Sunny morning in Hornstrandir - Iceland

over 1 year ago (Edited)

Today I will show a sunny morning in Hornstrandir region, in north-west Iceland.

The day before it rained, so we enjoyed the sun!

This place is famous to be very wild, with amazing cliffs like frozen waves of land and rock.

Here a view of Horn cliffs (the most beautiful place of Hornastrandir region) from Hornik bay (Vik means bay in Icelandic language, and also in Norwegian and Swedish):

Icelandic people say that they come here when they wish to stay alone, walking in their thoughts. In fact, we met no more than ten people during six days trek. It is a place where you can stop stressed city life and reflect about yourself, about the world, or whatever you want; it is also useful to free the brain and feel only the touch and the hug of this unique primordial nature. We were in the hands of nature, no other rules.

There are many old tree trunks, consumed by sea water. You know there aren't woods in Iceland (except in some internal area, but not not indigenous ones). So the question is: from where these trunks come from? They come from Norway rivers, most of them. Norwegian people use river to transport tree trunks from woods to the sea and to the harbours, and some trunks get lost and start a long travel, and due to sea currents, they colonized seashores here in Iceland!

We slept in a camping, managed by a ranger, only one.
Around camping, an amusing wooden horse, self made:

Slowly, we began to wake up, kidnapped by the space and the games of clouds around us:

A rare house:

Some of us started to wake up the body, tired for the cold temperature (around six degrees all day long), humidity, and not good sleep (too many light: sunrise stars at around two o'clock in the short 'night', during summer).

Time to have breakfast, all cooked by ourselves. All food was inside our heavy bag (my bag was 23 Kg). About water, we drank at the river, no pollution here.