Fire & Ice is over but the memories will last forever...

Day 9 - Hella - Reykjavik  Our last riding day. A bit of sightseeing at Kerið crater and at Þingvellir, both very busy, but riding around beautiful Hvalfjörður was so nice that we ended up doing it twice. Lunch was in the War & Peace museum. Not in an on-site cafe or so, no, right inside the museum. That's Iceland! Day 8 - Hof - Hella Today the group went seperate ways. One part who set the focus on riding and the other one who wanted to do riding and a little more sightseeing as well.  So the riding crew went up to the stunning area of Landmannalaugar with all its off-road riding, water crossings and colourful hillsides while the other half of the group followed the ring road to see some beautiful waterfall and black beaches. Day 7: Höfn - Hof Vatnajökull, by far Europe's largest glacier and the world's third-biggest mass of ice, was in our focus today. From Höfn we could already see some of his many tounges. We rode on a stunning jeep trail, tested some snowmobiles, marvelled at the famous ice lagoon, hopped aboard a Zodiac boat, climbed to see yet another glacier and even hiked to a famous waterfall (no pics, too exhausted...). Mileage wise this was not a long riding day, but it was a full day, packed with action! Day 6: Egilsstaðir - Höfn Finally we got some good weather again on our way to Höfn. Even tho it was still cloudy but on the important spots we even had a little sun so the colors of the landscape were bright and shiny. Here are some more pics of the stunning scenery of south-eastern Iceland Day 5: Húsavík - Egilsstaðir While the sun is out over most of Iceland, the north and north-east are covered by thick clouds. But that didn't keep us from riding on black gravel roads and visiting Dettifoss, probably Iceland's most stunning waterfall. For waterfall fans this is the holy grail! Day 4: Akureyri - Húsavík Day 3: Sauðárkrókur - Akureyri Today's ride was a short one and that was good, very good, because it was cold, very cold. As we took the scenic gravel road to Ólafsfjörður temperatures plummeted to 6°C. Heat wave? Never heard of it... Day 2: Selfoss - Sauðárkrókur   Time for us to leave the south-western part and head up to the north coast through the highlands with all its high temperature areas, geysers, waterfalls and glacial / volcanic shaped landscape. What a beautiful place to ride. Day 1: Reykjavik to Selfoss After over 40 days of rain the sun returned to Iceland today. We rode under a blue sky and looked at some of the attraction of south-western Iceland. It was a gorgeous first day of our tour. Stay tuned!