Day 9 - The Glacier Walk & More Pristine Beauty

After breakfast this morning, we’ll witness the breathtaking landscape of South Iceland firsthand—the river gorges, the farmland, and the waterfalls.

We'll enjoy an included glacier walk, donning special shoes to stroll across the Solheimajokull glacier with an expert local guide. Afterwards, we’ll journey to the south coast and enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. We’ll go off-road driving for an included Super Jeep Tour, introducing you to the black beaches. Our next stop is the wispy Seljalandsfoss (the word foss means “waterfall” in Icelandic). Located near the Seljalands farm, this picturesque waterfall drops about 200 feet over the rocky cliffs country’s southern coastline. We’ll also have views of the Markafljot River, a glacial river sunk into a canyon that in some spots sinks to depths of 180 meters (590 feet).

Cramp-ons on, ice axes in hand... ready to attack the glacier.

He just had to take this call, on a remote glacier, in Iceland. You gotta love it!

The Intrepid Adventurers

While others looked on, some in shorts and sandals.

Then on to a hard earned lunch where we were greeted by an accordian player. And then on a Jeep tour to a mountain top, and to a black sand beach. There's also columnar basalt on the black sand beach, which we would also see in a week's time on the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

From Wikipedia: During the cooling of a thick lava flow, contractional joints or fractures form. If a flow cools relatively rapidly, significant contraction forces build up. While a flow can shrink in the vertical dimension without fracturing, it can't easily accommodate shrinking in the horizontal direction unless cracks form; the extensive fracture network that develops results in the formation of columns.

The black sand that gives these beaches their name.

After some 4-wheeling, we took in the view from on high on this windswept mountain top.

Then off to see another magnificent waterfall...