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...

Wake up at 7:30. Sunny. After having breakfast and packing our tents, we drove to the now famous closed road which was still closed and blocked by a big SUV and guards. We thus continued our way to Dyrholaey, a small peninsula, which was formerly an island of volcanic origin. In front of the peninsula, there is a gigantic black arch of lava standing in the sea, which gave the peninsula its name (meaning: the hill-island with the door-hole). ...