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Lots of travel these days as we make our way out of the Westfjords and down toward Reykjavik. We stayed close to Eiríksstaðir, a museum housed on the site of the longhouse home of Erik the Red and Leif the lucky. And so we had some time to visit there.
Hello! Today was a really fun day. In the morning, we didn’t really do much. Just before lunch though, we left for a day camp at a sheep museum.
After a relaxing morning, we headed to take a factory tour of Saltverk. Founded 5 years ago, Saltverk has revived a 17th century process to extract salt from the ocean using geothermal energy. This process results in a “flaky” salt. When we got there, we weren’t sure we’d really found it:
We spent the day in Ísafjörður, the largest town in the Westfjords (population: 2,600). It’s a nice little town, with a lot of shops, bakeries, and cafes:
We spent the previous night in a small area called Laugar in Saelingsdal, and it turns out our accommodations were right next to a natural hot pot:
Hello! Sunday we first went to Kolugljúfur (a waterfall).
