3FI 1501 - Island Feuer & Eis

Riding Day 8 - Today was the day! The famous Landmannalaugar was our goal to reach for lunch time! Fantastic off-road riding in a landscape looking like another planet with challenging water crossings all day long! The natural hot pot and a snack bought in an old bus haven't been the only reward after lots of work on the bikes. No the riding itself in this incredible and colourful mountains was the best reward you could get! Have a look at our pictures to see the riders performing art on motorcycles in Iceland! Riding Day 7 - Today was all about glaciers! A little cloudy in the morning it turned out incredible again. We stopped by the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon for an amphibian boat trip to get closer to the ice. The ice is more than 1000 years old and after it breaks of the glacier into the lake it can drift around up to 7 years until it breaks and melts into small enough peaces to float into the ocean! Luckily we took some crystal clear ice with us to the hotel. Why that? You'll find the answer in the pictures! Riding Day 6 - Today we did a relaxing ride through the 'forest area' of Iceland around the lake Lagarfljót. We continued on some gravel roads and soon we got back on the Ring Road 1 but in this part of the island the main road turns into a gravel road too. The 'Öxi' mountain road is a short cut over the mountains. An impressive ride with lots of turns, up and down - on gravel of course. We stopped for lunch in Djúpivogur and rode some very scenic sweepers along the coast reaching the hotel for the night in Höfn. Riding Day 5 - This day started with a nice gravel road to warm up for the day because it was quite cold. Today we got the real Icelandic weather and the sun was hiding behind clouds for most of the day. We were lucky with the rain though and only got wet for about 10 minutes. We explored the sights around Mývatn and continued to Egilsstadir in the east of the island. Have a look at our photos! Riding Day 4 - The 4th day was our rest day but because resting is boring everybody was in for a ride up to Húsavík. This town is well known for it's good location to do whale watching. And that's what we did. Unfortunately we only have one shot of a whale. Anyway we have lots of other good pictures so have a look! Riding Day 3 - After a long day yesterday today was rather short and relaxing. We planned two stops at museums, a lunch stop and arriving to our next overnight town Akureyri in the early afternoon. Nobody though expected that kind of amazing weather. So we took our time especially at the lunch stop and enjoyed the sunshine! Let's see the impressions of today. Riding Day 2 - Today it was all about the gravel road 35 leading us from the south in Selfoss way up north to Sauðárkrókur. Luckily this road goas by two major sights well known as parts of the famous 'Golden Circle'. So we stopped by befor hitting the gravel. The weather was absolutely stunning and not a single rain drop fell down on our helmets. Look at the pictures and find out more! Riding Day 1 - We finished our first ride through the rough and sharp lavafields around the Reykjanes peninsula. The weather was absolutely perfect and we enjoyed our day very much. Check out the new pictures! Finally it has begun! Edelweiss is back on Iceland and doing a complete loop around the island and all it's favorite sights. Waterfalls, fjords, coastlines, lavafields, gravelroads and glaciers of course! To start a tour like this first of all it's necessary to bring a couple of multipurpose motorcycles to this remote place in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The Triumph Tigers 800 & 1200 XC are be perfect to cover both curvy coastline roads and tough gravel roads through the highlands. So we sent Michael with the new Edelweiss Pick-Up truck and the trailer full of bikes on the journey from Mieming, Austria to Denmark, onto the ferry, crossing over to the Faeroe Islands and further to Iceland. Stay tuned and check out our pictures on this blog to get a glance of the magnificent spots this volcanic island has to offer!