We left Hofn the next morning after meeting the breakfast cop. in this hostel you pay in advance and get some note. in breakfast, the employee watches over us like a hawk in case we don't steal the cereal or the milk. we were asked 3 times if we had paid for breakfast, there is a sign not to make sandwiches to go. after this irregular Icelandic experience we started going north along the eastern coast of Iceland and its fjords.
I have seen fjords in new Zealand and Norway an was looking forward, but here they were no as impressive, the hills next to them are not as high or as green as Norway's fjords but the big problem is the water, they are boring grey. i blame the clouds!!! all bodies of water in Iceland are grayish, shame. we drove along the fjords, stopping in several small towns.
in one place we stopped at this artist home, the giants bones of a fish were a good indication of an interesting place. the guy makes statues out of fish bone, honestly, most of the work is not great in my opinion, but he tells us stories of the purpose of the hill above (where they would wait for the fisherman to return) and the current state of ocean pollution (bad, very bad...). i felt i need to buy something, so i got a bird made of fish bone, a small one, unfortunately i forgot it in the car.....
the best thing about this store (that was situated next to the small watching hill, was a cute sheep dog (there are no sheep here, only ship), that asks you right away to play ball with him and he leads you slowly up the hill, very bored and friendly dog.
this town (Djúpivogur) has egg statues, many of various sizes, so i took a few shots with them but they didn't hatch.
the 1st part of the day continued in driving through lush vallies till we hit the hiking part of the day. we stopped at a little hotel in Hallormsstadaskoli and split 3 ways. Moti and Amit went to a peak, i went with my mom to a forest hike and shay was resting. out hike went up and down the forest with some nice flowers and occasional views of the lake below. this lake similar to Loch ness has a mystery beast leaving in it. the local says that if the child misbehaves , the take them to the lake and make them spell the name of this monster!! (Lagarfljótsormurinn) scary.
we did a 5.5 k hike while Amit/moti did a slightly shorter hike, but up the hill, per the guide book, our hike is faster, when we came back to the start hotel, they were there for a while after spending 10 minutes looking for the starting point, they hike at a fast pace. this hotel had a cafe with a very welcome hot chocolate. it was not yet 5 so we went to another hike, this one to the 3rd tallest water fall in Iceland (Litlanesfoss). again we hiked a steep trail along the edge of the canyon. this trail was also misleading, we reached a pretty water fall only to find out that the real one is further away. both falls look in similar height to me and both had those hexagon rocks all around. at the very end part of the trail is really on the edge of a small cliff and i took great care walking that part, we crossed the river and reached the end, but on the cross back, i nearly dropped the camera in to the water (yes, i still owe you some photos). this hike was also around 5k , so not a bad hiking day.
after passing a beautiful rainbow , emerging from the lake, we stopped at Fljótsdalshérað and randomly chose for dinner a place that looked like a restaurant. it was kind of a fast food place. some had burgers, ice cream, I had my hot dog. it was late, and we had a different place for dinner, we drove east towards Seydisfjordur, a small town by a fjord, we passed a snow patchy mountain pass that was very pretty in the dusk and reached the town well after dark. we had less then 12 hours , too bad , this was the nicest hostel of the trip (post hostel, they have 2 there), we took a little nightly tour of the town, this is a fishing village built by Norwegian , and many of the original houses remain, colourful wooden houses. we went to a local bar, and i ordered a hot chocolate. the bar guy took a milk chocolate from a card box box that you get in the super market,and warned it up, i was too shocked to complain!
we enjoyed a normal shower, actually one of the best I ever seen, wide room with all sort of nicknacks and 2 very wide shower head in the shower. after a long day of driving hiking and hot dogging, sleep came quickly, thus ends day 5.
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