Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
HERÐUBREIÐ
Highlights
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Herðubreið
This ice-capped “Queen of
Icelandic Mountains” forms an isolated,
flat-topped platform rising above the middle of
a black gravel desert.
See p.313
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Askja
Massive caldera rimmed by rough,
snowy peaks, where you can swim in a crater
flooded with lukewarm water, the remnants of
a colossal eruption in 1875.
See p.313
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Kverkfjöll
Extremely remote and
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cult-to-reach ice caves, hollowed out by
hot springs welling up under the
northwestern edge of the mighty Vatnajökull
ice cap.
See p.314
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Sprengisandur
The classic Interior trip,
across an unremittingly bleak and barren desert
stretching to a horizon tipped with ice caps. Not
surprisingly, outlaws were once banished here.
See p.309
2
Kjölur
Unusually for a road across Iceland's
hostile Interior, in summer you can generally
tackle this rough, stony track in a conventional
car.
See p.310
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Hveravellir
This steam vent provides an
unexpected splash of green and a bathable hot
spring in the middle of the wilderness, and is a
great place to break an Interior traverse.
See p.312
HIGHLIGHTS ARE MARKED ON THE MAP ON P.308
