My Travels - Iceland 1998 - 11.day

24.August 1998

At morning it was cloudy, but didn't rain. At 9:00 we went to Dummborgir. In translation this word means black forest. In reality, it is black stone city, created by nature. Streets of this city were pathways, with colored markings, and maps on crossings. The most beautiful part of the city was Kirkja, the church created from basalt crystals.

From Dummborgir we went to see black volcano Hverfjall. The volcano consists from huge amount of black slag, with circle crater inside it. Nearby should be place, where US astronauts, with Neil Armstrong, had practised landing and moving on moon. I believe, that there they had really real conditions, because we also felt sometimes like on the moon. We didn't find the specific place. After climb on Hverfjall we went down on another side of volcano.

There we found Grjotagja, the stone break point with caverns and thermal water. We wanted to swim in it at first, but fortunately we thought better of it. The radiant heat from water indicated us high temperature of water. To Reykjahlid we came at 4:30 PM. It was sunny weather, we took advantage of it and we tanned on the sun. At evening we all played "Mariáš" (card game). I wasn't very good, because I was only one, who lost many games. It forced me to go to sleep, with idea, that tomorrow I will be more successful.

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