No 3 - Eldfell crater in the Westman islands

Water from the lake flowed into Hell and I can only imagine that the opaque water swung high as well! You can see photos of Holuhraun in my second travel-blog on Askja. Read more in my travel-blogs: Up in North-Iceland, you will find the major volcano Mt. This area is really colourful and worth a visit. It can get windy in Iceland so be careful while standing on the rim of the explosion crater.

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I have hiked up on the rim on a very windy day and almost flew off the rim and into the metre deep Big-Hell!! My photo below is of the geothermal area next to the explosion crater. It is strikingly colourful. Notice the two people to the left in my photo, who had wandered off from the trail to get closer to the colourful hot springs and mud pools. My heart sank when I saw them there.

Mud pools and boiling hot springs lurk hidden away just beneath the surface and it is so easy to step through the crust and straight into the boiling water or mud! They probably didn't realize that they were in such danger. They had a hard time returning to the trail, as you can see in my photo below. I zoomed in on them hoping they would be ok. The trails are there for a reason, so stay on them so nobody gets hurt. The burn wounds from such accidents are dreadful, so I hope that my warning will not go unnoticed.

We want our visitors to stay safe in Iceland. Krafla caused quite a havoc in this area back in with 9 eruptions and lava fountains up to 70 metres high, which lit up the sky! When the volcanic eruption started on the 23rd of January all the inhabitants of the island had to flee to the mainland and some houses were buried beneath the cinders or damaged by lava bombs.

The more than metres high Eldfell volcano got created in this volcanic eruption. A relatively easy, but somewhat steep hike takes you to the top where you have a fantastic view of the Westman islands. The lava is bright red and yellow and is still warm in places. The Westman islands are located just off the south shore of Iceland and can be reached by ferry or by flight. Read more in my travel-blog: Fancy hiking to the Top of Mt. Eldfell Volcano in the Westman Islands, which erupted back in ?

In this travel-blog, you will also find links to my 5 other travel-blogs of the Westman islands, for ideas on what to see during your visit. It was active some 5,, years ago. Eldborg is around metres long, metres wide and 50 metres deep. An easy 3 km hike, takes you to the roots of the crater. You can climb up to it and have a peek inside and a wonderful view of the other craters in this area, but Eldborg is a part of a ca 5-crater eruptive fissure.

The crater is better looking though from below than from above, in my opinion. The ascent up the volcano is 60 metres and rocky, but some chains have been fitted to make it easier to get to the top. You will even see a lava pen in one location, but I am going to write a special travel-blog later on about this hike and the sights on the way.

The lava gorge is wide at the beginning of the track but narrows when you hike further up the gorge. The elevation is only 50 metres so it is not a strenuous hike. You can walk around the crater and down to it, but I find the most interesting part of the hike to be the track of the lava flow and the view from it.

Do also stop on the way to enjoy the lava colours and formations inside holes in the lava walls. To reach it you can rent a car and visit it by yourself. A popular easy hike straight from ring-road 1 takes you to the top of the volcano and paths and steps have been added to make the hike easier.

This area is preserved since and the lava field is on the Natural Heritage Register. It is such a beautiful area where the landscape all of a sudden changes. No matter how many times I have driven through here I always marvel at its beauty. In the summer of , the moss in this beautiful lava field caught fire. A tourist on a bike did number 2 in the moss and lit the WC-paper, which in turn set fire to the moss which spread over sq.

Other tourists passing by thought that a volcanic eruption had started! And now this visitor to our country found out the hard way: It is an oval caldera maar which is the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption some 6, years ago. The depth of the lake has been measured ranging from metres. You can walk around the crater, which makes for a scenic walk. It is also possible to walk down to the lake itself. The admittance fee is used for maintenance of this area. It kind of looks like I have been photoshopped into this photo, doesn't it?

The name Hrossaborg means Horse Castle or Horse City, and here horses were kept in earlier times as it kind of acts like a natural pen. Here you will find many sandstone images and it is the first stop on the tour to Askja before you enter the highlands of Iceland. Here the drivers let out the air of the tires 33 psi to 15 psi to give them a wider grip for the gravel roads in the highlands. It is a bit taxing, but you can rest on a bench halfway up. On top of the volcano, you will find one of the view-dials made by my father-in-law. Such view-dials show the names of the surrounding mountains.

You will find them in many places in Iceland and I seek them out on my travels in my country. A short hike up to the crater will reveal very colourful lava - red and pink and yellow. The crater itself is not very visible, but in one spot you will notice how the lava flowed. The crater is named after the lake in the crater, which is 46 metres deep and beautifully green in colour. Crystals and hot spring algae in the lake give the lake this distinctive green colour, which varies every time I visit this explosion crater. Now, this is my take on the Icelandic craters, which I have visited on my travels in my country.

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