Again wonderfully relaxing sleep, and off to the 1 ring street. Goðafoss, right next to the ring street, proved to be a gorgeous waterfall to take photos of. So much snow everywhere, almost no clouds and around 0 centrigrades - awesome day, awesome Easter Sunday.
Next stop was Hverfjall, a 1 km big crate next to a smaller one, 2500 years old. We climbed up, and I left the prescribed trail to walk to the bottom of the crate. Next to the crate was all kind of wonderful landscape, frozen lakes (Mývatn), lava fields of different types, and cloud-white mountains in different shapes, almost no clouds. Iceland at its best.
We headed down to drive back the snowy gravel road which has lead us from the ring street to the bottom of the crate. After a few meters, we got stuck. Right in the fairway, axis buried in snow. So we called 112, for the first time in my life. After not even 20 minutes, a quad driver came to help us, additionally two drivers in a large heavy car. The quad guy managed to move the car backwards, with the three of us pushing back, and afterwards drive through the most difficult passage, this time not in the fairway. We took back the car, and we convoyed back to the ring street. So much help for no money or not even them staying to let us thank them. Honestly, I am impressed by the willingness to help by the Icelandic people.
We had planed before the trip to stay the night in Ytra Lon, a rather remote place to get to, far in the north-east. Due to the snowy conditions, we didn't want to risk it and changed our place for the night for a guest house west of Mývatn, quite close to the Guðafoss, in Laugur. This also had the advantage that we could see Mývatn which we would have missed otherwise.
The rest of the day until 2am is summed up quite easily in three expressions:
Hot tub
Aurora Borealis
Awesome
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