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This photograph was taken during our holidays in Iceland in February this year. We stayed in a lodge, like the one seen on the right of the photograph, that was adjacent to a farm house near Vik.
The sun was setting, and illuminated the sky and clouds above the buildings, with snow covering the roof tops and the grounds.
The Vík i Myrdal Church on the South Coast in Vík, Iceland. It's located on the Ring Road. #Iceland #Vík #SouthCoast #VíkiMyrdalChurch #church
View to the East. Vik is a pleasant village on the South Coast of Iceland. In normal times, it's overrun by tourists doing the Icelandic circle.
I took this photo at the top of an access road above the red roofed church. it was a challenge to omit all of the people and busses that kept pulling into the church parking lot. The Village below is Vik, Iceland.
The village of Vik is the most southerly village in Iceland. Vík lies directly south of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which itself is on top of the Katla volcano..
An eruption of Katla could melt enough ice to trigger an enormous flash flood, potentially large enough to obliterate the entire town. The church, located high on a hill, is believed to be the only building that would survive such a flood and would be a place of safety in such an event.
Offshore lies Reynisdrangar, stacks of basalt rock, remnants of a once more extensive cliffline Reynisfjall, now battered by the sea. The sea around them is wild and stormy.
Vík í Mýrdal è una località islandese lungo la Hringvegur nella regione di Suðurland.
E' il villaggio più meridionale dell'Islanda.
The 17th day brought me from Flam to Vik! A very busy day with even more very changeable weather. Rain, dark and grey in the morning, then when arriving at Stalheim suddenly clearing skies (pics later), and after that threatening skies again. Soon after I had arrived in Vik, and had put up my tent it started to rain heavily, clearing up again to give me this landscape around blue hour. What I didn't realize then was that the good days were finally over, from this day on the weather was very unstable, and forced me to look different at my surroundings to see other sorts of beauty!
It is my favourite fjord btw Sognefjord, vast/immense and great sightings! Enjoy!
Lovely valleys, bare mountains and cold winds, snow packs, glaciers, beautiful lakes, and then there are the enchanting fjords that never stop to amaze. The most beautiful country of Europe, for me no doubt about that, with only one minor aspect, which is the weather. During my month of traveling I only had 4 really nice days, the rest of the time clouds, rain, and very changeable! Still no regret, and I will go back to make even more than the 3500 pictures that I took this time.
Another very active vacation that took me to the south west up to Trondheim in a sort of triangle between Oslo- Trondheim and Bergen with the whole route visible here (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153668247101759&set...).
Dyrhólaey, formerly known by seamen as Cape Portland, is a small promontory located on the south coast of Iceland, not far from the village Vík. It was formerly an island of volcanic origin, which is also known by the Icelandic word eyja meaning island. The volcano erupted about 100 thousand years ago during the Pleistocene. The peninsula has an elevation of 120 metres, and the Dyrhólaey Lighthouse sits at the top of the formation facing the sea.
The view from Dyrhólaey is broad: To the north is to be seen the big glacier Mýrdalsjökull. To the east, the black lava columns of the Reynisdrangar come out of the sea, and to the west the whole coastline in the direction of Selfoss is visible – depending on weather conditions. In front of the peninsula, there is a gigantic black arch of lava standing in the sea, which gave the peninsula its name.
In the summertime, many Atlantic puffins can be found nesting on the cliff faces of Dyrhólaey.
El imponente acantilado de Rynissfjall reúne estas formaciones rocosas de mas de 66 metros sobre la superficie del mar,dice la mitologia islandesa que son tres gigantescos trolls que se transformaron en piedra cuando fueron iluminados por la luz del día.Vik se encuentra en la parte mas meridional de islandia.
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