We started very early today since we planed to head to the southeast part of Iceland. Weather was not good,raining very hard.
Drove on the high way,although not many cars,I still felt unsafe since it was raining hard and the moutain road had lots of blindhead. Car kept moving fast,suddenly the rain stopped and little bit sunshine on us again.Strange weather or we just drove out of the raining cloud!
Our planed distination is Skogafoss- a nature resource place. Along the road we saw many waterfalls,small ones and big ones. Water running nonstop. From far away it was just a beautiful painting: Green moutains and clouds gentlely touching the moutain as if do not want to wake them up,at the moutain foot there are camping places, and water keep falling from the moutain. We stopped at the first waterfall because we could go behind the waterfall,well cold and wet after through the water!
Waterfall
There were lots of the waterfalls on the way, but they were all different for me.Finally we were at the Skogafoss, there was also a big waterfall. But we were trying to find the hiking road from there and go for a hiking. Unfortunately we could not. By the map we found another way which could lead us to the same rout.
This way was little bit terrible and much worse than the bad moutain road I said before. And oh God! there was a river running through the middle of the road. If we want to continue we must drive across the river, the river seems not deep but quite broad. Well, first we waited and waited to see if some other cars could cross the river. But there was no one. Ok, we started to hike from here! That was our first decition, weather started to become worse,raining hard and wind and we have to cross the river by our feet. No! after 30 minutes we decided to drive the car cross the river. It was not a pleasant thing to cross the river but we succeded! Like this we crossed about 6 similar sized river. At the 7th, we doubted again, it was much broader and seems much deeper. We wanted to give a try,almost reach the other side,some bad things happened! the right front wheel stucked in the stone and mud,engine stopped! We were stucked in the river! I was little bit scared since it was a place with no one.... Luckily after few minutes,some jeeps passed by and they helped to drag us out of the river. Thanks! I felt much better! and we decided to go back and not continue any more,since this road is not for our kinda car. But there are problems again, back means we have to cross the rivers again,7 rivers! I was counting them one by one. Oh! good! everything went fine while we were crossing back. I want to kiss the great car!!! (I have to do little advertisement here: We were again proved the quality of a Toyota car)
After this scaring and exciting drive, we felt rather tired. So we were back to the city quite early, and went to eat some typical Icelandic food. We had shark meat,whale meat and some sea bird meat. Strange taste! Well, they can not become our favorite food but at least we knew how it tasted! [to be continued]
Iceland-3 Scaring road
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And then you still forgot to blog about the walk we had in Skogafoss after that! Maybe tomorrow?
Also quite some adventure in the Icland mountains. Don`t you demage the car a little bit? But you take beautiful pictures of the Waterfalls!
Quit some adventure in the Iceland mountains!
Didd`nt you damage the car a little bit?
But you have sure taken nice pictures of the Waterfalls.