Thursday, July 13, 2006

Rolling to Reykjavik





I got off the bus Gullfoss. It was cold but a sunny day. Very welcomed after the highlands. Gullfoss is a waterfall, very impressive... anything ending in foss is a waterfall. The photo is not this waterfull but one in the National Park. From here i road about 10kms to camp at Geysir. And yes this is the original Geysir all others in the world use this world from Iceland. Its also very impressive and this is the smaller one as the big one has stopped working. From here I took my time riding to Pingvellir National Park... the P is actually a Th.. but it all gets a bit confusing.

To get to Pingvellir i used road 365. Dirt, great as in the morning I thought i had finished will all my dirt roads and i put some air in the tyres... not such a great move and i was too lazy to let it out. The road is just great the vista´s are just wonderful. its hard to describe but the hills are very colourful, due to the rock rusting so you get lots of reds and yellow with the black volcanic sand and plenty of green moss.

The National Park is loverly. There is a lake and small trees and its very green. This area is very significant for two reasons. 1stly it the original parliment of Iceland in around 800bc and 2ndly its one of the placed you can really see that Iceland is being torn apart.... the rift is very visible and you can walk through it...

I had a great sunny arvo and day here and Cloudia came and picked me up to spend a few days in Reykjavik.... more on that latter and more on where i am now... got to go to catch a bus

PS: hope you like the photo of the truck it was on the ferry with me when i left Denmark... I call the photo 'Iceland extreme' ... Think its a great photo... the truck only had two people

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow what more can we say
fantastic photos fleur
thinking of you love t and a xx