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Soongies' Great Adventure
We chatted to the other guests at the guesthouse, Dave, Nicole and Matteo, over breakfast and packed up and left to drive into the centre of Egilsstadir to try and clean the windscreen a bit and to get a bit more food! We even had a "breakfast dessert" of Icelandic Skyr yoghurt! We then drove through snowy mountains, with snow being blown furiously around, until we reached Hverir - a large geothermal field of bubbling mud pools, hissing fumaroles, sticky red soil and stinky sulphur. We walked over to them and our shoes got sooooo muddy! Our shoes were so heavy from the mud that they were quite tricky to lift! Luckily there was plenty of snow around to get the worst of the mud off! A few minutes drive down the road to our lunch stop in Myvatn. It was also where we needed to go to inflate our tyres as the warning light came on telling us our tyre pressure was too low! We ate leftover rice porridge in the car at the petrol station overlooking a lake. It was too cold to eat outside! After lunch we had a very scenic drive where we saw Hverfjall Crater in the distance and then a snowy lake. We didn't climb up the crater - will have to save that for next time! And then we arrived at Godafoss waterfall, which was pretty spectacular (and cold!!). After about another hour of driving we reached Akureyri (Iceland's second largest urban area), our destination for the night. We ate more rice porridge for dinner and then chatted for a while to a Welsh couple who were also staying at the hostel for 2 weeks of ski touring in the surrounding areas. They had awesome jobs - mountain guide and outdoor recreation teacher - Calvin's idea of fun work.
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