Snæfellsnes Peninsula

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We started this day with high hopes of hiking to see the Glymur waterfall, Iceland’s second tallest waterfall. But since we didn’t end up going to be until past 2am the night before/morning of because we were watching the northern lights we were pretty tired…and decided to sleep in.

We started the day at Braud & Co. with some pastries and then headed out the peninsula. Its about a two and half hour drive to get out there and on the drive I literally couldn’t keep my eyes open! Thank goodness I was not the driver for the trip. We made it to Kirkjufell and Kirkjufellsfoss and snapped our pictures. There is not a lot of parking here so you may need to pull a few u-turns before parking, we did.

Drive to  Snæfellsnes Peninsula 

Kirkjufell and Kirkjufellsfoss

We continued driving along the coast through Snæfellsjökull National Park and parked at Djúpalónssandur Beach where we did some walking around and wave watching.

Snæfellsjökull National Park

Then we made our way around the peninsula to Gatklettur and Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss Statue. It’s a long the coast with some pretty rock formations. After looking at the map again it looks like we missed some other cool rock formations off the coast. Nuts! Next time. 

 And the last thing I wanted to see on this peninsula was a “petite church in a picturesque locale” known as Búðakirkja. Its described on Google as a, “Tiny wooden church dating back to the 19th century in a scenic natural area with a lava field.” It’s a cute little church and it really is picturesque.

Búðakirkja

We made the long drive back to Reykjavik, changed and went out for some food. We didn’t really want to wait to get our food so we want to a place close by called Roadhouse Reykjavik. It was a burger joint that served you your food in record time. Seriously, they were frozen burger patties that were flavored up with extras to make them good. I thought it was just okay but after a long day anything would have been good.

You can click here to hear the pronunciation of Snæfellsnes.