increases 2 cm per year).
Garðskagaviti new lighthouse (highest in Iceland) from 1944.
Garðskagaviti old lighthouse from 1897
Hólmsbergviti lighthouse north of Keflavík
Þotuhreiður (Jet Nest) sculpture at the airport. Logged our last geoache here.
