Started to leave Jökulsárlón at 6am as we could not get that much sleep.

Drove about 90 minutes West to Kirkjubæjarklaustur. A small town of just 120. We filled up the gas tank and then waited for the Gas stations shop to open. We had a hotdog and a cup of hot chocolate. Here is where I found out that my hiking boots had broken down.

Something we really needed from the crazy cold last night. Rested for a bit then headed 45 minutes East to Skaftafell National Park. Here we hiked about 45 minutes in heavy rain to the famous Svartifoss.

At the Skaftafell National Park Parking area. Real wet & foggy.

Some waterfall on the way

Not Svartifoss!

Svartifoss!

Svartifoss surrounded with awesome rock formations

Would have been a good shot if we had good weather. We headed back to the car right after. Drenched in rain, my rain jacket has failed me. After 9 years, its time for it to retire.

We then drove 170 West to Skógar where we checked in and stayed the night.

We then walked outside our hostel where we took pictures of Skógafoss.

Skógafoss is one of Iceland’s biggest waterfalls. Over 25m.

Near the top of Skógafoss

As the sun was setting, we headed to Seljalandsfoss about 20 minutes away.

Inside Seljalandsfoss

3 waterfalls in a day.

Headed back, had dinner, and bed.

Today’s route

http://goo.gl/maps/mbppj

This is how our hostel looked like. We could not see what it was like the night before as there we were in the middle of no where and had no street lights.

Continue our journey 200km east towards Hofn.

Stopped at Jökulsárlón.. ill let the pictures speak for itself

This is where the lagoon meets the oceon where Icebergs drift into the sea.

Jökulsárlón is a glacial lagoon and is truly Iceland’s natural wonders.

We spend a good amount of time here taking pictures.

We then continued our journey and stopped at Hofn (pop > 2000, biggest town we’ve seen other than Reykjavik. The only reason why we stopped here because of the Dutch couple who said we should…we ended up just eating hotdogs here as all the attractions are closed due to it being late in the season.

We then drove 30km further east to Stafafell.

Going offroad to reach our starting point.

Weather was sunny and was a good day for hiking.

The start of Stafafell hike. I think it was previously a big river here.

Freshest water i’ve ever drank.

Doing the “Chewie boy”

Single File.

Hiked for 2-3 hours roundtrip. This was the furthest east we went, we’d like to do the whole ring road (which could be done in 24 hours) however we would not have much time to explore anything.

We drove back and decided to be badasses and sleep in the car at Jökulsárlón to hopefully catch some northern lights with the awesome Glaciers for awesome pictures. The weather turned bad it just rained on us. It got freezing temp cold and we had to use emergency blankets to keep ourselves warm. We got no Northern Lights, uneeven sleeping surface, and crappy sleep.

Daniel slept in the front seat. I slept at the back with the back seats down.

Route we took today.
http://goo.gl/maps/FhDEG