Lake Mývatn & Surroundings - 4th August 2003

Lake Mývatn & Surroundings, 36/41: The tent on our grassy outcrop - 1

We managed quite a distance that evening - basically back to about where we had started the day at Berunes, before finding a lovely spot alongside the road to camp. In Iceland you are allowed to camp anywhere you like, provided the land is not owned by anyone, and it's not a national park. It was around midnight when we finally found somewhere, although it was still plenty light enough to pitch the tent without too much of a problem. Our little campsite had a lovely stream nearby, that served as our fridge for the night, and excellent soft ground too which given that we were about three quaters of the way up a mountain at the time and the landscape generally was strewn with rocks we were pretty happy about.

Here are a few pictures of our campsite and the views around it, taken in the morning...

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