Laugavegur trek
Hej!
A long time has passed and we have been highly active in Iceland. The last 10 days we have been hiking the beautiful Laugavegur in both directions. We read it's one of the most beautiful hikes in the world and I couldn't say anything else. We started each packed with equipment and food for almost 2 weeks, so our backpacks weighted a whooping 23kg, but got lighter every day since we left food supplies for the way back on our way and ate the rest :). The hike is really amazing, we started at sea level, went up to 1100m along unnumbered beautiful waterfalls, crossed the mountain just in between two huge glaciers, went back down into the valley where big glacier-rivers flew down and made a nice delta-mouth(??). Then we passed through a very sparely overgrown plain until we reached a black-sanded dessert. After the dessert we were back in a very fertile mossy valley. We climbed up another mountain and came into a region that was very active in a volcanic meaning. We saw steaming (smelling!) springs and rhyolite-mountains that have all kind of colours from yellow to red. Later that day we reached a region that was fully covered with obsidian-stones that look like black-glass. The next day we crossed various treacherous snowfields and came to a huge block of black lava before we finally reacher our destinations at Landmannalaugur.
It's a really magical place and - you won't believe it - there is a natural hot pot. The water flows below the lava-field that is still cooling down is warmed up and pours into a basin where it mixes with cooler water. So within those basin you can have all the temperature you want, depending on how far you are away from the hot source. After 5 days of hiking there, we were really tired and so we spend 1.5 days there relaxing in the hot-pot before we hiked the same way back. Although I did not feel unlucky with the weather on the one way it got even better on the way back.
After 10 days of hiking it felt good to be back at our caravan, have a good(!!!) beer and put the backpack in the car instead of carrying it around, drink some milk, eat cheese and have a good steak!
A long time has passed and we have been highly active in Iceland. The last 10 days we have been hiking the beautiful Laugavegur in both directions. We read it's one of the most beautiful hikes in the world and I couldn't say anything else. We started each packed with equipment and food for almost 2 weeks, so our backpacks weighted a whooping 23kg, but got lighter every day since we left food supplies for the way back on our way and ate the rest :). The hike is really amazing, we started at sea level, went up to 1100m along unnumbered beautiful waterfalls, crossed the mountain just in between two huge glaciers, went back down into the valley where big glacier-rivers flew down and made a nice delta-mouth(??). Then we passed through a very sparely overgrown plain until we reached a black-sanded dessert. After the dessert we were back in a very fertile mossy valley. We climbed up another mountain and came into a region that was very active in a volcanic meaning. We saw steaming (smelling!) springs and rhyolite-mountains that have all kind of colours from yellow to red. Later that day we reached a region that was fully covered with obsidian-stones that look like black-glass. The next day we crossed various treacherous snowfields and came to a huge block of black lava before we finally reacher our destinations at Landmannalaugur.
It's a really magical place and - you won't believe it - there is a natural hot pot. The water flows below the lava-field that is still cooling down is warmed up and pours into a basin where it mixes with cooler water. So within those basin you can have all the temperature you want, depending on how far you are away from the hot source. After 5 days of hiking there, we were really tired and so we spend 1.5 days there relaxing in the hot-pot before we hiked the same way back. Although I did not feel unlucky with the weather on the one way it got even better on the way back.
After 10 days of hiking it felt good to be back at our caravan, have a good(!!!) beer and put the backpack in the car instead of carrying it around, drink some milk, eat cheese and have a good steak!
posted by Felix at 15:21
2 Comments:
ading all of this really makes me want to travel again very soon.
miss you, hugs
PIIIIIIIIIIIICTURES!!!
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