A Journey to the Center of the Earth.

On Thursday we had planned a trip to a Snæfellsjökull - glacier which is in a distance of about 190 km from Reykjavik. In sunny days you can actually see it from the city. It is one of the smallest glaciers in Iceland, but also one of the best known, because it inspired Jules Verne to write A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
On the way we stopped at some interesting sites - one of them was Eldborg - a small volcano crater. Walk from parking to the top took us about 40 min.










On the top.













Some rock structures - it's hard to believe that all of this was created by nature!


























Near a glacier.













Hellnar - we stopped there to see the cliffs on the coast.

















































There was a nice cafe on the beach.













Way to a glacier.





























We tried to go as far as we could - in the summer the cracks in the ice are opening and it becomes dangerous.





























Hmm, remember Jurassic Park? Maybe it still has a blood of some dinosaur :P













One of the cracks - they're quite deep...

























































































Glacier from various sides.


























Way back to Reykjavik.










Mars?










We made a short stop on a wish-fulfill hill. To wish become true you had to walk there without saying a word, you couldn't turn back and you had to say your wishes on the top facing east.













View from the hill.