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3 - Landmannalaugar
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BUT WHERE DO THE ELFS HIDE ?...
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3 - Landmannalaugar
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(Trips to Iceland - June 2000 and June 2002)
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On the road to Landmannalaugar,
this sign left us perplexed... Who should we ask to observe us as we cross
? We cross anyway... |
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The road to Landmannalaugar
many lakes, and white sand ! |
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(below) The Ljotipollur lake is nested in a crater - as we might have guessed -
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and - would you believe it ? - the water is blue, and the shores of the crater are red... It is said that many trouts live
here... |
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At the end of Landmannalaugar Valley, we find essentially a hut (with a natural swimming pool, in the open - we have been told that the custom is to bathe naked...). This is the starting point of the renowned Landmannalaugar to Porsmörk trek : a classic. |
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Surprising landscape, animated by the sun which races behind the clouds...
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The ascent of Brennisteinsalda, which overlooks the hut, and whose base is hemmed with fumaroles, is also the starting path of the Porsmörk trek. After crossing a lava field - with enormous obsidian blocks - we climb to dominate an astonishing landscape of rhyolite mountains, whose relief is enhanced by the June snow. |
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And here are the volcanic formations which have - it is said - given rise to the legend of the trolls... But is it really a legend ? |
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