The River of Ice (Iceland Day 4)
After the glacier hike, we still had half the day to go. The plan was to make a stop at a popular vista point along a river and then negate all of our hard earned calorie burns with a treat at a restaurant specialising in Langostines.
This is the Glacier Lagoon. It is a very popular spot and a place to see lots of floating ice in the river. This last shot shows the view towards the outlet into the sea with the bridge passing overhead.
In this shot you can see more of the ice, as well as tourists getting up close and personal with the cute ice chunks.
And saving the best photo for last, with some added effects. Looks like a platformer game in an ice world. Or busy ice traffic. Either way, probably not a good idea to try and hop across the ice.
After visiting that we drove a bit to the restaurant.
Langostines! It was tasty, but I don't want to talk about how expensive that was and how not filling it was. Huff! We had to supplement that with bread and some other junk food.
The place we went was called Humarhöfnin Veitingahús if you were curious, and it seems relatively well known.
We saw a couple come in dressed all fancy in wedding getup. Apparently it's a thing for couples to come to Iceland and drive around to take wedding photos. Which kind of makes sense given how beautiful things are here but that seems like way too much effort.
After that, we ended the day at the hostel.
There was a beautiful horse which we took a photo of with a nice background.
And with the sunset as well!
That's all for now, thanks for following along this Iceland series so far! I've so far linked each post to the next, and will continue to do so. But if you want to jump to the beginning, here's a link.
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That horizon just goes on and on forever. I'd be sorely tempted to just keep walking to see what's around the bend.
loving all these photos eon! especially the islandic horses!! you have a great eye!
Thanks!
Wonderful photography, Eon. The food looks a bit scary to me though :P
It's definitely on the annoying side in terms of ease of eat.
Wide open spaces and glaciers. If I would see it with my own eyes it would probably feel surreal to me. The only ice that we have here are those served on glasses lol. We could use one of those right now as the weather is really hot here this season.
Haha that's true. You can have your own mini simulated iceland in a cup. It really is a sight to see.
<3 Pretty horse. Is it wild? And I love the super-saturated photo of the ice river. It's so nice <3 And also the sunset behind the horse. I love those colours!
Those are not wild. Someone was saying that they were brought in at some point in its history. I forget though. It all is so pretty :)
I have never heard of anyone calling ice cute, but thats cool.
Although I can't say the same for that plate. Nope. It sucks, though that you didn't get your money's worth. The most expensive thing when traveling is food and food is needed so people take advantage of that.
Yeah, we probably could have avoided these ones though haha. We got a foodie with us so we wanted to find some places once in a while. If you saw the ice, maybe you'd think it's cute too. Or just cool.
I could say ice is beautiful and sharp, mystically blue etc :p
It looks like a Skyrim ice bound land stage and I expect some Giant or Ice troll to suddenly roar and start running after you and you blast fireballs towards it hahahahha!!!
Fireball, I definitely invested in that. Never got too far in that game though.
Wow great photos :) would have been really cool being so close to the ice chunks. That food looked amazing! i hope you have a lovely day :)
Thanks! They are fun to poke at.
How absolutely gorgeous! Great photography :)
Thanks!
How glad were you to get back home again and give up this madness?
:)