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Ice Caves disappear or become unsafe when the weather warms up, so tours stop end March. I took a 2 day tour in early March to an unnamed ice cave in Breiðamerkurjökull, a five hour bus trip from Reykjavik. This glacier (jökull) is one many originating in Vatnajökull, Iceland's largest glacier. Part of the glacier actually calves into a very deep lake which is open to the ocean. This delivers an attractive lake with icebergs (and seals) and a beach, Diamond Beach, a black-sand beach, littered with many smaller pieces of ice, also very attractive.
The reflections and refractions in the ice gave delivered an everchanging picture, move a mm and it looked quite different. Amazing blues through to black. And some wonderful textures.
And amazing textures
Icebertg Lake
Diamond Beach
Oddly, this beach near Vik was somehow selected by TripAdvisor (or some such) as one of the world's 10 best beaches!
Now clearly it gets a lot of tourists, but i cannot see it being a place to hang out! Beach clearly has a different meaning to some folks!
And yet another human sized properly beautiful waterfall! Skógafoss, see Winter Tour page for the same covered in snow!
All that and 500km each of two days! It was a long way to drive, but worth it!
In early January Siena, Dom and I took a bus trip to a man made tunnel inside the Langjökull glacier
This monster truck, formerly a soviet missile launcher!, took us high onto the glacier where we walked 500m into the glacier
When we came out the sun was setting, actually, in January, sun sets take a long time over here!
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