We start our day tour with a route along the 32 in the direction of the north-east, and with best weather.
We had heard from friends that it had rained a lot the last weeks, so the great conditions made us confident.
We had heard from friends that it had rained a lot the last weeks, so the great conditions made us confident.
Our first stop was at Hjálparfoss, with which we have a history.
It was originally our wedding waterfall, also already booked and then Iceland changed the regulations, whereby the place of the wedding ceremony could not be further than 50km from the registry office.
To the Hjálparfoss it was ~52km, there the Icelanders also did not let negotiate, so we chose another waterfall we visited during the day.
Via the 327 we drove to the Gjain and the Viking house Stöng.
We were not able to visit either of them on our other trips because the road was closed both times.
The Gjain is a picturesque valley full of waterfalls, small streams and that in the lush green - you truly enter another world, a truly magical place that was of course also home to sheep.
Glanni
Háifoss
The next stop was planned at Háifoss, or the two Háifoss and Granni, which are close together and fall into the same gorge. Is also not our first visit and for the next time we planned to hike down into the gorge.
They are both stunning and typically no barriers around the edges to protect tourists.
And we were lucky, there were rainbows to see again at the falls.
From the 32 we went then over on the F26 in higher altitudes, or in the range of the Hekla one of the three most active volcanoes of Iceland.
As we approached Hekla two days later, we received a text message on our smartphones that we were approaching a volcano that could erupt without notice.
But today we drove on to Sigöldugljúfur, a canyon with Lekafossa, a waterfall made up of several individual waterfalls - truly spectacular.
Unfortunately it was so windy that I let my drone fly only briefly and very carefully, for a complete overflight the wind was too strong and came from the wrong direction.
Nevertheless, we were impressed by this landscape.
The first view of the Hekla
Windy and barren landscape
The sign was in Icelandic, so we could not find out the reason for the column
On our way back to the cottage we stopped at Þjóðveldisbær, a replica of the Stöng with a small waterfall in the background.
The conclusion of the first day was a view from Gaukshöfði over the impressive river landscape, here we will stop the days even more often for a few pictures.
