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...

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...