Iceland
People often use the phrase “a photo doesn’t do it justice” which I think is the best way to describe Iceland. Even though I love the following pictures (a little shameless self-confidence never hurt anyone) the fact of the matter is they do not even come close to illustrating the real thing. I have never been to such a crazy and beautiful place. We drove around for about 6 days and it seemed like every turn we took there was something more breathtaking and amazing than the last breathtaking and amazing thing we just saw. Words cannot describe and pictures hardly do. But here goes nothing….
Iceland, in the summer, is mostly rainy but sometimes sunny, which I think contributes to the unrelenting green-ness of the place.
It wasn’t until the second day that we were there that the rain stopped and the clouds broke a bit to let some sun shine through, and this happened:
Travel buddy and partner in crime, the one and only my husband. I don’t condone climbing all over rented Jimnys but the man does what he wants.
We stayed at many places on our road trip but this was by far my favorite. Matti’s cabin about 45 mins. outside of Rejkyavik, a fantastic AirBnB find.
Icelandic fauna consists of the following animals: horses, sheep, puffins, and other small birds. The end. Oh and I heard there’s some sort of fox and a lynx type cat but we never saw anything like that. Basically we saw horses and sheep. And birds.
Lots of rain, which made the moments of blue sky and/or sunshine even more beautiful.
I don’t know much about farming but TJ says these white things are filled with hay. They’re everywhere.
We hiked up the side of a waterfall with the rest of the tourists, then hopped a fence to continue the hike and found this:
Black sand beaches. Nice contrast with the green hills.
I didn’t get to see the Northern Lights because they don’t like to come out in the summer. But I thought this was pretty darn close. I’ll just call it the daytime northern clouds.
Glacier lake! I have never been in close proximity of glaciers before so I was very taken by the whole scene. Behind the lake is the main glacier in Iceland Vatnajokull which is so beautiful.
Here is the glacier a bit more up close. We drove by three different glaciers on our trip.
Last but not least, they call Iceland the land of fire and ice because it has plenty glaciers and just as many volcanoes. There are lots of lava fields, which I have seen before in Mexico, but these lava fields are covered in this thick green moss that just makes it look other worldly.
Last but not least… always fun to take a photo on a timer and enjoy the results. Traveling us.
