Iceland: A song of Ice and Fire - Part IV- Icelandic adventure

This is the story of our honeymoon in Iceland in the month of December 2016, the is the third part of the blog. If you are interested you can check out the first part : Iceland: A song of Ice and Fire - Part I, the second part: Iceland: A song of Ice and Fire - Part II and the third part: Iceland: A song of Ice and Fire - Part III- Icelandic adventure begins.

Next morning I got up early, around 6:30 AM. I went down to be with the car, spent some time with it trying to get accustomed to at as it I would have to entirely rely upon it for next 7 days and nights. The air in the morning was chilly and sunrise was expected at 9:30 AM. The itinerary for the day and the route is below:

The expected daylight for the day was 4hr 30 mins, and the drive planned was for 3 hr 44 min which meant I had to start before sun rises and end after dark. We loaded ourselves with the sumptuous breakfast at the hotel and started our journey at 9 AM. My wife was the navigator for the journey with google maps helping her, we navigated out of Reykjavik city pretty easily and rays of sun started shining through. Suddenly it started to snow, along with a medium gale. The visibility decreased , but we kept on driving. What a dangerously beautiful experience it was, even today when I see the picture I find it hard to believe we were there that moment.

After a distance the weather gradually cleared up, we reached The Icelandic Horse Park Fákasel, Suðurlandsvegur, Iceland. Its a farm of horses, and the Icelandic horses are so beautiful with their silky well kept hair.

Our next destination was Strokkur Geysir, let me stop my description and let the photos do the talking.

Our next destination was the beautiful Gullfoss, as one first approaches the falls, the edge is obscured from view, so that it appears that the river simply vanishes into the earth. There is very interesting story, Sigríður Tómasdóttir, the daughter of Tómas Tómasson, was determined to preserve the waterfall's condition and even threatened to throw herself down. Although it is widely believed, the very popular story that Sigríður saved the waterfall from exploitation is untrue.

By the time we reached Seljalandsfoss, the sun was almost setting, but the view that awaited us is hard to describe in words:

After such a beautiful day, we ended our day Country Hotel Katla, Vik. Hope you guys are liked this post, would be grateful if you share your thoughts and inputs, would help me improve my blogging.