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21 Jul 2015
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Wow, what a beautiful pictures !
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22 Jul 2015
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Wow, what a beautiful pictures !
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24 Jul 2015
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In the morning we toured the National Park. This is an important site as it was the location of the first parliament established in 930 and remaining here until 1798. The park was founded in 1930 to mark the 1000 th anniversary. It is also a location where you can see the continental plates are pulling apart.
olafsvk 4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
DSC01203 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 21 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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olafsvk 11 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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olafsvk 24 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 28 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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24 Jul 2015
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Our plan for the day was to head north to the Snaefellsnes Peninsula.
Screen Shot 2015-07-13 at 12.57.43 AM by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We did take the long way around the fjord and not the tunnel shortcut and we also took 40 km loop on the dirt roads towards the west coast to see the wetlands. Here you can see a lot of the famous Icelandic horses.
olafsvk 32 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 34 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 31 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 36 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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olafsvk 40 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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olafsvk 44 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 46 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 47 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 48 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 83 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We were just inside the Snaefellsjoekull National Park and driving down a side road to see a waterfall we found the 800 has a low rear tire.
olafsvk 52 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 53 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We pumped it back up, but when we check it again in 10 k it was low again. At least we had a pullout off the road to change the tire. Inspecting the tube dry we could not find a hole and we could see nothing inside or outside on the tire. We put in a new tube and headed off.
olafsvk 56 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 54 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 58 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
olafsvk 60 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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But first we decided to try and see if we could get up the road near Olafsvik, which goes up to the glacier. It all went well for about 20 km until the road was blocked with snow!
north to puffins 2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 1 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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north to puffins 17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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Back on the intermittently paved highway we were headed west and north past lava fields, lush green hills, and waterfall after waterfall.
north to puffins 31 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
IMG_4170 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 32 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 35 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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north to puffins 42 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 43 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 44 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 46 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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north to puffins 50 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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north to puffins 56 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
north to puffins 57 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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