The geothermal site in the mountains of Kerlingarfjöll has been on my wish list for a visit for a long time. I really wanted to hike the landscape there. It is special, after all, that you first descend from the high car park into the steaming river valley and then hike up various stairs from the area again. The hiking trails always lead along the ridges of the rhyolite mountains, from which you can look down on the other flank or into the valley.
Here I had hiked a little out of the center on one of these paths. As I turned around, the sun came out and illuminated the northern flank of the valley next to me. The central area, where all the hiking trails come together, is in the middle of the picture. You can clearly see the walkway and the bridge over one of the rivers there and far above on the right side the car park.
This is how I had always dreamed of the atmosphere in Kerlingarfjöll. Steam from the geothermal springs drifts through the valleys, the flanks of the mountains glow yellow/red in the sunlight and in between you can see other hikers as small figures in this magnificent landscape.
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