Jokusarlon to Vik

The next morning, we awoke to more icebergs floating around, sunny skies, and warmer weather it seemed. After breakfast, we headed towards Skaftafell park, and started a hike there, which Dave knew to be a good one. It turned out to be an awesome hike, but we were hit with some rain off and on, and low clouds. We climbed from about sea level to 900 meters up, so it was another climbing day, which tired us out in a good way. The hike went past more awesome waterfalls, marshy areas, gigantic and daunting cliffs, the tongue of a glacier, and ultimately to the peak of that area. It was a looping hike too, which was awesome, and ended up being about a 6 hour hike, so we were glad we had lunch with us. This park was our first park with many other people hiking, but once we got past the initial mile or so, we barely saw anyone.

View from up on a small peak, looking at the lake and our tents (bottom left area)

Closer view to the tents

Buenos dias

Morning walk

Selfies

best morning teeth brushing you could ask for

The hike first passed Svartifoss waterfall and basalt columns

And then onward and upwards

We got pretty wet in some areas

We were in and out of the low clouds, which was pretty eerie at times

We eventually made it up to the peak of those two big guys, maybe higher? Can't remember

We ate lunch at this point, which had some scary dropping cliffs, and was only about halfway up as high was we went

The top! Above the clouds

Jaylah standing near another daunting cliff, which we couldn't even see the bottom of

On the way back down, we got to hike along the ridge overlooking a tongue of the glacier

After Skaftafell, we were pretty beat, and went ahead and took advantage of their campground cooking facilities. But then we continued on the road a bit to find a spot to camp for the night. We stopped off in Vik, and checked out the beach and some rocks called the "Three Trolls", and even saw some good waves. We didn't see anywhere to camp there, so we drove a little bit further and found a nice spot for the night.

Three Trolls