Travelling — Iceland

US Arctic pole, causing GreenlandOn the world map, there are two blocks of white areas, one is the South Pole, another is a piece of Greenland, Antarctica too far, then go to the far north of Greenland . 69 degrees north latitude, the Arctic Circle town of Ilulissat in Greenland (Ilulissat), United States Arctic pole.   Day 07. Akureyri -> Ilulissat Day 08. Ilulissat Day 09. Ilulissat -> Reykjavík Flying over the Arctic, from the moment the plane flew over the east coast of Greenland, fantasy world of ice, here we come. Vast white land, determination of black mountains, black...

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...

The day's destination is Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon. Before that, there are still many places worth a visit.  Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon is one of that place.  Canyon Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, 100 meters deep, about 2 km long, a huge crack in the mountains. There seems to be roads that people able to go to the bottom of the canyon. Internet have pictures that took the bottom of the canyon. We're in a hurry, so we didn't try to find that road, we walk around the the top of the canyon cliffs, but it was enough to shock. Carefully looking at photographs, you may...

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...