After that tough night we slept until 10
a.m. But our painful way here was appraised by beautiful area we reached; they
call it oasis in wasteland. Land with grass, trees and a small river was big
difference to everything around this place where you can find only dust and
rocks (and lava of course).
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| Green oasis |
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| Our tent |
We took breakfast in guesthouse (which was
absolutely free last night) and had to say goodbye to this lovely place. We had
still 40 kilometers to Askja. It took us another hour to get there. We quickly
checked conditions and decided to use reservation I made before in guest house.
Dreki hut/camp was based on dust and sand and it was very windy, we were not
sure if our „supermarket“ tent would like this weather. The guest house was
very nice, clean and quite new, the kitchen well equipped. At 1 p.m. we started
our trek to Askja. It was definitely one of the best ones, 9 kilometers, 500 metres
elevation, 3 hours.
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| Approaching Dreki camp under Askja |
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| Enjoy |
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| Up to the hill through the Askja |
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| Big lake inside Askja caldera |
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| Area inside the Askja is enormous |
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| View from the askja to the neighborhood (with Jirka in green) |
Ivo that day on diet took only one bag of nuts, they were
done after one hour. Anyway after 3 hours going up and down and up and down we
finally reached big lake inside the caldera and also small Viti lake where it’s
possible to swim. Water here was 25 C
and is blue. After short bathing we noticed that we stink like miners from
sulfur mine (and mainly our towels). Have to say that this smell was with us
for the rest of our stay in Iceland – yep some water really smells here.
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| Smelly Viti lake |
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| and we are inside |
For
the way back we had two teams, one with Ivo practicing hitch-hiking back to
camp and Jirka and I going back 9 kilometers over the whole Askja volcano. This
time it took us only 2 hours. In camp Ivo in the meantime prepared our favorite
Heinz beans and a goulash soup. Then it was time to pee and go sleep.
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| Coming back to camp |
Driving 33km, roads F88 and F910
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