After a brief flight to Höfn, we checked into our hotel and had (another) breakfast before setting off on our first 6.5 mi hike around the abandoned farm houses of Horn.
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Packing lunches next to our bus before our first hike |
Edible crowberry |
Lori psyched for her first hike |
The silhouette of the Vestrahorn mountain looked like a pregnant lady to me |
The group gathers for our first history lesson on the 19th century trading center called Papos |
Gunnar Bjorgvinsson, our guide |
Please tell me what this is! |
The pink wardrobe of Ásdís, our assistant guide, always contrasted nicely withthe grey rock and sky |
More bright pink! |
Beach rocks and fishing net float |
The sun reflects off water around a rock on a black sand beach |
Lori, Bill, and Dan (our resident photographer) at lunch |
The distintive spires of the Brunnhorn |
Cotton flower |
Gunnar makes a wick with the cotton flower |
Ruins of the British occupation from WWII |
Gunnar hikes across a boggy meadow |
Please tell me what this is! |
Norse ruins |
We weren't quite sure what to make of this abandoned farmhouse |
Ah! It's an old movie set for a movie about Vikings |
The plaster of Paris has seen better days |
What seems like a good recreation of a driftwood and
grass hut |
The set from the other side |
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