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That’s what it felt like, anyway. Like we were the last people on earth, pioneering. Well, except for that ready-made track in front of us.
Towards Stakkholtsgjá in Þórsmörk (Thorsmork), southern Iceland.
Þórsmörk is a nature paradise situated in the south of Iceland between three glaciers: Mýrdalsjökull Glacier, Eyjafjallajökull Glacier and Tindfjallajökull Glacier. (Try and get your tongue around those names!)
There’s a certain beauty in all this emptiness, desolation. On my very first day in Iceland, when I was being driven around the countryside by my expatriated compatriot, I was struck at how eerily silent it was when we went sightseeing on foot. No chirping birds, no aural evidence that there was any other living thing. There was also a conspicuous lack of visible wildlife — there wasn’t even any roadkill!
“Where are all the animals??” I wondered out loud.
“They ate them all.”
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