The most amazing thing about Iceland is not the lava fields, the hot springs or the glaciers. It is the fact that there is 13,000 km of roads that will take you into this uncharted wilderness.

After spending some time at the diamond beach at Jokulsarlon, we drove to Dyrholaey taking some breaks on the way. (25 Oct 2017)

Dyrholaey is just a few kilometers away from the famous black beach at Reynisfjara.

We passed by the shallow lake which gives a mirror like reflection of surrounding mountains. 

View of Reynisfjara Beach from Dyrholaey. From the zoomed in pic, it seemed like the cave like structure could have been accessed on this day if we would have decided to go there. But, as the time was short and we still had plans to hike up the skogafoss, we skipped visiting black beach again.

 

 View of Kirkufjara beach from Dyrholaey.

One can get down at the shallow lake and walk in the shallow water. After spending some time at the shallow lake, we drove to Skogafoss waterfalls.

 It was already 3pm when we reached skogafoss. We wanted to hike at least 1-1.5 hrs on the Fimmvörðuháls Hiking Trail to get glimpses of waterfalls on the way.  Whole area was magically lit with the golden light. It was not too cold and the climb to the top of skogafoss would have anyway warmed us up a little bit. Kids were given ice cream as incentive for not complaining. 

 

As decided, we started walking back after an hour of hike and by the time we got down it was almost time for sunset. With heavy hearts and a dream of coming back again and hiking the entire trail, we started our journey back to Reykjavik. We still had a journey of 2.5 hrs to reach Reykjavik. Had seen so much on a single day, it was hard to let everything seep into the memory.