My Travels - Iceland 1998 - 7.day

20.August 1998

To wake up after yesterday's party was very difficult. But shower made it easier. We reached Iceland
at 10 AM and before we landed there, I was fine. Island invited us with standard weather. Ground was hidden in fog and it was raining a little bit. But it didn't make any problems to us. We were staying on the board and looking for new adventures. We looked at nearing ground, Iceland.

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We landed in port Seydisfjordur. Here was finished the worst part of our travel for people with seasick. After landing we absolved passport control. Customs check absolved only our bus, together with our things. As we were instructed, sausages, bacons and bottles with alcohol were hidden on the bottom of our bags. It is prohibited to import these products on Iceland. But it is only question of beer bottles count, to blind eyes of customs officers. Before our bus arrived, we found local information service, where we took a lot of leaflets about Iceland. Information services are equipped very well here in Iceland, but it is the same in all north countries. After half hour we started our travel on Iceland continent. Hynek tuned up our popular radio Reykjavik and he "enjoyed us" with information, that we have unbelievable good weather today. We interrupted our ride, because we wanted to make some photo of beautiful view on Myvatn lake. Maybe that it was a beautiful view, but we didn't see each other in this fog nor lake. We changed our money in Egilstadir. We spent our free time there by visiting local shop.

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On our way to camp we visited beautiful waterfall Dettifoss. When I was in Norway, I saw a lot of waterfalls. But only here I understood, how big and beautiful waterfall might be. We saw it from place above waterfall, and there was possible to see a huge amount of water that fall down, to canyon of Jokulsa river. It was really unbelievable experiences and we knew, that we will see much more during this holiday. We entered into bus and continued to our camp. It's name was Asbyrgi. It was situated in huge stone horseshoe. It uprose with help of under iceberg volcano. After eruption volcano melted quantum of water from iceberg and this water broke everything on its way. The only one thing that left there, was horseshoe stone. There we built our tents and went to sleep . It was our first day in Iceland and we enjoyed the next morning.

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