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I've traveled to a lot of places around the world, but Iceland feels like another planet
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The landscapes don't even look real. Endless roads, black sand beaches, rainbow-filled waterfalls
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and scenery that feels straight out of a movie. Everywhere you look feels unreal
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So in this vlog, I'm taking you through Iceland exactly how I experienced it. The drives
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the adventures, the wind strength, and of course, some of the most beautiful spots on my journey
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Welcome to Iceland. Before I begin, all of the names of the destinations that I visited will be
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the description box for you to easily view instead of me trying to pronounce the Icelandic name and no
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one understanding what I mean. That evening I decided to explore Reykjavik a little during
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sunset before the adventure really began tomorrow. For the next six days I'm traveling around Iceland
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with Arctic Adventures, a company that has been leading expeditions here for over 40 years. The
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first stop was the Sun Voyager sculpture by the water which also happened to be my introduction to
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the Icelandic wind speeds. Reykjavik instantly felt different from anywhere else. Colourful streets
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cozy cafes and that huge church towering over the city, Halkrimskirkja. The next morning we hit the road early and made our first stop at Kronfasa
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And this place honestly looked unreal. Kronfasa is a series of waterfalls that flow straight through ancient lava fields
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creating these bright blue streams that almost look fake against the black volcanic rock
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The contrast of the water and the lava is just wild. After that we headed to one of the experiences I was most excited for
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the Into the Glacier tour. To get there you have to travel across the glacier in these enormous monster trucks that genuinely feel unstoppable
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And somewhere beneath all of this ice is a man-made tunnel system carved directly into one of Iceland's glaciers
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Which is exactly where we were heading to next This is the Kerid volcanic crater formed over 6,500 years ago
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It's one of the most geologically beautiful places you can find here in Iceland
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As you can see, there is a lake that is formed inside. That lake is 55 meters deep in the winter and in the colder months
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despite it being summer now it's also cold but in the winter months this will be completely frozen
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and that lake inside is 55 meters deep and as you can see it's surrounded by red volcanic rock
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you have a beautiful peninsula just behind me and over this ledge
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you have volcanic crater you can actually walk all the way down into the crater
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As you can see the lake just shimmering in the sun. The red volcanic rock just below my feet
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makes me walk all across the rim of the crater. From the glacier we continued deeper into Iceland's volcanic landscape and arrived at
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one of the country's lava tunnels. These tunnels were formed thousands of years ago during volcanic eruptions when molten
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lava flowed beneath the surface and slowly carved huge passageways through the rock
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Today you can walk directly through them. Inside, the tunnel stretches deep underground
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surrounded by layers of volcanic rock shaped by Iceland's constant geological activity
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The walls are filled with different colours created by minerals in the lava, and in some sections you can clearly see the paths where the molten rock
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once flowed through the tunnel. It's one of the best ways to experience just how volcanic and raw
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Iceland really is beneath the surface. Here is Alexander to explain more
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All right, I'll be a secret friend, so I will make fun of him. Can anyone tell me what is the red color
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Any idea? A lot of these horizontal lines, because when the lava was flowing out of the tube
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as the lava drains out of here it gradually goes lower and lower it melts these lines into the rock
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so these are called flow lines and we can use these lines to estimate how the eruption was flowing
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and the eruption being again 10 kilometers away you'll also notice the color is a bit different
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this gray silver is color this is a very thin layer of crystallized silica which is what we
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called glass. So in this case you call this volcanic glass. Silica is a very uniform crystal
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Now silica is known for a lot of things but a lot of people don know silica is amazing for our skin As it turns out we found this out in the Blue Lagoon mainly containing a lot of silica there
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Are you guys ready? Yeah! Alright, alright. 3, 2, 1. Oof. behind me is Stroke geyser and this geyser is erupting right out of the ground once on average
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every seven minutes now what happens is the water underneath the ground gets so hot
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over 100 degrees that the pressure gets so much and it has to explode out of the opening in the
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ground and as you can tell already the air smells completely of sulfur it's a very strong
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smell most of the island here in iceland actually smells like this but i'm gonna go and get a little
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bit closer see if i can see the water erupting from below the ground
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As you guys can see, I've just arrived to one of the most beautiful viewpoints I think I've ever
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seen in my whole life. This is one of the lagoons that you find here in southern Iceland. I'll put
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the Icelandic name on the screen. I want to respect their pronunciation. And as you can see
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the melting glaciers have cracked off icebergs and those icebergs have traveled all the way down
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this lagoon and will end up at the sea just behind me and just there is the world famous
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diamond beach. This right here behind me is a living shifting reminder of the country's natural
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phenomenon and this right behind me has to be one of the most spectacular sites ever. You can see
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right in the far distance, I'll try and get a shot of that, that is the glacier which flows directly
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into the lagoon and there are bright blue icebergs which just travel all the way down
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the lagoon right there down to the beach. It's nothing short of spectacular this country
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so far has just been an absolute dream and I'm standing here at probably one of the most
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visually stunning and phenomenal places that I've ever been to anywhere in the world
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What a joy. Thank you
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I've just arrived for something that is going to be an epic experience
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A four hour expedition across what is right behind me. This is in English named the Falling Glacier
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I'll put the Icelandic name on the screen. We're going to be trekking for four hours across this beautiful glacier
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which covers 8% of Iceland's entire island. It's going to be such an incredible experience
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Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice
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Solid hiker. After a small hike of the dusty part of the glacier, this is actually formed because the
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glacier was slowing down so rapidly that it picked up all of the dust and the dirt
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dirt but now as you can see below my feet I have landed on the snow which is covering the glacier below my feet below my feet there is 90 meters of really thick ice and the snow beneath my feet now as you can see you
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can move it with the crampon and this is actually because it's fresh snowfall
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that has slowly started to melt and form into ice and you can see the
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beautiful glacier behind me stunning formations of ice and rock we're gonna
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head into these valleys and into the crevasses of the ice and we're gonna
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head further in to the area I love this kind of activity it really brings you
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bright to nature and yeah I'm really excited to keep going and let's go
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Okay team, next up on the agenda we've arrived into a lagoon
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This is GSM of water which has come up through the rock and we've made a beautiful resort out of it
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I'm not gonna film because there's many people inside and for their privacy, I've recorded but just know, I'll put the name on the screen, come here when you can cry
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I am just arriving into what could be the most spectacular natural beauty I have ever
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I've just returned back to Reykjavik, the capital
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after four days of what has been just the most incredible trip so far
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I've come back to Reykjavik, we have one final day tomorrow. And I've arrived back, it's 10.59pm
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Recently just got back around 30 minutes ago. And I just quickly checked the aurora
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I been praying to see this the entire time I been here in Iceland however it currently May So the daytime length is so long it 10 and it still light outside the sun has set however we still have light for about
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another 45 minutes and the sun starts to come up at 4 a.m which means the first light will come up
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around 2.30 so the time in which to see them during this time is so short that most people
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never see them. However, I'm looking at the Aurora activity. The website is called Iceland at night
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and I don't know if you guys can see this but the Aurora is so strong right now it's at level four
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So the Aurora activity is from zero to ten. So the last three nights it's been at two
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and three and I haven't seen them despite staying awake however this is such a strong aurora
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even across Iceland you can see Iceland just here and the aurora is currently covering the entire
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island so despite needing to sleep so badly right now I'm exhausted I booked a taxi in one hour to
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go to a location by the water away from the city which faces the mountains to hopefully
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and praying see the aurora so i will leave at midnight and i'll arrive around 12 15 and stay
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there for an hour and we can pray together to see if we can see them i will see you in one hour
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and let's hope we can see the aurora Today is the final day in Iceland and we're starting by ticking off a dream of mine to
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see humpback whales. I saw them in Sydney, Australia in 2025 but they took one breath
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and dove deep into the ocean so today I'm hoping to see them for a little bit longer
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some whales. Dolphins are around the... around the... The trip was so beautiful already with puffins swimming
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and hunting, dolphins being so playful and then this happened... Dolphin, we hangered at 4 o'clock
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as a lot of you know i am very interested in seismology meteorology and anything that makes
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the earth the way it is so what lies right behind me is something very exciting for me to see this
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is the dividing line between the american and the eurasian tectonic plate now these tectonic plates
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are moving two to 2.5 centimeters away from each other every single year i'm standing right here
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on the edge of the american plate and six kilometers this way is the beginning of the
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eurasian plate and as that spreads apart as they move it causes a lot of earthquakes
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Many of you know that Iceland is prone to earthquakes. This right here, this line here is the dividing line
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This is the American plate. And as you can see between the two tectonic plates, a huge lake has formed
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Creating what has to be one of the most beautiful vistas I've seen
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It's so geologically rich, so beautiful. Beautiful standing here right at the heart of the two tectonic plates is something very very special for me
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After the wonders of the national park it was time to head back to Reykjavik and say goodbye to Iceland
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One of my favorite adventures and most windy so far. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in the next video
