Day 4 - Tue 15 April

Lambafell  - Vik

We spent some time checking out the area around our hotel this morning.  What an amazing location.

We then headed back to Skogar where we had dinner last night.  Time to check out Skogarfoss.

We hiked up the path that you can almost see at the side to get a view from the top.

On our way back down we tried to stop at the little lookout halfway down but it was a seriously narrow slippery path (no guard rails here) and of course a tour bus turned up just as we got there and very rudely pushed through and in front of us - more worried about getting in, getting their photo then getting back on the bus than on anything else, I was a bit worried about the kids being pushed off the edge so I took them back to the main path and let Andy try and make it to the end.

We made it to the bottom and walked right down to the bottom of the falls.

Josh of course tried to fill in the lake - that boy does love to throw rocks.

Next we headed off down a very bumpy dirt road.  5km later we arrived at the tongue of the Solheimajokull glacier.

we walked over the hill from the parking lot and over the ash covered ice at the edge. (we're right next to Eyjafjallajokull which is the volcano that exploded in 2011 so this ash is probably  pretty new)

And down onto the glacier itself.

 

Lexie wanted to try a drink of glacial water, but rather than cupping some in her hands and drinking from her hands she decided it was easier to just get down on the ground and lap at the stream of water.....oakay.

One of the guided tours had left a rope down the edge of the glacier so we borrowed it to get up and down onto the first flat level of the glacier.

 From the glacier we headed south again to a region called Dyhroley.  A rocky plateau at the oceans edge surrounded by black sand beaches.  I was a bit skeptical when I heard about the "beautiful" black beaches, but I'm converted, they really are beautiful, especially with the white waves crashing against them.

Josh is very taken by the mythology of the area where the basalt columns rising from the ocean are trolls that have been turned to stone when they were caught in the sunlight and he had a great time finding "troll caves" and trying to figure out what the trolls were doing when they were caught etc.

We found a path down and had a walk along one of the beaches, found a troll cave to explore, and almost got cut off by the tide once again - what's with the tides in this place.

Around the other side of the headland, the kids refused to get out of the car, they'd had enough for the day, so Andy and I took turns walking out to the lighthouse to see the sea arch.  It was probably a good thing that the kids stayed in the car, the wind was so strong I had a hard time keeping my feet on the ground.

Our over night stop was in a little town called Vik.  a cute little town (emphasis on the little).  On our tour around town we found the local swimming pool so we did a spot of grocery shopping, booked into our hotel and had lunch then headed back to the pool.  This one wasn't quite as good as the first one, only one slide and the water temp was colder so we didn't spend too long in there.



Our Hotel in Vik



Just enough room for 4 single beds in the room.



view from our window.

vik