As we near another highly anticipated stop, in northeast Iceland, we reach Hvammstangi, the most densely populated area in Hunaphing, with about 580 inhabitants.
Hvammstangi is an important service provider for the area, specially education and trading. Tourism, administration and fishing industries (providing mainly shrimp) are important parts of the town's economy. Interestingly, Hvammstangi owns Iceland's largest textile factory, let's see if we can find it here.
Telling the story of the city's businesses and development, which dates back to 1856, Trade Museum Bardusa, in the city center next to the harbor, was the first place we stopped after we arrived.
After learning about the town, but not much about the textile factories we where looking for, we went to the Icelandic Seal Center, which we learned serves as an information booth in the city, and stayed for the information about seals.
The building, aside from serving as an information booth, also directs visitors to nature and seal watching and sea angling trips.
Hvammstangi is well-known for it's support for camping and camping culture, providing many rewarding views, so we decided to venture out and go camping ourselves.
As a habit, we repeated our list of places to visit before sleeping: - (Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Brazil (x5)) -
After a was-to-be-hard night, (thankfully we had our mages with their pyromancies ready for this occasion) we went nature-hunting, for 4 structures in particular, which hopefully wont take too long to find; Ánaðastapi, Hvitserkur, Stapar and the local fjörd; Midfjördur, which can be seen from the local restaurant: Sjavarbog
The first one we found was the Fjord, by chance, looking through the windows at Sjavarborg restaurant, presumably the best in the region.
Our hike has earned us many amazing views, definitely worth all the trouble.
Despite having to actually swim across masses of water to get here, we are still satisfied to get to know Ánaðastapi in person!
Still exploring in Vatnsnes Peninsula, over 3 km(1.86 mi) away from Hvammstangi by sea through Midfjördur, we sighted Hvitserkur, a 15 m/49 ft tall rock formation. At this point we were already dry from the swimming, and it was getting dark, so we decided to stay for the high chances to witness the Northern Lights, (which is very common in Iceland) and we got very lucky! what an awesome sight.
Our last report is from Vatnsnes Peninsula as a whole, of which we have seen very little of. Our nature-hunting here finished in walking across green lands, where we saw the local wild life and vegetation (weirdly, in all of our exploration we saw very little to no trees) and also visited an important event location, the farm "Hamarsbúð" where the traditional Icelandic Food Festival, “Fjöruhlaðborð” (Fun buffet), is celebrated every year. We also found horse and cattle pens and old abandoned farms.
 |
| Time to go "Ice fjord deep" in Iceland |
No comments:
Post a Comment