South Iceland – Finalli

We are determine to get to Jokulsarlon today. Because lack of planning, we need to get back and forth from Reykjavik to South Iceland. So, we end up driving along the same route that we have been yesterday but in full speed and non-stop, moving forward to our final destination. Why Jokulsarlon? Is the most amazing glacier lake that we always wanted to see – the mother nature that we have not experience before. And no where else than Iceland &  a few other places. Driving was long, we arrive there at 8.30pm and we started at 12noon. But it should be only 350km from Reykjavik. Guess we have too much stop in between attractions.

First, we get to the next waterfall – Skógafoss (width: 25m and height: 60m. People can go as close as they dare to. Due to the amount of spray the waterfall consistently produces, a single or double rainbow is normally visible on sunny days. According to legend, the first Viking settler in the area, Þrasi Þórólfsson, buried a treasure in a cave behind the waterfall. A local boy found the chest years later, but was only able to grasp the ring on the side of the chest before it disappeared again.

And we arrived at Skatefell National Park at 7pm – too late for some easy hiking to get a close look of the glacier & it was windy. Sad. but we will be back hopefully. And with better planning next time  It was a windy day. As we travel closer to the volcano, there is lots of volcano ash around. We drove to a point where the ash was squiring up dancing in the air and traveling on the surface of the road. Like going from left corner to right corner of the road. Unbelievable. We were stunned.

And this marked the end of my driving journey. Roughly around 1000km in 3 days! Unbelievable. More km than in total since I get to Finland. And finally we arrived safely back to guesthouse at 2.30am. Almost fall asleep driving but it was a bit rough as it started to rain 1hr before we reach. But everytime I go out of the car I felt so refresh – is super windy.