Another day of a good bit of driving with a few stops along the way, heading northwest to the Lake Myvatn (pronounced Mee-vawt)area, or as you will see from the photos below, you can call it Mars...
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| The town of Seydisfjordur- parts of the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" were filmed here and called Greenland |
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| It is easy to see why a film producer would want to use this setting! |
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| Just a short hike up the mountain- Tvisongur- a sound sculpture built to honor the Icelandic musical tradition of quintal harmony. |
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| Listening for the wind... |
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| Behind the boys is a huge frozen lake |
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| A close up of the lake shows the blue glacial ice just beginning to melt |
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| Of course there are waterfalls along the way! |
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| The landscape is ever changing... |
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| Dettifoss Waterfall- the most powerful waterfall in all of Europe- over 6800 cubic feet of water per second runs over the rocks |
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| You can see the spray from the falls from over a mile away and feel the ground shake |
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| Within walking distance of Dettifoss is Selfoss Waterfall- a beautiful horseshoe shaped fall |
Otherwordly!!
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| Namaskar Pass- geothermal mud pots and fumaroles |
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| This was not just a pile of smoking rocks, the steam was shooting out of the ground with an audible force |
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| And stinky too! The rotten-egg smelling sulfurous gas was strong all through this geothermal site- |
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| The ground is sterile, no vegetation grows here, the reddish color of the dirt is from iron- Looks like a scene from the movie "Martian" |
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Krafla erupted 9 times between 1975-1984
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| We took the Leirhnjukur trail through the lava fields, some of the rock & ash were still smoking |
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| Then there was also the snow... |
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| The Stori-Viti Crater ("stori-viti" means " big-hell")- nearly 1000 feet in diameter |
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