Iceland Costs:
-Gas:$ 311.29 for a small SUV, split 3 ways: 103.76
-Car Rental: $ 1, 846.92 with Sixt Car Rental, split 3 ways: 615.64
-Air BnBs for 5 nights: $739, split 3 ways: 246.33
-Groceries: 128 from me, unknown what my companions spent
-Camping: very approximate at an average of 20 dollars a night per person, 5 camping nights, 100 per person, or 300 total.
-Accommodations over all: 346.33 each.
-Eating Out: $ 160 each (includes a pastry, hot dog in reykavik, sandwich, sea food dinner, fish soup with dessert, hamburger in reykavik, and post backpacking hike meal)
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Activities
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Place to sleep
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Friday June 16
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Fly out of YEG at 6:25 p.m.
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On the plane
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Saturday 17
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Arrive at KEF 6:40 a.m.-Get Maps! pick up our car at Sixt - stop to overlook the blue lagoon (rd 43)! Bridge between 2 continents( rd 45 to 425) to reykavik (rd 41)
Tour Reykavik (p.54)
Iceland National Day Activities
Schedule is on: http://www.17juni.is/
Stop at Hallgrímskirkja- church in iceland, free to enter, pay to go up the tower for a view.
Shopping on Laugavegar street- souvenir shops
-Driving by the blue lagoon for a look see on our way to reykavik
-Eat out- famous hot dog at market
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Air bnb: Kopavogur
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Sunday 18
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Church at 11 a.m. in Selfoss
Golden circle |
Air BnB: Hella
Check in 5 p.m -10p.m.
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Monday 19
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Park rental at campground, hop on bus/tickets for Day 1 of Laugavegurinn hike- 24 kms (8-10 hours hiking)
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Camp
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Tuesday 20
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Day 2- 16 kms (6-7 hours)
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Camp
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Wednesday 21
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Day 3- 15 kms (6-7 hours)
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Camp
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Thursday 22
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Day 4 - 23.4 kms (10 hours)-
Bus ride from skogar back to hella for our car
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Air BnB: Hella (same as above)
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Friday 23
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Icelandic Horse ride ($92 each) With our air bnb hosts
-Stop at Seljalandfoss falls (½ hour east of hella), Then stop a ½ hour further at Skogafoss waterfall.
-solheimajokull (148) tongue of the glacier 800 m walk
-Jökulsárlón- Glacier Lagoon - BEST THING I SAW ON THE TRIP. AMAZING
-Cook camping style for dinner
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Camp- Hofn campground, right in the city, (cost approximately $25 a person)
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Saturday 24
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Drive up to Husavik, on the way,
Do parts of the Diamond Circle as time allows
(turquiose water at mytvan, p.223)
Sat Afternoon:
Whale museum,
Gentle Giants whale watching and puffin tour on speed boats: 7 p.m $200 a person. We saw Blue whales and humpback whales only 5-10 feet from the boat.
-Eat Out Seafood: $45 dollars a person but we enjoyed. We ate at “Salka” right by the whale watching departure spots.
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Air BnB:
Akureyri
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Sunday
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akureyri branch at 11 am (it’s at someones house, we couldnt find it)
-We backtracked to Goddafoss waterfall 40 min. , then drove on the rest of the day to West Fjords
-Cook Campground Style
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“Freedom Camped” off the road just before Dynjandi Waterfall.
The waterfall has bathroom and sinks as you used to be able to camp there.
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Monday 26th
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For West Fjords: Check out this site
We Explored the most South west of the peninsulas of the West Fjords:
-Dyanji Waterfall
-Latrabajarg Bird Cliffs
Like 6 hours round trip, so one way 3 hours off the westfjords “ring road”
(Worth the detour for us, you watch puffins from 2 feet away and they dont even care, lots of photo opportunities, plus its the most western point of Europe. If you want to see Puffins, this is the place to see them, if they are season, they are are only on land certain times of the year.)
-Raudasandar beach- a gold beach, very beautiful
-Drove all the way to the Snaefelles peninsula
-Cooking at campground
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Camped at Stykkisholhm (known as Stykkish), in town campground on the Snaefelles peninsula
(There is nothing in this town to see but there is grocery store, gas station and bakery)
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Tuesday 27th
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On the Snaefelles Peninsula:
-Stopped at Kirkjufell (Church Mountain) most photographed mountain in iceland .
-backtracked down to Basalt Columns at Gerduberg
-Olkelda Farm, road 571- carbonated water straight from the ground, 200 ISK donation we paid once and all took a swig. Really cool!
-Lysuholl- 1000 ISK per person, hot springs
-Vatnshellir Cave Tour - $90 a person, fun.
-Eat at Gimli Rif, in the small fishing village of “Rif”, it’s at the end of town, and just looks like a house. It was so worth it, $26 dollars for fish soup and bread. A really neat atmosphere and legit.
-Went back to Kirkjufell for better weather to hike it. Vertigo inducing, local ropes put up tied to rocks and dirt to use to climb up, 460 meter elevation gain.
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Stayed at Air bnb
Dalabyggo- old farm house with hot tub
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Wednesday 28th
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On our drive back to the airport, we did more shopping in Reykavik
-Stopped at the Keflavik maratime museum
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