Land of the Vikings - Days 3 & 4

by kaleo.fp

Day 3: Today was almost a free day, we only had to do horseback riding and then we can roam around freely. So of course at the horse back renting place I had to open my big mouth and said that I rode horses almost all my life… that means I got the craziest horse! My horse was named Kopar (Copper in English) and he was cute, but omg eager to just run ahead of everyone! We galloped and did the special smooth trot these horses are known for along the black beaches of southern Iceland. It didn't rain thank God!!! At the half way mark we’re now turning around and my horse is going crazy cause he knows it’s time to go home… I end up switching to a lazy horse cause Kopar is insane. I got Lysing (Lighting in English) she was really calm but had the worst trot ever, so I had to go up down with the beat of the trot (If you’ve ridden on a horse you’ll know what I mean). Going back these seagulls pooped all over us, it was so gross!! We’re now back in the car and head to the Plane Crash near by. It says its a 2 km walk… probably a lie, it felt like a 20 km walk there and back for just a photo of a plane. It was cool, but really not worth 2 hours of walking for 2 minutes of photos. After the plane crash we ate on the black sand beach in Vik.
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Kopar the Horse (photo: kaleo.fp)

Abandoned plane crash (photo: kaleo.fp)

Black sand beach in Vik with arches (photo: kaleo.fp)

Black sand beach in Vik with arches (photo: kaleo.fp)

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Day 4:
We’re doing Fjotsdalshreppur and Laki today. Fjotsdalshreppur is basically a canyon with a beautiful waterfall and river at the bottom. I went right up to the cliff side and that was so cool. Laki was even cooler in a way. You have to drive on an F-Road and there's about 4 river crossings with no bridges. I was laughing at every crossing cause it was so funny to see the family screaming saying the car is going to flood! I mean the facial expressions were priceless.

The car didn't anyway flood but the rivers were getting bigger cause of rain. Laki is a field of lava (dried lava unfortunately) and at the end of the road (took us about 1 hour) there's these gorgeous mountains you hike to get these beautiful views of the valley and lava fields. Going down the mountain while its raining is a different story… it was slippery and steep and my family and I were basically jogging down the mountain lmao to get back to the car as fast as possible.

(Part 3 and 4 in a weeklong series of entries about kaleo.fp's trip to Iceland)