Wake up at 7:15 am after a good night sleep in a real bed, and it is foggy ! After a warm breakfast, we leave the cottage where we spent the night, heading to Husavik harbor for a whale watching tour. The weather is not as sunny as yesterday, but one can not be lucky each time ;-) It is a bit late in the season for whale watching, but we try our luck anyway. After the safety explanations, the boat proceeds to the bay. It is a traditional wooden boat, and despite...

Wake up at 7:45 am under grey skies and scattered showers. Tents are packed despite the rain and we drive to the pseudocraters of Skutustadagigar. The rain stopped on the way and mosquitos make their apparition ! Pseudocraters are formed by gas explosions when molten lava flows into the water. The example here is the best-known around the lake, and is surrounded by hiking trails which show off the crater from different angles. Walking around will only take around...

Wake up at 7:45 under grey skies. But no rain contrary to forecast. After breakfast, we drive to the region of Krafla volcano. We pass by a huge geothermic plant before arriving to the volcano. We decide to go and walk to the viti, the lake inside the crater, very similar to the one saw in Askja even if this one is smaller. We then walk to the parking lot where the day hike trail starts, while A. and P. bring one of the cars to the end ...

Wake up at 7 am. Sunny! We had breakfast on the terrace under a perfect blue sky. The group was ready to leave around 8:20. It was a 9 km long trail to reach the top of the caldera, 700 meters above us. Askja is indeed a large basaltic central volcano that forms the Dyngjufjöll massif. It is truncated by three overlapping calderas, the largest of which is 8 km wide and may have been produced primarily from subglacial ring-fracture eruptions rather than by ...

One of the numerous reasons that made this trip so attractive was the perspective of taking road F910 north, one the wildest track in Iceland, connecting Nyidalur to Askja through lava fields and sand deserts! But this amazing thought could vanish in a second if we could not cross the first ford of the day... As Sola suggested, we woke up early that day and were ready to leave around 7:30 am. Three other vehicles followed the range...