On the road

Wednesday was driving day. It was time to go all the way from Myvatn to Höfn (top left-hand corner, out towards the top right-hand corner and down to the right-hand corner on the map, the red road).



We played it safe and followed the main road that circles around Iceland. It might be seen as a bit boring to follow the main road, but not in Iceland.

Here the main road is only one lane (körfil) in each direction and when crossing a bridge it goes down to one shared single lane. Mostly it is surfaced with asphalt, but there are also several stretches with gravel (grus). The longest being about 50 km!

You also meet the odd sheep on the road. Mainly they are good and stay next to rather than on the road. The baby lambs are so cute you just want to stop and give them a cuddle.



It did take us through some amazing landscape though. This little hut we found in Breiddalsheidi. It had two beds, some water and a bottle of vodka.


The 420 km took us through very varied landscape. We drove through:
- lunar landscape of black gravel
- yellow grass plains
- heather (ljung) fields
- moss covered pebble plains
- unearthly broken lava ridges
- bizarre lava sculptures
- deep green valleys
- mountain passes
- gravel mountains
- black beaches
- etc etc


Obviously we had to make pit-stops. Here we are enjoying waffles in Djupivogur.


As you can see we had by now we reached the sea.



Once we reached Höfn it was time to find a place for the night. Thursday will see us exploring Vatnajökull, the larges glacier in the world!