Roadtrip Up North

Hey Everyone!

First of all I want to apologize that you guys had to wait so long for the next post. I had to face a few technical problems that didn’t allow me to upload any pictures. It took them a while to fix and that’s why although the post was ready a week ago I wasn’t able to post it until now.

I hope you are all alright and enjoying your life as much as I am. So when I got back from my trip around the golden circle I spend quite a few hours contacting people on Couchsurfing and on this Iceland group on facebook to find people that I could go on a trip with. I eventually got a few different options and found a guy, Jonathan, I could even join the next day to go up north for a four-day trip and discover that part of the country. So I took my chance and joined in.

We hadn’t really planned anything, so while we started our trip towards the north I read lots of flyers, and travel guides and checked the internet for places to see and especially places to stay the night.

We wanted to go up to Hellissandur on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula but a big storm came up and by the time we got there it was too dark to see anthing. So we did not see much that day. It was more of a driving day. At least we stopped at this little waterfall along the way while the weather was still good. There is literally so many of them that if you’d stopped at every single one you would not get anywhere.

We ended up being the only ones at the hostel/apartment we stayed at so we just relaxed, made some dinner, had a shower and went to bed.

The next day started with the nicest weather I had so far on my trip. The sun would actually start to rise while we drove along the north coast of the peninsula. By the time we got to Kirkjufell we had beautiful light and I think that was definitely my hightlight of the trip so far.

You could see the Kirkjufell Mountain behind that beautiful waterfall, while the sun started rising, sending its rays over the coast. We then walked over to the water and were amazed by all the beautiful reflections in the water.

We then drove further east, had a small stop in Stykkisholmur (a small fisher town at the coast of the peninsula) and then stopped in Laugar, where we were trying to find a natural hot spring I had read about on the internet. But before we got there we managed to get stuck at the parking spot. It took us a while and lots of helping hands to get out of there, but we finally made it.

Don’t worry guys I’m not that crazy, the water was actually quite warm and that little hut up there was a small changing room so it was not that bad. It was actually pretty nice and relaxing. We then drove all the way to Akureyri in the north of Iceland, had some dinner at a hostel and then tried to catch the northern lights but didn’t have any luck.

The next morning we drove to the Myvatn area. That is a volcanic area placed around a big lake with lots of craters and hot pools. But due to the snow you could not really see much and the hot pools were to cold to go in so I definitely will have to come back in summer and check that place out. We did stop at the Grjótagjá though. A cave that was formed by the two tectonical plates drifting away from each other. It was too dark to take a picture inside though but that’s what it looked like from the outside.

On the way back we stopped at the Godafoss and walked there in crazy wind. But it was so worth it.

We also stopped to pet some Icelandic horses and of course take some pictures too. Depending on how well I will budget until the end of the trip I might even go on a horse riding tour before I leave!

We stayed at Grabrók the night and had the place to ourselves again. The following day we went back to Reykjavik. We tried another natural hot spring on our way back but sadly that was only luke warm, so I didn’t really wanna get in.

I’d love to hear how you guys are doing. So maybe text me or leave a comment below!

Lena xx