Travelling — hiking

Trecking around Iceland - 4, Secretive Wrecked DC-3 Plane on Sólheimasandur

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Secretive Wrecked DC-3 Plane on Sólheimasandur   Leave Highway 1, We drive on the unpaved gravel roads for quite a while. Looking ahead, surrounded by a barren, occasionally encounter a passing oncoming car, telling us we are on the right way.  We drive for few kilometers alone, then we arrive the secretive crash site. It is the 1973 US Navy Douglas Super DC-3 Wreckage. It made an emergency landing because of bad weather in Iceland. Fortunately no casualties. Four decades passed,  the wreckage left here, the barren black soil, made Iceland secretive and bizarre. [Tips] How to find the crash site? We...

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Trecking arround Iceland - 3, hiking on Skógafoss

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Handsome gentleman----Skógafoss If Seljalandsfoss ispretty bride wearing a veil, then Skógafoss is certainly the hansome gentleman. Skógafoss with distance of 30 km away from Seljalandsfoss. it is a water fall  25 meters wide, 60 meters high. Skógafoss pouring down like currtain, approached him, the sound of water is vast, so much water, hazy mist filled his eyes. Falls among the eastern side of the mountain, there is a mountain cliff, so we had the first night climbing experience. Yes, it was midnight.  anyway,  cloudy, night and day is not much difference in Iceland. Here at midnight is a good choice as visitors had...

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Trecking around Iceland - 2, The Seljalansfoss

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Day 2, Reykjavík -> Seljalandsfoss -> Skógafoss-> vík The second day after rest. we have been driving on Iceland's Highway 1, all the way east. The bride wore a white veil-----Seljalandsfoss Seljalandsfoss is a beautiful bride wearing a white veil, veil blowing, dream like magic. How lucky we are, witnessed two small wedding held in front of the waterfall in one day. One in an afternoon, and the other at midnight.  It's a wedding, not the wedding photographs. Master of ceremonies have friends even after the ceremony buffet, spend a lifetime oath at the foot of a waterfall promise heaven and...

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