Sunday 28th May

Day 2

After a small but enjoyable breakfast, we set out quite early to continue travelling east to Jokulsárlón, which is a glacial lagoon where parts of the Vatnajökull glacier break off and flow into the sea. A huge tourist spot, our journey there was plagued by rain, fog, sea mist and although we knew there were mountains next to us, we could not see their peaks.  We stopped off to photograph them and ended up helping someone change her tyre! On our approach to Jokulsárlón, we saw three large glaciers which were pretty impressive!

Jokulsárlón

After having a simple sandwich lunch in the car which was really enjoyabe, we headed west towards Skaftafell Visitors Centre from where we first went on a walk to Skaftafoss waterfall, and then we went in the opposite direction to seethe foot of a glacier.  We didn’t have time to get too close, but it was still pretty impressive.

Skaftafoss

We made our way back to the car and travelled westward to Kirkjubaerjarklaustur,a I took lots of photos on the move of the mountains which we had not been able to see on the way there in the morning.  We found our hotel which seemed like it was in the middle of nowhere, and also fairly new in parts. We checked in really quickly and we were advised to book a table for dinner, which I did straight away. We settled in our room for a bit!I did some yoga to stretch out my legs after walking about 6 miles, and went for dinner. Mathew had the burger and I tried arctic char which turned out to have a really delicate flavour and it was also very light.