Road tripping through Westfjords, the most beautiful region of Iceland | Best places to visit
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- We embarked on a road trip through Westfjords, Iceland and we were completely blown away by the charm and beauty of its majestic fjords, soaring mountains, teeming wildlife, and bright blue sea. This remote corner of Iceland will definitely surprise and amaze you!
Places we visited in Westfjords are:
-Drangsnes hot pools, a modest yet very inviting small pools by the sea with natural warm water at three different temperatures
-Valagil waterfall, a tall waterfall nestled in a narrow canyon in a wide lush green valley
-Dynjandi, a ridiculously picturesque waterfall, the crown jewel of Westfjords and definitely one of the most beautiful in the whole of Iceland
-Hvítanes, a small settlement (more like a farm) by the sea where a colony of seals reside
-Látrabjarg, a massive sea cliff jutting at the westernmost point of Iceland, home to millions of sea birds, including countless of puffins
-Ísafjörđur, the largest town in Westfjords, an ideal base to explore the area
-Latrar air station, a cold war era radio station, presently used by the Icelandic coast guard, and the surrounding area provides amazing view points
-Garđar BA 64 shipwreck, the oddly photogenic wreckage of the oldest steel ship in Iceland
-Rauđisandur, or red sand beach, a popular wide open beach area whose sand has a reddish hue
Hopefully this could inspire you to visit Westfjords during your Icelandic road trip. For more detailed and complete report (incl. tips) of our journey, visit our travel blog 😀 (onebackpackeach.com)
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This was such a fun video! We're heading to the Westfjords in a few days from now. Thanks for the tips =)
You are welcome 😀😀 It must be really beautiful now in Iceland with the snow and possibility of northern light. Stay safe though, especially with the driving on the snowy road. 😁😁
Love the seal part HAHA
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As I said before, those blue skies keep following you...even in the West Fjords of Iceland, of all places.😄👍
Hahaha... that's true. We were really lucky with the weather. We only got 1 stormy day and 1 (or even half) rainny day in our 3 weeks trip. 😁😁 are you going to Iceland soon?
Lovely video....
Thank you 😀😀😀
Love the intro ❤🙏
😍😍 Thank you
A natural beauty indeed! Love this video 😍
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Hello from Barcelona, spain. Nice video, i enyoied so much. Iceland its on My top list. I hope This summer come true My dream. See you in the next videos👏👏👏
Hi Jordi, it's nice to meet you. Wow, Barcelona... Beautiful place. We were there some years ago. We had our 1st paella there 😀😀 Let's hope the situation gets better and you can visit Iceland soon. Cz we have witnessed the beauty of Iceland in the summer. 😁 Thanks for visiting our channel and watching our videos. 😀😀 See you in the next videos 😀😀
Ohhh... btw, in case you haven't noticed, in the description box there are some tips/information of the places that you see in the video. It might be useful to plan your trip and make your dream come true😁😁😁 In case you need some more information, just reach us, we might have some info that can be useful for you 😀😀😀
Thank you so much, you are very kind👏👏👏
😀😀 Good luck 😀
Hello from Milan, Italy. What an amazing video! It'is helping me so much to organize my roadtrip to westfjords next summer. Please could you tell me in which order you visited the attractions (e.g Day 1, Day 2...) and where did you stop for the nignts? Thank you so much for helping me!! Gianluca
Hello there Gianluca. Thanks for watching and glad it could be of help! We spent 3 days in total. The first day we went to Drangsnes hot pool, valagil waterfall, until Isafjordur. The second day to the latrar air base, dynjandi, and the gardar shipwreck. Last day we continued to latrabjarg and red sand beach.
We camped for the 3 days, but sorry I could not recall anymore exactly where we camped. I guess the best way is to google all the available camp sites and see which one is closest at the end of the day. The camp sites usually will always accommodate you 🙂
I hope this helps.
Really thank you so much for your indications!! Hope to fino a so wonderful weather as in your video!😊
Glad to be able to help and wish you guys a great trip there! 😃
Very nice video. What month of the year were you there?
Early July 2020 😀😀
hey, u seem to be lucky to spot puffins, I know some people went to same places and zero. What time did u end up visiting there and what month? thanks a lot
Hey2, we visited sometime in the afternoon (around 4pm at Borgarfjordur and 12pm at Latrabjarg), late june and early july, respectively. They should be there during those months 😀
Heading out there next month! Always sunny in the Westfjords? :)
Hmmm.. That's a difficult question 😅😅 I think we were lucky with the weather. The weather in Iceland can change really fast, so it's kind a hard to predict. What we did was to check the forecast the day before. Anything more 24 hours is not reliable 😁😅
When visiting Dynjandi were you driving on the dirt road for long? I want to visit this waterfall but am afraid of dirt roads. Are there gas stations out in the WestFiords?
Hey2.. yes, unfortunately (in 2020) we had to drive through some stretch of dirt road, but it was not that long and the condition was not that bad in the sense that there were not as many gravels as on some other more treacherous dirt roads in Iceland 😅 you'll be fine driving to Dynjandi 😀
And yes, although sparse, there are gas stations in Westfjords.. and the main city Isafjordur is quite populated, so no worries 😉😉
@@Onebackpackeach ok. Thank you for this information. It really helps.
You are most welcome. Wish you have a pleasant trip. Dynjandi ia absolutely beautiful and stunning. 😀
Awesome video! How long time it’s required to visit the westfjords?
Thank you for visiting our channel and watching our video 😀😀😀 We visit all the places you have seen in this Westfjord video in 3 days, by car. However, depending on your preference it might take longer. When we were there, we met a couple that stay in Westfjord for 3 weeks... 😀😀
Beautiful roadtrip. How many days did you spend in Westfjords?
Thank you for visiting our channel 😀 We stayed in Westfjords for 3 days...😀😀