All by myyyyyyself!! Don´t wanna be...all by myself!!!... this became the themesong of a GREAT trip in the south of Iceland. Singing along the highway with not a singel wheel in sight.
Day 1: CLOUDY: Rolling out of bed, Drífa and Marlous catching an early bus to volcano crater Kerið and taking a look at classic Gullfoss&Geysir. Beautiful as always. After desperate times trying to hitchhike back in direction of the ringroad..we got a lift including half an hour of near-death-experience. The lift we picked up was climbing into a HUGE HUMMER with a CRAZY driver..(poor guy had parkinson and was disabled..but that is no excuse for driving at 160km/h swinging from one edge of the road to the next licking the passing cars) When we finally got out of the car we had to take a moment to overlook our life and gather a new perspective on things - never been so happy to be alive. Walked in garbagebags through rainy-stormy-Selfoss and hitchhiked with a farmerwoman to Hella. Mosfell-Hotelmanager Gulli and housekeeping Katla were great enough to take us in. (Takk aftur!!:* ) Even though tenting has its charm we praised the lord for showers and cosy hotelbeds looking at the stormy weather outside.
Day 2: STORM&RAIN.
Armed with trashbags around ourselves we crawled to the side of the road with a hopeless feeling of getting a lift. 5 minutes later an army of 5 jeeps came to the rescue!!! My parents and their friends!!! This IS a small world.
Driving east in shitty weather with my parents was great!! In this ride we saw Skógarfoss, mountains and Jökulsárlón! So beautiful! We saw actual SEALS swimming around!!!
In the evening we barbiqued with the whole jeepteam at a farmers hostel by the roots of Vatnajökull.
Day 3: SUNNY SKY.
Since the weather turned the men decided to drive up on the glacier..we were more than happy to follow. Driving up the vertical road while the cars exchanged stupid comments in walkie-talkies was no picnic..but sitting in a car on the edge of a cliff was completely worth the spectacular view from the glacier!!! Rolling around in snow in the middle of July. We jumped out of the jeeparmy at village Höfn. On our own we got a short ride with fishing Father&Son and later on a man with long hair who had been living in Lund.
Stopping again in Jökulsárlón but now without the fog. Sitting on a rock spying on seals. After a long stay we catched a bus going to National park, Skaftafell, where we put up our little tent.
Day 4: SUNNY SKY/t-shirt:
Hiking in Skaftafell with beautiful view of the glacier and waterfalls. Packing up the stuff and hiking towards the ringroad...there we were once again. Spent a GOOD time on that road since the cars were of short supply at that hour. Out of the blue an old vehicle came rolling our way. An even older man, 85 years old with no teeth, jumped out. Such a cutie!!! We sat with him the better part of the day.. and he shared stories about his days. They were many. Such a cutie!!!!:)
Arrived in Selfoss quite late and very tired. Hitchhiked with a local on the way to the big city. Home again!
Photos of our trip