Day 3 - 4.8. Going to North – Myvatn

It wasn’t hard to wake up early thanks to the Italians on ground floor. It needed little bit of assertiveness to conquer the kitchen and prepare morning tea. After breakfast we shortly explored neighborhood of camp.


Here you can see the tubes with hot and cold water leading to pool

Path going from the camp around the thermal area, nice walk for 1 hour

Old hut close to camp

Then we quickly packed ourselves and jumped into the car. Through the F35 road we headed to North again. Landscape changed little bit of „Mars“  was exchanged for little bit more green and grassy hills.

Green Iceland

First target of the day was Glaumbær – old buildings made from turfs, used now as museum.

View to whole historic area

Inside the turf house

Front side

Touristic center

By surprise we even received Czech brochure. All buildings are well preserved and give good overview how life was in past here. From here we went back to Road 1 and visited second largest city in Iceland – Akureyri. We came to the town during some festival so we had chance to see live music, street food and of course center itself – the dominant church, pedestrian zone and very small harbor. We took lunch in recommended Bautinn restaurant and as most tourists we tasted whale meat. It was ok; definitely different than anything else, we agreed that’s its something between steak, livers and wild. After meat stuff we took sweet bomb in Cafe Paris.

Some local heroes in Akureyri and me

Whale meat at Bautinn

Cafe Paris

Our sweet end at Cafe Paris

Next stop Godafoss – waterfall of gods. Again little bit different waterfall in horseshoe shape. We took longer path from gas station and it was really worth it. One hour later we reached our final destination for this day Myvatn Lake.

Godafoss

Myvatn lake

Already first stop justified the name – Lake of mosquitoes, they were everywhere, not biting but quite annoying. Our camp was beneath the small local airport, in front of lava field, as MasterCard says priceless view. We booked in advance a small cottage for 5 people and after first experience from Hveravellir was like Hilton for us.

Our hut for tonight

View to our hut (the one in the middle) photo from lava field

Hverfjall volcano

View from Hverfjall volcano to Dimmuborgir (we will go there tomorow)

We were allowed to use even luxury kitchen in guest house (pasta dinner), what we could have asked for more. Before we went sleep we made two small trips: first climbing on Hverfjall volcano, second natural thermal spa in Jardbodin. Both amazing, Hverfjall was our first volcano, we got here great overview above Myvatn area. It was also nice exercise and preparation for next daysJ. Jardbodin was also nice but price was little bit rubbish – 2800ISK per person.

Jardbodin baths

Driving 334km, road F35, ring 1, road 848