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Wonder what traveling around Iceland on the Ring Road for 10 days is like? Follow along for a 12min extended version of our adventures!
Not enough time? Watch a 3min version here: vimeo.com/251913528 Visit ChrisGiordano.com/Iceland to see an interactive map with photos/video from the field! In September 2017 my mother and I completed a self drive tour circling the land of Fire and Ice with a dense 43-page itinerary that kept us on the move - often with 10-12 hour days - to see lots of iconic landmarks in a short period of time! Following a 7hr red eye flight to Keflavík we picked up our Kia Sportage (with built in GPS and additional Wi-FI router - these came in handy when navigating difficult locations!) and from there our adventure began! Landscapes ranged from epic sea cliffs with waterfalls or glacier tongues erupting from them seemingly every two minutes, to expansive rolling hill pastures, and moss covered rocky lava fields. We quickly realized N1 stations would be our best friends as they had petrol for the car, snacks, coffee, and friendly employees. Challenges arose with figuring out the order of destinations to navigate to in keeping up with the itinerary, and so as not to backtrack. Each night we would go over when we should wake up, visit Destination 1, when to leave Destination 1 to catch a tour at Destination 2, etc etc. Meanwhile I'd be offloading footage, charging different camera batteries, and posting daily summaries to Facebook. Overcoming these adventure travel challenges, however, let us experience a vast spread of Iceland, learn a lot of history, and meet wonderful people. Visiting in September had reduced crowds and surprisingly crisp weather; usually around 50°F in the day, with minimal rain and wind.
If you’ve been thinking of visiting Iceland I hope this helps solidify your decision - this place is life changing! We saw DOZENS of friends and young couples driving around in small “Happy Camper” vans spending the night wherever they could park. There were people like us following an itinerary and staying in hotels, and even many people backpack traveling and likely staying in hostels or AirBnB!
Huge thanks to all the tour companies and their excellent guides! ——————— SOME HIGHLIGHTS
The South Coast • Descending 120m into magma chamber of dormant Thrihnukagigur volcano on caving tour • Walking behind Seljalandsfoss waterfall • Amphibian boat ride on Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon where James Bond car chase on ice was filmed • Diamond Beach and Reynisfjara black pebble beach • Glacier hike with crampons and ice axe on Sólheimajökull glacier • Svínafellsjökull glacier tongue right outside window at Hótel Skaftafell
The Golden Circle • Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park, where Icelandic parliament was founded in 930 AD, and a beautiful landscape where the tectonic plays of Europe and America meet • The eruption of Strokkur the geyser at Geysir hot spring in Haukadalur valley • Staying in Hótel Gullfoss, seeing aurora borealis for the first time and a sunrise visit to Gullfoss, the Golden Waterfall the next morning
In the East • Driving through the East Fjords offered impressive cliffside views with scattered rock and grass encircled by seabirds above. Dramatic light and shadow! • Egilsstaðir, a nice town we spent a rainy night with great pizza at a warm little restaurant
In the North • Standing at the edge of Dettifoss, Europe’s most powerful waterfall and the filming location for the intro to the movie “Prometheus” • Mývatn, a volcanic lake surrounded by moss covered rock and nearby Hverfjall tephra cone • Whale watching tour in Húsavík • Turning 30 in Blönduós with beach sunset and aurora borealis • Visiting Nyibaer turf house in Holar
In the West • Kirkjufell, the most photographed mountain in Iceland and nearby Kirkjufellfoss waterfall • Driving the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Lóndrangar basalt pillars • Staying in at Hotel Fransiskus, once a Catholic monastery turned hotel, in Stykkishólmur, near where a scene from “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was filmed • Hvítserkur basalt stack on beach that looks like a dragon drinking • Walking deep into Langjökull glacier on the Ice Tunnel tour ——————— VIDEO Chris Giordano ChrisGiordano.com FB / IG: giordanomedia
Sony a7rii Canon 16-35L + 70-200L GoPro Hero5 DJI Mavic Pro
MUSIC EpidemicSound.com ——————— TRAVEL RESOURCES
Guide To Iceland (Overall 10-day self-drive trip itinerary) guidetoiceland.is/
Inside the Volcano (Thrihnukagigur magma chamber tour) insidethevolcano.com/
Troll Expeditions (Glacier hike on Sólheimajökull) trollaferdir.is/
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon (Amphibian boat tour) icelagoon.is/
Into the Glacier (ice cave tour inside Langjökull) intotheglacier.is/
Gentle Giants (Whale watching tour in Húsavík) gentlegiants.is/
Dettifoss waterfall, Iceland
I said yesterday that apparently all the available travel videos this week were Iceland-related, so let’s just throw caution to the wind and do this. Excellent views of Geothermal features and Dettifoss in this one, amongst other waterfalls, and I really like the jagged, rocky igneous landscape around 2:00 in.
Europe's most powerful waterfall.
Detifoss in Iceland is one of a series of falls on the Jokulsa a Fyolum river that drains the ice cap of Vatnajokul and much of the island's northeast. A hundred metres wide, and with a forty five metre plummet into Jökulsárgljúfur canyon, it is eroding the porous basalt lava flow through which it cuts at a very high rate. The river is a grey colour because of all the glacier ground rock flour it carries, and the falls have the highest discharge rate of any in Europe, ranging between 200 cubic metres per second and 600 during spring melts or when volcanic activity melts the ice cap. The falls are so powerful that the rocks can reputedly be felt vibrating underhand. What it must look like when a jokulhlaup (see http://tinyurl.com/q8k4tcd) passes through boggles the mind.
The waterfall was featured in the opening scene of the movie Prometheus.
Loz
Image credit: Hansueli Krapf.
http://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is/english/education/dettifoss/
http://www.world-of-waterfalls.com/iceland-dettifoss.html
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/06/dettifoss-most-powerful-waterfall-in.html
http://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is/english/what-to-see/hiking-routes/the-jokulsargljufur-canyon/dettifoss/
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Dettifoss – Europe’s most powerful waterfall
Dettifoss is one of countless waterfalls situated in Iceland. Falling 45 meters with a width of 100 meters it has an average water flow of 193 cubic meters per second. During floods the flow can even reach up to 600 cubic meters per second. These immense amounts of volume discharge make the Dettifoss the most powerful waterfall in Europe.
Dettifoss is located in northeastern Iceland within the glacial river Jökulsa. The river emerges from beneath the Vatnajökull. The grayish white color of the water is due to the sediment-rich meltwater from the glacier.
The roads leading to the waterfall are quite dangerous and very slippery due to the massive crashing spray created by the falling water. Nonetheless this spectacular spot is very popular and was also used as a location for the movie “Prometheus”.
Xandi
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Where the water flows from #Dettifoss - into the #jökulsárgljúfur. It’s the biggest #canyon in #Iceland and measures 25km long and half a kilometre wide. #geology #volcanic #nature #northiceland #river
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Dettifoss - the most powerful waterfall in Europe
(photo by Skyler Brown)
A view of Dettifoss i haven’t seen before - look how much basalt there is around it, even in the stream channel.
DETTIFOSS WATERFALL, ICELAND Is this a still from the beginning part of Prometheus? No, and that’s not an Engineer standing there either (well, we don’t know what the occupation of the gentleman there is, but he doesn’t have grey skin and doesn’t seem to be ingesting any black goo). This is Dettifoss, in terms of volume discharge the largest waterfall in Europe: 193 m3/s; 500 m3/s at high flow. The waterfall did indeed feature in the beginning sequence of the movie Prometheus. It is located in the Jökulsárgljúfur National Park in the northeast of Iceland, where it is found on the Jökulsá á Fjöllum river, flowing from the Vatnajökull glacier. The milky colour of the waterfall is due to the sediment-rich meltwater from this glacier. The falls are 100 metres wide and have a drop of 45 metres down to the Jökulsárgljúfur canyon. There were plans some years ago to use the hydroelectric potential of the canyon, but were scrapped when the lava strata in the area were found to be too porous for a reservoir. This beauty also inspired a musical composition: 'Dettifoss' (Op.57) by Jón Leifs. -TEL Photo credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dettifoss_TimBekaert.JPG http://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is/english/education/dettifoss/ Blog with more info on the waterfall, how to get there and photos: http://www.world-of-waterfalls.com/iceland-dettifoss.html