#snæfellsnes peninsula

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Autumn in Snæfellsnes peninsula,Iceland

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That Mountain in Iceland

📸 by Mads Peter Iversen

Kirkjufell "Church Mountain" is a high hill on the North Coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes Peninsula

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Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland

John Thomas

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Gatklettur, a rock arch on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland |  © Phillip Chow / Moment / Getty Images

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Arnarstapi

Snæfellsnes, Iceland

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Snæfellsnes Peninsula, 2020

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you were in Iceland?? epic! I've been there as well (in 2022), how was it? how was the volcano? (if you don't mind me asking, feel free to ignore this)

Yes! I was there 5/18 to 6/1. I've wanted to go for like a decade and have been semi planning this trip for 2024 for a year and a half, then properly researching and planning since January. It was SO AMAZING. Exactly everything I wanted :) I was ready to go home at the end for like, my own bed and some rest, but now I miss it and want to go back lol

If you went in 2022, did you get to hike to the Fagradalsfjall eruption? I know those were the "tourist" ones that people could get closer to. The current eruptions are part of another volcanic system on the Reykjanes peninsula, Svartsengi. They aren't open for hiking. It erupted again 3 days before I left. I got to see it twice! On our last full day we drove out of Reykjavik and saw it along the highway, and then the day we left we stopped on the way to the airport. I took this with my 250 mm from literally the side of the highway:

It caused no interferences with our travel. It's a fissure eruption, so the lava is erupting along a fissure and isn't as big and explosive. Initially they were afraid this one might disrupt air travel if the lava flowed to the sea (producing more ash and steam) but it didn't. It was very cool to see! I feel bad for the people who lived in Grindavik though, it’s been months since they had to evacuate and there isn't an end in sight for them yet. The Icelandic government really stays on top of things like road closures, weather reporting, etc so I checked their websites daily. The main concern with the eruption as gas pollution, so I just checked their pollution forecast to see if the wind was going to blow it over us or not (it didn't.)

Our trip went great. We had mostly good weather and apparently left just in time because this last week there's been a pretty nasty problematic storm across the whole country that left a bunch of people stranded. But we left 2 days before that. We drove 3,300 km in our rental car (2,050 miles) and did the entire ring road + some of the Westfjords + Snæfellsnes + Húsavik + Borgarfjörður Eystri as detours. Our rental car was named Jim because that was his license plate. We bonded with him lmao

Here's a few photos :)

Major things I did: Katla Ice Cave, Vestmannaeyjabær, Silfra snorkeling in 2°C water, Jökulsárlon boat tour, Húsavik whale watching, countless waterfalls, puffins at Borgarfjarðarhöfn, Hvammsvik hot springs & Sky lagoon, and Mulagljufur Canyon.

It was at coldest, 2°C (35°F) with downpour rain being pushed sideways into your face by wind to the point you could hardly open your eyes. It was at hottest 19° C (66°F) and sunny. We mostly got great weather, it was only one day that was particularly bad. Mostly it was between 7°C - 13°C (45°F - 55°F) the whole time.

I NEVER saw it get dark and that was a novelty to me the entire trip. Like it never settled in as something I got used to. Presumably it got mostly dark somewhere around 2 am but I was always asleep by then and even if I woke up to go the bathroom, it'd be like 4 am and already light again. The furthest north we stayed was Ísafjörđur, and according to timeanddate.com by May it never reaches full dark, only civil twilight for 3 hours and daylight the other 21. I can't imagine if I'd actually have been there during the solstice, with just that extra month for the days to be even longer!

Now I want to go back for a short winter trip to see the northern lights and then for a proper summer trip to see the highlands (closed the whole time we were there for thawing season)

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As attested in the Landnámabók - The Book of Settlements, the Helgafell mountain (Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland) was declared a holy site of Thórr by the very first man to settle in the area. Thórólfr Mostrarskegg, whose biography is detailed in the Eyrbyggja saga, had a shrine built to his God on the site. According to the Laxdæla saga, the hero Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir was buried at the foot of the Helgafell mountain.

Folk tradition has it if one climbs the mountain without saying a word or looking back once, one will be granted three wishes.

“You can make three wishes at the top of the mountain if you follow these exact rules:

First, find the grave of Guðrún. It is north of the church and the cemetery.

Make sure that your mind is free of bad thoughts.

Make a cross over Guðrún´s grave with your right hand.

It is important that you climb the mountain with good thoughts.

Make sure that you are not dirty and that you have washed your face.

Do not talk at all on the way to the wishing place.

Do not look to the right or to the left – just look straight ahead.

Go into the small enclosure (maybe this was once a chapel of the monastery and they prayed from here. A part of the wall has been dated at 1184).

Face to the east. (The town of Stykkishólmur can be seen to the north).

When you make your wishes, they must be only for the good.

Make three wishes.”

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Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland

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Svörtuloft Lighthouse on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland

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Kirkjufellsfoss, Iceland

Kirkjufellsfoss is a picturesque waterfall located on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in Iceland. It is situated near the iconic Kirkjufell mountain, which has a distinct cone-shaped peak and is often referred to as the "Church Mountain" due to its resemblance to a church steeple.

By Martin Morávek

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Witch's hat and northern lights 😍

Kirkjufell, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland.

October 2022

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Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland

John Thomas

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Bárður Snæfellsás Statue

The Bárður Snæfellsás Statue stands in Arnarstapi, a small fishing village nestled on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula of Iceland.

Read more at: https://paganplaces.com/places/bardur-snaefellsas-statue/

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Stopping on a drive to stretch our legs

Snæfellsnes, Iceland

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Snæfellsnes peninsula, 2020