Day 7 - Skaftafell
Trip Start
Jul 07, 2008
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Trip End
Jul 27, 2008
Skaftafell National Park, Iceland
Monday, July 14, 2008
Soon it started to rain and get cold again (it seems to rain for about 1min every 5 min or so here...very weird), but i wanted to go to Sjonarínpa, which is a lookout over the glacier Skaftafellsjökull, so i did. That was really cool too, but heading back was a little difficult...the trails in this country are not very well mared and are pretty difficult to follow. Needless to say I made it back eventually.
Tomorrow I´m headed to Landmannalaugar to hang out for a day before embarking on my 4-day hike to Þorsmörk. I was talking to an Australian guy who had done the hike and he said it is very difficult, much more so than the Lonely Planet book makes it out to be (they make it seem like everyone and their grandmother can do it). For example, the 3rd day is 16km, but they don´t tell you 10km of that is through sand!
Oh well, i´m still super excited. I wo´n´t be on here until the 20th at the earliest. Wish me luck!
