My Travels - Iceland 1998 - 9.day

22.August 1998

At morning we woke up to beautiful weather. After eating and packing, we rode back to see waterfall Dettifoss. Now, in sun, it introduced in whole beauty. Sun with help of falling water created rainbow. Our next target, was waterfall Selfoss. After seeing 2 waterfalls, we continued to Iceland specialty, mood volcano Namafjall. It was unforgettable view and smell. From all sides we were enclosed by sulphur fume mixed with steam. In excavation boiled black mood. It was allowed to use only marked pathway. White and yellow stains on ground, all around, were potentional dangerous places with high temperature and boiled mood, near of surface. If you want to see hell on earth, this is the right place. Smell attracted flies from wide range, and they were trying to enter in all holes on our body.

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From there we continued to Myvatn lake. There we had to spend night in camping. But before we went up to local observation point on hill Indelbergfjall. It's top is in 528 m and it is not problem to reach it. But on my way down, I sniffed fly and I have big problems to eject it. Only after half hour of intensive cough ,I left stop to stifle and only after next half hour I was OK. During this time we moved to our camping in Reykjahlid city. Our camp was situated near of lake. Besides of next 10 tourists, there were myriads of flies and they were trying to martyrize us. Later we found out, that it is better to turn against of wind and stay near of ground. Then it was much better. At evening, we visited local tea-shop and there we bought very good ice-cream with chocolate glaze. After sweat feast and city observation, we returned back. There we gathered in big tent (eating house), and wrote postcards. At evening it was so cold there, and we rather went to sleep into our tents.

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