The second part of our Iceland journey moves through the north of the country and into the rugged Westfjords, where the road feels even more expedition-like and the landscapes become even wilder. We begin near H\u00fasav\u00edk, with an optional whale-watching start, then continue past the turf churches of Vidim\u00fdrarkirkja and Grafarkirkja, the historic farm at Glamb\u00e6r, the geothermal waters of Grettislaug, the dramatic sea stack Hv\u00edtserkur, Koluglj\u00fafur canyon, and the shoreline hot pots of Drangsnes. This is the stage where Iceland reveals its harsher northern character, rich in history, distance, and the raw rhythm of travel.<\/p>\n
From there the route dives into the Westfjords through Litlib\u00e6r, \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Dynjandi, and the hot pools of Arnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur before reaching Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, where the great climax of the expedition awaits: the total solar eclipse. After that extraordinary day, the journey continues past the Gar\u00f0ar BA64 shipwreck, geothermal stops, and across western Iceland toward Sn\u00e6fellsnes, with highlights including Ger\u00f0uberg, L\u00f3ndrangar, Dj\u00fapal\u00f3nssandur, Kirkjufellsfoss, Hraunfossar, Deildartunguhver, and Glymur. This is not merely the way back. It is the second movement of the expedition, with the eclipse at its heart and the rest of Iceland unfolding around it like a grand northern saga.<\/p>\n
At this time the route description is only available in Polish. Contact me if You would like to join me on this expedition.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second part of our Iceland journey moves through the north of the country and into the rugged Westfjords, where the road feels even more expedition-like and the landscapes become even wilder. We begin near H\u00fasav\u00edk, with an optional whale-watching start, then continue past the turf churches of Vidim\u00fdrarkirkja and Grafarkirkja, the historic farm at Glamb\u00e6r, the geothermal waters of Grettislaug, the dramatic sea stack Hv\u00edtserkur, Koluglj\u00fafur canyon, and the shoreline hot pots of Drangsnes. This is the stage where Iceland reveals its harsher northern character, rich in history, distance, and the raw rhythm of travel.<\/p>\n
From there the route dives into the Westfjords through Litlib\u00e6r, \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Dynjandi, and the hot pools of Arnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur before reaching Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, where the great climax of the expedition awaits: the total solar eclipse. After that extraordinary day, the journey continues past the Gar\u00f0ar BA64 shipwreck, geothermal stops, and across western Iceland toward Sn\u00e6fellsnes, with highlights including Ger\u00f0uberg, L\u00f3ndrangar, Dj\u00fapal\u00f3nssandur, Kirkjufellsfoss, Hraunfossar, Deildartunguhver, and Glymur. This is not merely the way back. It is the second movement of the expedition, with the eclipse at its heart and the rest of Iceland unfolding around it like a grand northern saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,429,6,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camper","category-429","category-calkowite-zacmienie-slonca","category-islandia","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5966-scaled-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22959,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions\/22959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclipses.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}