Our B&B - that's also where we got to see Northern Lights. The owner woke everyone up and we rushed outside. The lights were okay.ISO 200, 50mm, f/2.5, 1/400s.
I'm proud to say my dad and I were the only ones that made it that far - although later we found out that you could walk behind the waterfall too.ISO 200, 18mm, f/8.0, 1/640s.
Mývatn pseudocrater. These distinctive landforms are created when flowing hot lava crosses over a wet surface, such as a swamp, a lake, or a pond causing an explosion of steam through the lava. [2]
These are 2300 years old.ISO 200, 55mm, f/8.0, 1/400s.
We rented a 4x4 car as there are 4x4-only roads in Iceland. To our disappointment, they were all closed due to the "imminent" volcano eruption.
Worse still, we missed the actual eruption, as it happened a few days after we left Iceland. I've been bitter ever since.ISO 200, 20mm, f/8.0, 1/1000s.
Akureyri is a nice, chilled-out place. Despite its small population of fewer than 20,000 people, it's been nicknamed the Capital of North Iceland. [2]ISO 200, 28mm, f/8.0, 1/500s.
New church in the village of Reykholt, known for having been the home of Snorri Sturluson, famous medieval Icelandic poet and politician, the author of the Prose Edda. [3]ISO 200, 18mm, f/8.0, 1/800s.
Fljótstunga offer a short trip inside this lava cave, which is interesting in that they found fairly ancient human remains inside. And that it's a lava cave.
We had a nice Australian guide whose name I can't remember, and whose slightly innuendo jokes deserved more appreciation than they got.ISO 200, 11mm, f/2.8, 1/80s.
This place is not far from Snæfellsjökull, where the protagonists of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth entered the earth.ISO 200, 20mm, f/8.0, 1/320s.
The road to Snæfellsjökull - but we didn't have the time to go much further, as we had to return to Reykjavik for our flight.ISO 200, 20mm, f/5.0, 1/40s.
