22nd May - Vatnajökull & Jökulsarlon

I planned hitch-hike to Vatnajökull for the greatest glacier in South Iceland, the only bus from the town left when I had just finished my work in the farm at 11.45am

 

When we come up to the main road all the way drive to the East, we can see the peak of  Vatnajökull from far. Even it's still have 2 hours drive to reach there 

 

I'm lucky to hitch-hike with a tractor driver who are going to east of Iceland and he will bypass Skaftafell (Vatnajökull) the National Park in South Iceland

 

 During the way from Vik to Vatnajökull, we passby a place full of lava form everywhere

Kunnal (the name of the kind tractor driver, 70's old this year) told me this is the area where  Lakagígar happen between year 1783 - 1784

Lakagígar is volcanic fissure in a mountain name Laki in south Iceland

Mountain Laki doesn't erupt itself but fissures opened on each side of it

This is the greatest eruption in the world comes to date

It killed almost 50% of livestock and human population in Iceland

It's affected the great revolution in France at the same time as well

 

During the trip, there's waterfall almost every mountain

 

The black sand along the coast line all the way from south to east

 

The water of ocean is getting less and lesser yearly.... 

Therefore the black sand appeared from the water level

 

Finally we saw the Vatnajökull but it's still an hour to reach there

 

Road No.1 to Skaftafell (Vatnajökull)

 

And, we passby the longest bridge in Iceland

 

There's the glacier we can easily see from the main road. 8100 sq km, reaches a thickness of 1km in places and, if you could find a scale big enough, you'd find it weights 3000 billion tonnes!! Well, don't ask me how I know all about this as I just transform the message from Lonely Planet like most of the blogger does the same ^o^ At least it's referable

 

 The volcanol has been erupted last time and cause the collapsed of Gigjukvisl bridgeat 1996's

 

 The white area is theVatnajökull - Earth's largest ice cap outside the poles. It's boundaries encompass the ice cap and the former Skaftafell and Jökulsarlon Natural Parks, forming a 12,000-sq-km megapark that covers 12% of Iceland

 

 After persuaded by Kunnal, I decided to drop off at Jökulsarlon, as there's a touristm hot spot place

 

 The glacier here cause the lower temperature of the surrounding area, I was walking around the place about an hour then decided to leave before it's too late to hitch-hiking back to Vik 

Another unknown Icelander brought be back this time

 

It's my 1st journey video I made while sort of bore during hitch-hiking. Coincident my MP3 playing the music and I can't hold myself to do not think about my friends not with me at this moment