We saw a bunch of hot springs and geysers on our trip. They all have signs marked that the hot springs are, well, hot. The steam and hot water can burn you. And the sulphurous smell is real, like rotten eggs out in the middle of nature.
But all smells aside, the sights we've seen can be jaw dropping. Like these waterfalls.
Today we walked up to a glacier, Solheimajokull. Just like in the magazines, this glacier had a sublime blue tinge. Remember in the movie, Into The Wild, where you got towards the end and you feel like your eyes just opened for the first time? I swear I had that moment when I saw and touched the glacier with my own two hands. The whole landscape is like you're at the edge of the world, cold white ice against the black ash that had fallen from last year's volcano eruption. Its really wild. What is most striking is how much the glacier has receded. A tour group or school group marked where the edge of the glacier was in October 2010. I'm not as good at judging distance, but I think we walked 10 minutes from the mark to the actual edge of the glacier. It was shocking to realize how quickly the ice melts.
4 comments:
Your travel blog is so inspiring! Beats watching American Idol any day. (For real though!) ;)
Glad you 2 are having such an amazing time!
Appreciate and photograph that glacier while you can, because your grandkids will not know what a glacier is.
P.S. any elf sightings?
earth farts...
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