Sinkholes from icebergs.
Þórsmörk, Iceland is my favourite place on the Earth. More photos in the gallery - will help feel a little of the awe of nature we felt on Saturday during our trip. The children and I had one of our best days in the wilderness of Iceland with a Fire and Ice tour to Þórsmörk, about two hrs east of Reykjavik. The only way into the glaciers and volcanos is by jeep or the ICE Explorer we took, and there's only two of them on the planet! Icebergs sat in these sinkholes after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010 sent
amazon river-like glacial floods out to the ocean, draining this lake under the glacier. The volcano erupted under the glacier. We hiked for about an hr to the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.
We drank the 300-yr old glacial water from the streams, no pollution! The glaciers in iceland can reach up to almost 500 m, and at times were over 1000 m deep. We stopped for lunch at a hut built by a group from a glacial club that work in Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica. A hiking trek, Landmannalaugar, can be done thru the centre of Iceland starting here, heading north across volcano and glacier areas, with huts to say in. Must go in the summer! The ICE Explorer took us to another place where we hiked into a deep volcanic valley to a cave. As we left the valley at sunset, volcanic ash was swept up by a dust storm making a most beautiful sunset. Cloud formations were like no other. Could say more. The pictures do the best :)
amazon river-like glacial floods out to the ocean, draining this lake under the glacier. The volcano erupted under the glacier. We hiked for about an hr to the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.
We drank the 300-yr old glacial water from the streams, no pollution! The glaciers in iceland can reach up to almost 500 m, and at times were over 1000 m deep. We stopped for lunch at a hut built by a group from a glacial club that work in Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica. A hiking trek, Landmannalaugar, can be done thru the centre of Iceland starting here, heading north across volcano and glacier areas, with huts to say in. Must go in the summer! The ICE Explorer took us to another place where we hiked into a deep volcanic valley to a cave. As we left the valley at sunset, volcanic ash was swept up by a dust storm making a most beautiful sunset. Cloud formations were like no other. Could say more. The pictures do the best :)