ICELAND

Here is the photo, itinerary and travel diary of the extraordinary Iceland.

Travel information and recommendations for Iceland

Why go? If nature fascinates you, and in particular the surprising one, which leaves you speechless, with landscapes of a unique beauty, which stuns and remains impressed forever ... Well, a travel itinerary in Icelanda does just for you. Indeed, you should have already booked the flight.
when to go? Iceland touches the Arctic Circle, so summer is obviously the best time for a vacation to enjoy landscapes and 20 hours of light a day. The other seasons offer boreal aurora, white whiteness and cold dog.

How to move? Public transport can be used, participating in the organized tours of locations in locality, but the way far better to turn the island is to rent a car and walk the periplo, stopping in the 10000 panoramic points and doing one Beautiful walk from time to time (to prevent the bottom from taking the shape of a car seat).
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How much does it cost? The flight to Iceland from Europe can cost on 400 euros, even if it depends very day. The prices are dear, from the rent car to the food. For those who want to save, the ideal is to stop to sleep in hostels, where you can also cook something.
Keep in mind that in what it costs I take into account all the journey ... from the vehicle for the airport of Departure to the drink passing through meals and souvenirs.
For an idea on hotel prices in Iceland Click here to compare hotels and find the most convenient accommodation.

Where to go? The travel itinerary is very simple: all the vank of the island, at least for the accessible part. Departure from Reykjavik and then waterfalls, canyons, glaciers, volcanoes, geysir, lava castings, etc.
Other destinations? To the traditional travel route in Iceland you can add the peninsula to the north-west, rich in spectacular fjords. With a boat trip to Husavik you could be able to admire whales.

Travel Diary in Iceland

Iceland is a unique island in the world that offers a continuous alternation of wonderful places so absurd that not even the photos are able to contain their strabordant nature. Let alone the descriptions. I will still try to give some wrong information on our itinerary, so, to confuse you the ideas. No, joke, I'll do my best and I hope you will appreciate the good will (after all it's all free).
We will obviously land at Reykjavik , the small Icelandic capital. The afternoon we spent was widely enough to visit it and not struck particularly, perhaps for the gray sky
The following morning we retired the car to the nolo that we had rented through Hi Iceland, the company that manages Icelandic international hostels, to which We had also entrusted us for booking most of the accommodation along our travel itinerary in Iceland. Combining car hire and hostels reservations not only saved something, but we assured us places to sleep in a country that offers few rooms for tourists.

The first goal of our vacation was the peninsula of Snaefellsness, on which they are located The Snaefell glacier and the homonymous volcano : Thus we discovered the first traits of the Icelandic nature: absence of trees and plenty of lava rocks, with whole plains covered with Magma cooled for years or for centuries.

The most fascinating part of this peninsula is perhaps in the black cliffs that throw themselves into the sea, with some picturesque beach among them: the fresh climate and the frosty sea but did not invite you to take a bath!

We slept in the hostel of Grundarfjordur. We woke up early and left to visit the fishing village of Stykkisholmur , then driving alongside beautiful bays and grassy hills, we launched in a sort of natural monument, the Hvitsekur, one Black rock formation that leses in the middle of the sea , in the shape of a "cathedral facade" (better guess the photo because it is difficult to describe that "thing").

In the evening we reached akureyri , where we stayed in the hostel. Nothing particular to report for the second city of Iceland. Well, there was a seat of a 4-seater chairlift used as a bench in the center. We are satisfied with little.
What they do not offer the Icelandic cities (towns) is offered with interest from nature. The next day, in fact, we could admire the godafoss waterfall , a comfortable destination in the itinerary that runs along the entire Iceiplo of Iceland.

We then reached visiting the landscape wonders near Lake MyVatn: there were a gray volcano, yellow land, green grass, black rocks, blue lakes and lots of gnats. In the white sky he stood out a rainbow every now and then.

We went up on the volcano, then we walked between the lakes, reaching a wooded stretch (a real rarity in Iceland; the plants still did not exceed two-three meters high).

A strange after another along our travel itinerary. A delirium of even more remarkable colors appeared in front of our eyes by visiting the area of Krafla , with its puddles of robilent mud, its fumaroles and the colored ground of red and yellow from the Sulfur .

Crossing smoking lava fields, we felt precipitated in the Jurassic or somewhere it was even more ancient geological.

As if all this is not enough, we then driven to the cascade of Dettifoss , one of the most spectacular in the world, powerful to scare within an impressive canyon.

We then visited the Asbyrgi, a wide canyon in the shape of a horseshoe at which a forest grew, I think the largest in the country. In the surroundings there were unlikely basaltic forms.
For two days we stayed in the B & amp; B Elda, the place where we spent more during the holiday (about 80 euros per night for a double).
WE LEND TO Vulcano Askja , where you can arrive with a jeep or by paying a non-indifferent figure (75 euros each, at the time), with an organized tour.
To reach the volcano Passammo For boundless lunar views and crossed rivers and small canyons. . Obviously there was no building, in the interior of Iceland.

Inside the wide circular crater of the Askja there were a large blue lake and a small volcano, red and yellow and filled by a light heavenly pond clear from the sulfur. To avoid unnecessary descriptions I would tell you to look at the photos, but also these do not make the idea of the amplitude of the panorama and perspectives.

Once the breath resumed we fell into the volcano screws on a steep path. between a fumarola and the other we arrived at the Celeste Laghetto . In the crater the water temperature was just over 20 degrees, so we took the naked bath, the Icelandic!

In the distance you could see Vatnajokull, the most voluminous European glacier.

We then headed by car to Egilsstadir, where we stayed a night in the hostel.
The Egilsstadir area is made of fjords, green mountains and fishing villages . Finding a bad place in your travel itinerary in Iceland is a noteworthy business.
After sleeping in Hofn, we could closely admire the Icelandic perennial glaciers, whose "languages" arrive practically on the sea. At the foot of one of these languages lies the jokulsarlon lagoon, full of iceberg including some seals swims. We parked and visited. There were several tourists and sometimes annoying hovercraft for gipers broke quiet. It was still enough to walk to a kilometer, moving away from the road, to immerse yourself in an absolute peace

Later we visited the park of the Skaftafell , where we opted for a nice walk that started from the sea level and reached 1100 meters of altitude, above the languages of the glaciers.

The panorama went from the icing to the black sand beaches passing through colorful mountains. I slept in Horgsland.

Obviously I'm forgetting something in my stories: too many different images, all amazing, in a travel itinerary of days that seemed months for variety of landscapes. The photos to me to view a verdant canyon from the absurd shapes, and an immense rock arch over the sea under which there was room for an aircraft carrier, and the typical Icelandic birds that look like Miniature penguins ...

We visited vik , with the nearby cliffs, one of which looks like a natural basalt staircase, and we spent the night in Skogar.

One of the most amazing visits was that at the park of the Landmannalaungar , we reached him through a long dirt road, in theory dedicated to off-road vehicles, but in practice passable even with a normal car. Here we made an incredible walk, an itinerary of 17 kilometers in nature in the midst of green, yellow, red and blue mountains, of all the shades . Yes, okay, you don't believe me, but look at the photos and you will convince you. was a rainbow on earth .

At times, there were fumarole and robilent muddy puddles. Coming out of the path he happened to hear the ground pulsing under his feet. I understood that it was better not to venture too much: there was a risk of falling into a geyser or some diavoloria like that. Those 17 kilometers constitute one of the most beautiful walks of my life, despite the moments of rain and the few sunbursts.

At the end of that full day we stayed in Laugarvatn, in a hostel. The last day of vacation we visited the Thingvellir National Park , a geologically absurd plain like the rest of Iceland, between lakes, lava rocks and small canyons. The remarking thing, from a historical point of view, was that in this plain, in 930 AD, the first Parliament of the world met (or one of the first) gathered. We then dedicated ourselves to the Circolo d'Oro, which combines the three most famous attractions of Iceland, if only because they are close to the international airport and therefore convenient to reach for those who have little time.
these attractions, included in each Travel itinerary in Iceland, I am The Gullfoss waterfall, the blue geaysirs and lagoon. All splendid places that, after getting used to the wild views of Iceland, are however too tourist. The waterfall is still spectacular, although not as much as Dettifoss.

Geysir, one (Strokkur) is activated every few minutes and the spray reaches 30 meters high. The other, the famous Geysir who gives the name to everyone else, would arrive higher (reached 145 meters!), But is unevenly activated, sometimes you need to wait for years.

Finally, the blue lagoon is a spa built in the middle of a lava field . Hot sulphurous water is natural, diverted so as to create puddles in the dry magma. We solved us at the spa (whose entrance is not cheap, unfortunately) until late afternoon, feeling real tourists on vacation relaxation. After dinner we got the airport, where we slept waiting for our flight scheduled for dawn. Not that to go back to the heat Ligurian sea sucks, but we reluctantly let Iceland, sure we would never have found such landscapes from any other party.

I conclude with a couple of advice and practical information. Clear weather is rare in August, from what we could notice, but some sunburst welcomed us almost every day. The gray clouds no longer disturbed us from time to time and, even though a little rain came down, it was easily bearable, not in gender of downpours. In all, between the dungeon of the island and the deviations, we walked about 2000 kilometers by car, but for landscape variety seemed 150000. The main road was in good condition and at all busy.
Hostels did not delous, indeed They presented most clean and ordered. The kitchens were well equipped with utensils. Families with molest children were the only flaw.
Obviously, if you want to eat well you have to make a smart spending in Reykjavik or take your stuff from home, given that rural Iceland is little supplied. Then join tuna boxes, crackers, pasta, sauces and everything you can get durable. I suggest not to rely entirely to restaurants, first because it is difficult to find them, according to because it is difficult to find them open, and third because it is difficult to find them cheap.
said this, to anyone who loves nature I highly recommend Iceland , and to those who think that it is not worth it to advise even more strongly than leaving immediately and change opinions!
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