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.