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This is the old one-lane tunnel, built in 1967, that connects Siglufjördur with Olafsfjördur along highway 76 on the Tröllaskagi peninsula in North Iceland. The crossing is definitely NOT for the faint hearted with about 7 kilometres of SINGLE LANE traffic and passing points every now and then to dodge oncoming traffic :p
Eyjafjörður / Norðurland eystra / Iceland
Album of Iceland: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157710594...
Hólar es un pequeño poblado en el norte de Islandia. En el pasado fue el centro religioso, cultural y educativo, del norte del país. En 2011 cuenta apenas con 89 habitantes y pertenece al municipio de Skagafjörður.
Pese a su escasa población, es sede de una catedral y de un colegio universitario, lo que reivindica la importancia histórica de la localidad. Hólar es también un sitio de investigaciones arqueológicas. En Hólar estuvo la primera imprenta de Islandia desde 1530. En 1882 se fundó en la localidad el Colegio de Agricultura de Hólar.
Se localiza en el valle conocido como Hjaltadal, un valle glaciar con forma de U, a 379 km de Reikiavik, en la zona oeste de la península de Tröllaskagi. Ver en grande
Öxnadalur (Cattle Valley) is a 25 km long valley in N-Iceland. The view here is from Mt. Seldalsfjall, looking east.
Siglufjordur is a town of about 1300 people, located it North Iceland. It is the northernmost town of the mainland.
We drove on a side road just before arriving to the town of Dalvík. It was marked with one of those blue road signs for "interesting place", but instead, we were faced with... a landfill! There were actually lots of beautiful flowers there - it looked like a flower shop among debris.
Thinking that the people in Dalvík must be a little 'funny' we were ready go go. But no... the place has a particular beauty, and this is one of the shots taken in the longest stop we had during that photo trip.
You know...? There is a street in Dalvík called Martröð. It means Nightmare. These people in Dalvík... I think they are indeed a little 'funny' :)
Siglufjordur, or Siglo as it is also known, is a small fishing village in the north of Iceland where time seems to have stood still. The colourful tin-framed wooden houses fill the historic centre of Siglufjordur with unparalleled charm and make it one of the most special places on the Trollaskagi Peninsula
Tröllaskagi is a peninsula in northern Iceland between the fjords of Eyjafjörður and Skagafjörður. The peninsula is mountainous with several peaks reaching over 1000 meters above sea level, the tallest is Kerling (1538 m). It is the part of Iceland with the highest elevation outside the central highlands.
The peninsula is cut by several deep valleys that were carved by glaciers during the glacial periods of the last Ice age and later by the rivers that now flow down those valleys. A few permanent glacier ice caps still exist in central Tröllaskagi but they are all rather small.
(Wikipedia)