Travel Notes. Part 48: Reykjanes. Along the Shoreline

Yuri Loginov’s travel notes accompanied by photographs and video fragments made here and there once upon a time with amazing background classic music to remember forever. Part 48: Reykjanes. Along the Shoreline... or, On the roads of Iceland again. The #Reykjanes Peninsula (Icelandic for “Cape of Smokes“) in the southwest of #Iceland has the shape of a boot and goes towards the Atlantic Ocean. It is covered with hardened lava with rare vegetation and characterized by active volcanic activity, since the line of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge passes through the peninsula and all of Iceland. This trip started in Reykjavik towards Kleivarvatn, the largest lake in the southwest. Its maximum depth ranges from 97 to 107 meters. Not a single river flows into or out of the lake. However, there are many fish such as brown trout and arctic char. Further, passing through the southern town of Grindavik, we visited the rocky coast at the very tip of the peninsula, 68 kilometres from Reykjavik. Here are located the Gunnuhver geothermal springs, which are named after a female ghost who sunk in a boiling tank 400 years ago. From water, the temperature of which is more than 100 degrees, steam is released, which condenses and mixes with surface waters. Carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide convert water to acid. This causes the transformation of fresh lava into red clay, giving the landscape a bizarre Martian look. The famous Reykjanes lighthouse, 31 meters high, built in 1929 rises nearby. At the lighthouse we underwent a powerful bombardment of local birds, the squadrons of which relentlessly pursued us all the time while we were near their nests. We then proceeded to the fault separating the Eurasian and North American continental plates, which are slowly drifting in opposite directions. In this very place in Reykjanes, a 20-meter bridge “between the continents“ is thrown across the fault, which formally allows you to get from Europe to America on foot, of course, in a geographical sense only. Then we ended up in the town of Keflavik, where we visited the cave of a local authority - a giant troll. After that drove into the airport, the air gate of the island, and triumphantly returned with a breeze to #Reykjavik, having fun driving finally along its central historical part. Watch the previous video about Iceland on The original photos are laid out on @yuri-loginov-107391.