It was early evening, and as always, we were up for cramming more adventure in the day. So we went to Dimmuborgir ("Dark Castle") and wandered winding paths through the kingdom of the elves. The techy explanation is "unusually shaped lava formations," but this place was seriously Gondolin.
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It's an easy walk through desert scrub, with a fantastic view of Sellandafjall Mountain in the distance. At one point, there's a barbed wire fence with a rickety ladder to help you over. Have I mentioned how much I love, love, love these Icelandic walks through wide, open spaces?
Read MoreIn this area, there are the Leirhnjukur Lava Fields (sometimes just called the Krafla Lava Fields). This part of our expedition quickly became reminiscent of that long, late-night walk to the crashed plane. We saw a sign and parked, but nowhere did the sign tell us we were about to walk roughly 8km.
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