Iceland is probably one of the best places that I have visited up to now. In this amazing country you can find all kind of attraction, like volcanos, geysers, amazing waterfalls and also spectacular caves.
The latter one in particular will be the subject of this post.
The caves that we visited are inside on of the greatest glacier in Europe: VATNAJÖKULL, which is also known as 'the water glacier' and has an area of 8,100 km 2 (basically the same area of Corsica or Cyprus 😱).
The day before we took the guided visit to the caves, we decided to do a trekking and approached the glacier from above. It took us some hours, and we had also to fight against the weather. As a matter of fact, one of the most peculiar things about Iceland, is that the weather condition are unpredictable. I remember getting up one day with the Sun, and experience during the same day a strong rainfall and two blizzards.
But at the end we made it, and WOW the view in front of us was breathtaking 😍.
The day after we went directly on the glacier armed with ice crampons and axes. This time we were not alone, but decided to take a guide with us, since the glacier is very big and finding the caves is not that easy (I am not even sure if it is legal to visit it alone).
After an hour or so of walking we were finally on the glacier:
After a walk on the surface we descended in one of the caves. The amazing thing here, is that this caves are not permanent ones, but some of them are occasionally created through time by the atmospheric agents.
Moreover, if you are lucky enough and the Sun is shining, the inside of the cave becomes tinged with blue.
After the visit to the cave, we walked a little bit on the surface of the glacier and took some photos.
This was really an amazing experience and every time that I think about the things that we saw that day, I feel a little bit nostalgic. But I am sure that one day I will go back to Iceland.
Has any of you ever visited Iceland? Did you love it as much as I did?
Of course, as I said before, there are also a lot of other amazing places that we saw during our trip, and I will talk and describe them in my next post, so see you there.