Woke up at about 8am. Warden told us that it would be safer for us to hike together because the winds were up to 49mph.

The room was cold, and when we looked out the window we saw this.

Group picture before we left the hut.

Hiked 15KM from Emstrur – Þórsmörk (Pronounced Thorsmork)

Þórsmörk is just about 10km north of Eyjafjallajökull, (the volcano that erupted in 2010 which caused air traffic to stop in many parts of Europe)

Awesome pic of Eyjafjallajökull. Thanks Ryan!

Arrived an hour before the bus left back to Reykjavik. Its been a while since I’ve been so happy to see a bus in my life.

Its of a bummer that we didnt continue our journey all the way back to Skogar. The journey would have taken an extra day of hiking which we would hike inbetween Eyjafjallajökull and Katla (a volcano which erupts every 100 years, 10x bigger than Eyjafjallajökull and is suppose to erupt 2 years ago). Its said that when taking this route to Skogar you could walk up the foot of Eyjafjallajökull and the ground is still warm from the eruption in 2010. However with the condition of my legs there was no way I would be able to hike another 20km.

On the way back we passed Seljalandsfoss. The winds were so strong the waterfall flew back upwards. No good pics of this waterfall as we were in the bus 🙁

Bus ride took 2 hours. We then checked in at Backpackers.

What would YOU have for dinner?

Puffin taste kinda sweet. I like it.

Whale meat in the other hand…kinda tough even though we ordered Medium Rare.

Awesome sleep with proper beds.

Eventhough yesterdays forecast was to have terrible weather. We woke up to awesome weather. Bright, sunny & no wind. Excellent day for hiking and taking pictures.

We started our 16KM hike towards Emstrur.

We walked thru 2 rivers in which we had to take off our boots to cross as the depth of the rivers were up to almost knee height.

Both my knees were aching as soon as I woke up but slowly got better as the day passed.

Walking on volcanic ash.

A dormant volcant.

About 2/3rds of the way, we could see a cloud behind us

It got cold and started to drizzle about 10 minutes before we reached the hut. We arrived in the afternoon after about an 8 hour hike and spend some time with out hut buds from Holland, Germany & Spain.

Went to bed at about 10pm. We cold hear strong winds hitting the huts while we were sleeping, and would wake me up every time. All I could think about was what weather it would be like the next day.

Microwave Pasta for Breakfast

We took a 4 Hour Bus ride from Reykjavik to Landmannalaugar to start the Laugavegur hike. *Laugavegur is a hike route famous to experience a wide variety of landscapes in just 55km*

We stopped to take pictures of Mt. Hekla aka the Gateway to Hell. A volcano which has been active for thousands of years. Last erupted 2000, and is said to expected to erupt once every 10 years.

Our bus reached Landmannalaugar which was the start of our hike at around 1PM.

Destination Hrafntinnusker. 12KM

The journey begins.

If mommy saw this…………..

It took us 4 hours to reach this Hrafntinnusker. It was probably around 5:30. My knees were  sore probably from overuse. At this point some hikers already left for the next hut Alftvatn. We talked to the Warden and said that today’s weather was awesome, and that it was forecasted to have a snowstorm and winds of up to 45mph the next day. So I popped a couple of panadols for my knees, dropped off 3 litres of water, some heavy food and then gave Daniel some of my load to help ease my pain.

Next destination Alftvatn 12km. The sun sets at 9:15 so we would need to hurry or hike in the dark.

Daniel took a lot of pictures and my knee slowed our hike. We had to hike about an hour in the dark with torchlights and a GPS. Reached Alftvatn at about 10PM. Way too tired…

Had Pasta with sausages for dinner. At 11pm while I was washing the dishes the Alftvatn warden said “the light are here”

At 0 degrees, we went out to witness something everyone should see
The light looked like the were dancing. Moving up and down and side to side.

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The lights lasted about 5 minutes. Went straight to bed after.

It begins..

Arrived in the evening at Keflavik Airport. Flight took 4 hours from Heathrow, then took the 40 minute bus ride from Keflavik to Reykjavik.

Checked in at Igdlo Guesthouse. Spoke to the owner Fredrick about having some Icelandic food and recommended Cafe Loki about 15 minutes walk from here. He said that Icelandic food sucks but whatever I wanted to try some.


Took a peek at Hallgrímskirkja, the largest Church, and the 6th tallest building in Iceland to Cafe Loki. Here we had a combo platter consisting of fermented shark meat, dried fish, rye bread with butter, and a shot of Brennivíns as starter and a bowl of beef soup for the main dish.

The taste of the fermented shark was really strong and kinda taste like wasabi.

Repacking our bags for our epic hike the next day