W drove towards Eyjafjörður to visit the famous Turf Houses or Laufas. Up to 20-30 people were living here at Laufás, including domestics. The furnishing inside is from around 1900 and shows how Icelanders were living at that time. We were able to see inside some of these houses. They even had a church! There…
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Iceland – Egilsstadir to Akureyri
As always, here is the map of today’s road trip on the north side of Iceland The north of Iceland offers a completely different nature experience. Some of these places look like you are in another planet like Mars. After a long drive starting in Egilsstadir, our first stop was at the Namafjall geothermal area….
Iceland – Hofn to Eglisstadir
Today’s adventure took us from Hofn to Eglisstadir (I will be adding maps to our blog moving forward to show exactly in the map where are all these stops). We jumped in the car led by our amazing driver Dan, and started our drive to the Vestrahorn, a mountain in south-east Iceland, noted for its…
Iceland – Vik To Hofn
Eitan woke up early that morning to drive to Black Sand Beach or Reynisfjara, while the rest of the family slept a bit more. Reynisfjara is not the only black-sanded beach in Iceland, but it is probably the most iconic. As an island simmering with volcanic activity, some of Iceland’s beaches have black sand because…
Iceland – Reykjavik to Vik
Day 2 of the Icelandic road trip was packed with exciting sights around the famous “Golden Circle” The first stop was at the Thingvellir National Park. After some quick changing of clothes we walked toward the main area. Iceland is divided by the Mid-Atlantic Rift; some parts of it, such as the Westfjords and Reyjavík,…
Iceland Origins – Reykyavik
We spent around 1 week road-tripping around Iceland in 2018 with Sarah’s family, and I finally have the time to work on the Iceland trip blog!! I will be dividing the blog post per day, so they will be a little long and will primarily include photos as I don’t want to bore you all…
WHERE IS NOODLE 