Date: 29th July 2022
Travelled: 70 kms from Hvolsvöllur to Vik
Visited: Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Sólheimajökull, Dyrhólaey and Reynisfjara Þ ð
Stayed: Camping Vik, Isk3800, N63.4190, W18.9960
Budget: 65 days @ €106 per day
Spend a few minutes chatting to our Swiss neighbour this morning. He has lived in Aus for three extended periods (in Engadine for 3 years) but has now settled in Switzerland. He hired this monster in Reykjavik for a month and they are in their final week. He tells me including fuel, the hire was close to A$1,000 per day.
The second photo, obviously Nissan huts are an Icelandic favourite.
Scanning our guide book it looks like a busy day. We do the services and roll out onto route #1 eastbound. Our first stop is less than 15kms later, Seljalandsfoss. The Gljúfurárbul River falls 60m off the escarpment creating this waterfall. Your can don your wet weather gear and do a behind the falls walk, but its a bit early to get wet just yet.
Glad to get back into the Hymer and we safely negotiate our exit from the carpark at Seljalandsfoss. Kept thinking maybe we should have made an earlier start.
Back on route #1 once again we continue on, turning at the tourist sign for Skógafoss. The falls fed directly from the Eyjafjallajökull ice cap they dramatically tumble 62m into a hidden gorge..
The top viewing point beckons, just 440 steps up a step climb to the top.
Leaving the carpark full of buses at the falls we return to route #1 and our next stop.
Eventually we turn for the Sólheimajökull glacier. Our guide book states it’s the easiest finger glacier to access in Iceland which explains why every tourist in Iceland is here this morning. There is a Isk300 parking fee which we pretend we didn’t see.
It’s an easy 800m walk to the viewing point. You can join an official guided tour to the face of the glacier, but as we have done a couple of glaciers before in Norway we just take it in from the viewing point.
Continuing on we take the turn to Dyrhólaey, taking the Hymer back to 2nd gear and climbing to the lighthouse carpark. We arrive at the chaotic carpark taking in the amazing view of the black sand beach, it immediately reminds us of the Icelandic murder series ’Black Sands’, later we do a Google check and confirm Dyrhólaey was the murder scene.
Back down the hill, we go along the beach to walk the black sands and the basalt columns of Reynisfjara. The columns remind us of our visit to the Giants Causeway in Ireland in 2019. Anyway it’s an interesting walk.
It’s been a short day of driving but a great day of sightseeing. We roll into Vik, the sun’s out and we’ve had a great day.
Vik, Suðurland, Iceland
Michael + Pam
3 thoughts on “Vik, Iceland 🇮🇸 2022”
Always looking forward to your report magnificent photos thank you 😊
Hi guys, so much easier on my knees when you do the climbing so we can enjoying the spectacular scenery – just amazing……thank you for bringing us along. Think Pam needs to do a few more video introductions tho 🙂 🙂
I’ll try an encourage her.