Wake up at 8am. After breakfast, most of the members of the group wanted to chill out and enjoy the hot spring. But O. and I did not get enough out of Landmannalaugar and agreed immediately when Pierre suggested we could climb Blahnjukur. Blahnjukur is a volcano and is about 940 m high. Despite its black color, its name translates to "blue peak" in english due to volcanic ash and lava flows. A hiking trail leads up to th...

Wake up at 7:45 am. Sky is grey and cloudy, and rain is expected. Despite the weather forecast, Alex and Pierre gave us a choice between two hikes: an easy and short one (4h walk) on the ridges above the campground with Pierre, or a longer one (7h walk) with Alex. Two groups formed and after breakfast, O. and I decided to go for the longest hike. We left the campground around 9:30 am, with S., H., M., V., T., J. and Alex. The path started in the plaine at the f...

After our visit of Jökulsarlon Glacier Lake in the morning and a lunch break in an other breathtaking scenery, we drove back to the west and made a quick stop at Kirkjubaejarklaustur. While our guides were buying some food for the next 5 days far from any villages and shopping malls, we were invited to make a short hike towards a lake above Kirkju. The trail was short but quite steep. When we arrived at the top, the scenery was very quiet : a charming lake n...

Early wake up at 6:45 ; grey weather. Time for us to leave Skaftafell National Park: having breakfast, packing our tent, and we could take the road under light rain. "Rain, eventually!" as would say Alex who kept saying Iceland was not Iceland without rain, fog or cold weather ;-) But as we were driving farther east, rain disappeared and the sky turned blue again, only leaving a huge and threatening cloud over the ocean. We finally arrived to ou...

After a good night sleep, it was time to get ready for the first day hike of the trip: hot shower for 400 ISK, shaving, and a filling breakfast were just perfect. We left from the camp (alt: 80m) with the whole group around 9:30. It was a bit cloudy but nothing to be worry about. Alex and Pierre had prepared a wonderful day hike, starting on a trail dominating Skaftafelljökull, a large glacier tongue of Vatnajökull glacier, then cr...