{"id":476,"date":"2021-06-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2021\/07\/31\/day-5-june-27-vik-to-hofn-glaciers-diamond\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:27:36","slug":"day-5-june-27-vik-to-hofn-glaciers-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2021\/06\/27\/day-5-june-27-vik-to-hofn-glaciers-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 – June 27 – V\u00edk to H\u00f6fn \/ Glaciers \/ Diamond Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spent all morning in the pretty, lupine-surrounded campground in V\u00edk. We walked to the B\u00f3nus market to get a few more groceries, looked at the IceWear store, and had some lunch at the Lava Cafe, all in a little enclosed mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fields of lupine across the road from our campground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around 2pm we went up to the road above a red-roofed church to take our version of what\u2019s become an iconic picture of V\u00edk. There was a little cemetery there. We had a good view of the town, laid out on the flat plain next to the mountain ridge. The sea stacks off the Reynisfjara point are visible from both V\u00edk and Dyrh\u00f3laey, with the mountain ridge cutting off any views of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Town of V\u00edk with Reynisdrangar sea stacks in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shortly afterwards we resumed our drive along the Ring Road heading for a pair of glaciers, Fjalls\u00e1rl\u00f3n and J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n, that calve icebergs into small glacial lakes. We were driving across a black sand delta area at the glacier\u2019s edge and arrived first at Fjalls\u00e1rl\u00f3n around 6 pm. We stopped to take lots of photos of the glacier and icebergs. We spent about 45 min there and then headed on to J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n. At J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n we continued taking many, many photos of icebergs, birds, and glaciers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First glacier, Fjalls\u00e1rl\u00f3n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glacial lake at J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around 8:45 pm or so, we headed across the road to Diamond beach. This black sand beach is notable because as icebergs from the J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n glacier float down a channel and wash out to sea with the tides, they also wash ashore on the beach covering it with partly melted chunks of glacial ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diamond Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We left the beach a little before 10 pm, stopping for photos of Icelandic horses and swans on the way to our campground in H\u00f6fn. We arrived there about an hour later. The campground is on a hillside and was terraced to create flat areas for tents and RVs. At 11:15 pm we were still taking photos – this time of a strange sunset sky that gave really strange exposures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent all morning in the pretty, lupine-surrounded campground in V\u00edk. We walked to the B\u00f3nus market to get a few more groceries, looked at the IceWear store, and had some lunch at the Lava … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iceland2021","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}