Day of Getting Lost

Our third day in Iceland was rather frustrating. It was spent getting lost because of our GPS, but every negative has a silver lining and we found it. Mostly.

We began our day driving back to Skaftafell National Park through the snow and taking a nice hike to Svartifoss. Mom and I had to get up extremely early to catch up from not seeing it the day before. It was gorgeous, of course and I'm glad we took the time to go back and see it.



Our hike finished up just in time because it started snowing! We headed over to Jokulsarlon Lagoon (second bucket list completion!), making it just in time to grab a cup of coffee and be off on our lagoon boat ride. It's impossible to take a bad picture of this wonderful place.



Next up, the eastern fjords of Iceland. This is where things got really frustrating. Our GPS got us incredibly lost and kept telling us to go the wrong way. However, we saw beautiful views of the coastline.



We stopped at several villages looking for gas and food (which our GPS told us there would be). It was hard to find something open and that didn't serve pastries. The towns were cute but weren't necessary to go in to since almost everything was closed anyways.



After finding food, we made our way to our hotel. Or so we thought. I plugged in our hotel's address and was taken 30 minutes in the wrong direction. Finally we gave up and stopped using the GPS all together and used our trusty map instead. We got to our hotel and hunkered down for the night.



Even though this day was filled with frustration, we actually saw a lot of gorgeous sites. Traveling around the eastern fjords and coastlines is something magical to behold and after ignoring the GPS, we made our way up a mountain and crossed it to get to our next town. It was truly amazing. Pictures do not do it justice.