If you take a small detour off road 54 you end up in the most magical place. Here are some photos to get started with.....
The lava is pretty new as you can see from a google earth image (just type in Berserkjahraun) and the cones are lovely and fresh too! The beautiful red plants are the ever present blue berries, which were a bit over their prime by this time (i was there in October).
Hraun bitar are very tasty little choclatey-coconutty-biscuity things. more on them later, but i translate them as LAVA BITES and they are yuuuummmmyyy.
It looks like i got the horizon wrong here but i didn't, it's just the weird lay of the land. The colours are what is really important of course.
The vegetation crawls up the slopes and looks like flames.
I was there on a typical overcast day, and sadly right in the middle of the day as it takes a couple of hours from reykjavik to get there, and of course there are too many wonderful things to see on the way.......so the light was not great and the sky was as flat a grey as could be and i recon it was a toasty 5 degrees............this is the road that you drive around on and my little hire car was just fine.
i'm going back - anyone wanna join me?
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