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As soon as possible, our third day was a joyful surprise for us. Nearly cloudless skies, sunshine and therefore even slightly positive temperatures. We were only able to do this well, because we wanted to climb the largest glacier in Europe – Vatnajökull – with an area of 8,100 km² over Skaftafell.
Due to the nice weather, this time we also had some great photospots and so we spied on one of the tours to the glacier. Once again, we were wondering how many people are already traveling in Iceland at this time of the year. We had indeed (foolishly) assumed that we were the only ones to do this weather. Therefore, we could only get one of the small 3-hour glacier tours, everything else was already booked. We felt more and more the feeling with the early Reisetermin to have made a correct wise decision.
In any case, we climbed into the glacier together with our Belgian leader and a large Indian family. In addition to hiking on 60-100m deep ice is actually not really special, but definitely a cool alternative to constant waterfall looking and moreover also compared to other countries quite affordable.
Back at the starting point of the tour, we struck a bit on our own through the tangle of hiking trails in the national park until we finally met a waterfall. There were a lot of phototourists waiting for us, but it was nice. We did not want to imagine what hordes of people would be in the high season at this waterfall …
The evening had an Icelandic character for us. We could not continue on our way, because otherwise we would have been through a sandstorm with wind speeds of up to 40 m / s. That is why we camped on the closed campsite right at the foot of the glacier. Actually a great change (and completely free), but especially the dinner outside was cold and the night with -3 ° C also not much better. But we did not want it otherwise and after a warm coffee in the morning we went on to the island in the east fjords …