Day 16: Skaftafell to Kirkjubæjarklaustur

We enjoyed sleeping in the tent. I didn't freeze and Lars slept without a shirt. He is never freezing.

We get up at eight, have breakfast, shower and decide to go for a hike before packing our stuff. We do a short walk to Skaftafelljökul. We have never done this is the past. The last time we tried but my walking boots failed me by disintegrating.
While we started with a T-shirt, we put on the fleece jacket shortly after we started, followed by the jacket as it was getting quite cold. it is 9° Celsius with some wind. The glacier ist nice, but that's about it.

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Back at the tent we pack our stuff an head for Kirkjubæjarklaustur. We won't make it without a charge in between so we stop at a very fance hotel where they even offered us free coffee. Very nice!

We stay in Kirkjubæjarklaustur and camp again. We set up our tent and charge the Twizy. There is a restaurant and we decide to geht some decent food. It's just money.

Thanks to Justin Bieber, who shot a music video in 2015, the following hype about the location and the temporary closing of the area in mid 2019, I read about it and thought that it would be nice to see Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon. We visit it and where really excited. We have missed this on our past visits to Iceland. The road was unpaved and the Twizy had a hard time.

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They make-up the roads in Kirkjubæjarklaustur at the moment. This is an explanation why we have problems with potential windshield damage continuously on our trip. They put a thin layer of tarmac on the road and loads of gravel right afterwards. Rinse and repeat until you have enough gravel on the road. Crazy stuff.

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Roadwork in Iceland

Back in Kirkjubæjarklaustur we go swimming and enjoy hot and very hot hot-pots.