Iceland Day 7, Sunday, March 16

It's a lazy Sunday. 

We were supposed to ice caving at noon. Apparently aside from having heavy rain, which will flood the caves, warm sunshine is not recommended as well.

The warm sun will melt the glacier excessively and will also flood the caves. Ice caving, like watching the northern lights, requires very particular weather conditions. And today was not that weather.

The weather was generally fine for outdoors. The sun was nice and bright, a great relief from the chilling winds. We decided to chill instead. Have been doing quite a bit of driving the past days. 

So it's time to just enjoy the cabin.

Iceland Day 4 - Thursday, March 13

We are waiting for our guide for ice caving to contact us but he seems quite slow in responding to emails. Torsteinn, the owner of our guesthouse shared that the caves are likely to be flooded due to the rain the day before. Afternoon may be possible. 

So while waiting for news, we decided to have a short road trip first. But before that we had to have some fun with Hackla, the resident sheep dog. All the sheep are indoors, so she's free to play around with us.

We are driving to the east towards Hofn, a fishing town. It's somewhat a capital for the area. Hope to find some activities there. 

On the way there, we made a detour and drove towards a glacier, Fláajökull. Our first photo with a glacier.

Hofn, was a nice place. We could see a few glaciers across the lagoon from the port area. 

But it seems that most of the places of interest here are catered for the summer crowd. We kindda came here for lobsters cos it's in abundance here. It took a while for us to find one that's open  in this season. 

It's not cheap, in fact, it's really expensive. We are on a holiday budget, not budget holiday. So yeah..

After lunch was a long drive to the west. We received no news for ice caving and so it's off to another sight here in Iceland. Jökulsárlón, is a huge glacier lagoon.

It's a good place to see the icebergs, which broke off from the glacier, Breiõamerkurjöll.

We tried to look out for the lights again but the sky just didn't look optimistic.

Iceland Day 3

Weather for northern lights were once again poor. Temperatures were freezing again. 

That's it for Reykjavik, it's now time to head on to Skalafell to experience the glaciers. 

We had planned to set off earlier today, but we could only start our journey at about noon. Not a good idea when you have to cover 500++km. 

Well, we had to make the most out of our journey here, so we plan for a few stops to look at some sights too.

First stop, Seljalandfoss, a nice waterfall where we could walk behind it. It's was a fantastic idea and very cool to see it from a different perspective, but it's super cold!

Next was another waterfall, Skogarfoss, this is a pretty one which you can really get up close. It's was just too cold and we just looked at it from afar. The splattering water from the falls makes it even colder! 

This makes almost a third of the journey and it was already getting late. But we had one more stop to make, Vik, to get more warm accessories. :)

This brand is quite affordable. 

As we continued our drive to Skalafell, the sky got dark and fog set in. It was not an easy drive for newbies to the country like us. Furthermore highway 1 here, is really nothing more than a 10m wide Tarmac for both directions, most of it at least. 

There are also many small bridges to cross which are only single laned, so u will have to give way if there's another vehicle approaching in the opposite direction. 

There are few street lamps here. Those only exists where there are towns or cluster of houses, majority of the road is just lined with reflectors. 

Large container trucks are quite common, but every time I had to pass one, it's unnerving. They bring along huge turbulence. Our car is 4WD, and quite sturdy, but still felt the jerks when they pass. This is our ride.

By the time we reached our accommodation, it's already late at night.