{"id":2441,"date":"2025-04-06T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:12:55","slug":"iceland-day-7-east-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2025\/04\/06\/iceland-day-7-east-iceland\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"Iceland day 7 – East Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning we drove out to Stu\u00f0lagil Canyon. It was a nice drive and we were actually able to drive w\/ the window down for the first time this whole trip since it was warmer today than it has been (49 degrees today!). It was a 1.5 mile hike from the parking lot, and after walking a bit, we came upon a frozen waterfall tumbling down over a cliff face made of rectangular basalt columns. This looked like something out of one of those movies where the world freezes over. I dunno, maybe this is more common than I think, but I’ve never seen a giant frozen waterfall before and it kind of blew my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kept walking and eventually came to the canyon itself. It was a beautiful canyon with turquoise water and basalt columns on both sides. Super unique looking. I really wanted to climb down into the canyon, but a lot of the ground was covered in snow, and much of that had frozen over, making it very slippery and icy. After searching a bit, we found a spot where we could kind of scamper down part way, and then a very icy downhill part that we were able to essentially slide down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was really picturesque down inside the canyon by the water, and we hung out for a bit, but then we were in a bit of a predicament. How do we get out of this canyon now? The icy part that we had slid down was way too slippery to climb back up. The rest of the canyon walls were mayyyybe climbable, but looked pretty sketchy. There had been two people inside the canyon when we had come down, and they had made it out by climbing, but we really didn’t want to attempt it. Luckily, someone was just climbing down into the canyon, and had an idea. He grabbed a massive rock and repeatedly smashed into the ice slide every 4 feet or so. We were then able to use those divots in the ice as footsteps since they were less slippery than the rest of the ground. Nice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the drive back, we spotted some horses really close to the road and went over to take some photos of them. They were super friendly and Lucy got to pet them for a while. They clearly were hoping that we’d have some food for them, but sadly, we had nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, we drove out towards this town called Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur which is on the eastern coast of Iceland. To get there, we had to drive over the mountains and up there it was snow as far as the eye can see. Eventually we started descending, and we could see this small village stretching along the water below. Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is a super cute town. Pretty tiny, just a handful of streets and some houses scattered around. There’s maybe like two restaurants in the entire town. We drove up to one and they said they weren’t open yet. When we asked when they were gonna be open, she said not until May, lol. In a lot of these small towns here, restaurants and shops shut down when it’s not the high season, so there was literally like nothing going on in this town. The only “attraction” in town is this rainbow brick road that leads to the town church. It’s definitely more of a hang out and take in the scenery place than a place where you actually do stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After driving back to Egilsstadir, we took our flight back to Reykjavik for the last bit of our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This morning we drove out to Stu\u00f0lagil Canyon. It was a nice drive and we were actually able to drive w\/ the window down for the first time this whole trip since it was warmer today than it has been (49 degrees today!). It was a 1.5 mile hike from the parking lot, and after … Continue reading “Iceland day 7 – East Iceland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}