Hi all,

Since I promissed to post more pictures from my trip to Iceland, yet another blog (in less than a week!):

on our way to the Ósar Youth Hostel: there was this strange cloud (the white fluffy stripe in the middle of the picture) covering a part of the mountains

near the Ósar Youth Hostel

Icelandic horses in the mist

Leirhnjúkur in the Krafla area: Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn (=Mosquito Lake) region...in the picture you can see another example of geothermal activity...

Mývatn:The lake was created by a large basaltic lava eruption 2300 years ago, and the surrounding landscape is dominated by volcanic landforms, including lava pillars and pseudocraters...

Jökulsárlón with some arctic terns (again)

Djúpivogur: this is a small fishing village in the east fjords of Iceland...one day I want to live in such a house

Stöðvarfjörður: another small village in the east fjords...in this picture you can see the little church; while I was in Iceland the wild lupins seemed to bloom everywhere...

view on Stöðvarfjörður...this time with buttercups.

Herdubreið (= large shoulders): this is Iceland's most famous table mountain

Núpsstaður: the little turf church dates back to the 17th century

the canyon near Dettifoss

Dettifoss (foss = waterfall): this is the most powerfull waterfall of Europe

Landmannalaugar (people's pool) as seen from the top of the Bláhnúkur (= Blue Mountain)

The Strokkur geysir just before he's about to erupt...

The Strokkur geysir after the eruption

Cotton grass

Boats on Laugarvatn

Sólfar aka The Sun Voyager (Reykjavík)

I still have to upload a considerable amount of pictures (on flickr there's a monthly upload limit) but I'll try to regularly post some shots...

until then, take care!

elke xxx