ASKJA: Driving ON an active VULCANO!
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- An adventurous drive over vulcanic fields into Icelands Highlands - the heart, of the country. One of the most remote places of Iceland. Experience the jaw dropping excursion to the Askja Volcano, Öskjuvatn Lake and the stunning Viti crater.
00:00 Intro Askja
01:03 Starting our trip at Lake Myvatn
03:44 Route F88 to Askja
06:12 A lush green oasis: Herðubreiðarlindir
09:00 How to cross rivers in Iceland with your vehicle
10:16 The Canyon Carver Waterfall
11:31 Dreki - Scientist Station & Campground
13:09 Hiking on Askja Vulcano
13:54 Öskjuvatn Lake & Viti Crater
15:44 Route F910 from Askja
18:28 Driving ON the ridge of a vulcanic mountain!
20:14 Fill up at Fjalladýrð
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Superb, spectacular and awesome ❤❤❤❤ enjoy 🎉🎉🎉
Majestic, rugged country!
It really is. Iceland is so stunning!
Hi Lea, really enjoyed the video, and seeing your tour guide lowering the tyre pressures reminded me of how they ignite a flammable spray to put a tyre back on when it has come of it's rim, it really is spectacular to see. Thank you.
Oh wow I have never seen that! 😳😳😳
Askja . Sounds like a land from a 'Lord of the Rings' movie. And what a nice weather you had so far on Iceland. Nun könnte ich im TV auf Nord 3 heute Abend gleich noch 'Island im Winter' schauen.
Es soll ja Leute geben, die sogar im Winter mit dem Motorrad in island unterwegs sind. 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
And yes, I think Icelandic in general sounds a little bit like out of a fantasy novel. Askja, myavatn, siglo….
About 50 years ago I visited Iceland with Trailfinders and was able to tour the country, including vding a visit to Askjo crater, Several of our party scrambled down to the lake, stripped off and had a swim in the. Volcano, despite obvious boiling water near the centre. What an experience to relate!😊.
Lea
Jaw dropping scenery is an understatement! Your drone shots really give the best point of view and scale. Unbelievable views! Just when I think your videos can't get better, they do.
You amaze me lady. I am going to visit here before any other big journeys.
Of course you get many more roses and vases! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🏆🏆
Little "A" gets a treat. 🍭🍭
Riding Partner gets...🍻🍻
Ride SAFE and BE safe Lady!
I would be so excited for you if you visited Iceland! In the next episode there will come a few downsides of this country though - I hope they will not put you off.
Thank you for the roses, treats and beers! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
You did some beautiful pictures of amazing Askja. Thank you for bringing back beautiful memories. Danke ❤
Hi Lea! Good to see you back again. Beautiful scenery.
Thank you!
Once again, breathtaking. Iceland is a beautifully diverse landscape that is steeped in legend and folklore. Definitely not a place one should ride solo.
This week’s guesses: Ares, Axil, Aaro
I’m running on fumes. Not many more names in my name-guessing quiver. 😂
The good thing about Iceland is, that there are many people exploring these places - so even if it’s super remote, you mostly have a car or two coming by every few hours (and the structure in case something happens is of course very good).
Still not there. We have so many episodes to go, don’t throw the towel yet! 😂
@@Got2Go Hmmm… Got2Go put on my thinking hat. See what I did there? 🤣🤣🤣
What an amazing country! Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks for joining!
Fantastic video Lea.❤❤
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That countryside is full of otherworldly beauty! The guide was so friendly and helpful. What a great country!
Yes he was the best and so full of knowledge! Happy he showed us askja and the surroundings!
What an absolutely amazing video, Lea.
That was some beautiful scenery. Just wow. What a stunning country.
I'm looking forward to the next episode. Safe travels. ❤
Thank you and see you next week!
So beautiful landscape i love 😍
Good evening Lea,
Astounding landscapes.
Askja is one of the big and dangerous volcanous of Iceland. Activity is slowly rising.
The landscape reminds me of the Hardangervidda in norway. Bloody cold there although it was midsummer.
The only ‘active’ volcanous I’ve been on were in the Auvergne in France and the Eifel in Germany. No, they’re not dead yet.
Askja crater lake is auf Deutsch, ein Maar like you will find many in the Eifel.
Wow I actually didn’t know about the activity in Germany! I will have to pay closer attention next time I am there. Thanks for all the information.
@@Got2Go by active I mean it’s not dead, it’s dorment but there’s still a magma chamber underneath. In the Maria Laach sea, gas bubbles are still rising. The volcano will become active again; that can be within a few years but it can stay dormant for hundreds of years too. Some scientists think that a next eruption will be closer to the Rhine and the Rhine could be blocked by a lava stream. Let’s hope it stay dormant because an eruption would be big trouble for the whole of Europe.
Same with the Auvergne in France; it will wake again.
Great video thank you very well done thanks for taking us along. Cold and snow in upstate New York. Thanks for warming my day.cheers to ya.
Cold here in Switzerland also!!!
Thank you for posting this amazing episode.
Best wishes
P&J
Thank you for joining the drive!
So beautiful. Thank you!
A different and beautiful video...... thanks lea......
Thank you!
What a place on earth, or is it another planet 😳 thank you again so much, for bringing this world closer to us. In high quality performance, as we know from you 👍 Lea, on the road again 🏍️ so good 😊
Thank you so much and happy you are part of this journey!
Such a magical place! Thank you Lea for taking us there. 😊 Another thought, you guys are going to need a sidecar for the little guy. 🎉
Definitely! And he also needs a small mini motorcycle as soon as possible!
What a perfect day you had. Such interesting landscape.
Dear Lea, we have been there last July by motorcycle. It was great and I'm just cutting our video to this great destination. I will release it soon on my UA-cam channel Thomas Tours 😊 Many thanks for your inspiring videos
Thank you Lea.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you so much for watching!
I feel natural beauty!!!!
Hi Lea Welcome…..👋👋👋
Thank you!
Thank you Got2Go ❤😊
Thank you for watching
What a nature island is really a special place
Great, thank you so much!
Ok 👏🎉 tschuss Lea
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Erm… Isn't basically all of Iceland an active volcano? 😊 Actually it was today that I suggested to an Icelander elsewhere to put up signs at all points where visitors enter with something like "Country Under Construction" on them. 🤗
Another absolutely beautiful one! 🤩 🤗
Yep, that is what it feels like. And I know you probably meant it is a joke, but I love „country under construction“. Because it’s just true! 😳😳😳
@@Got2Go If only it weren´t quite as true. I currently watch the live stream of the eruption that started this morning. Shawn Wilsey has a drone streaming live and watching as a fissure right on Grindavik´s northern edge opened while it was in the air. Grindavik looks pretty much f*cked right now. 😢
Excellent video.
A really fabulous video showing me places I can only dream about. And yet, and yet I feel I need to shout out; we have to make some sort of start of preserving these landscapes for our children and grandchildren and just for themselves. Here we have an Icelander driving a monster truck along a ridge he "had never done before". Does it not occur to him that his action can only lead to environmental destruction? Is he so causal that so long as he is paid then that justifies driving over such landscapes? At some point Icelanders have to limit their exploitation of their own country.! They have to care for this land not just make money from it. To give it the time it needs to be what it is. Pristine. Or just use it and make it into some adventurer's Disneyland... And we have seen what that leads to on the Barrier Reef in Australia, held in the not so careful hands of the Australians. And Got2Go, she has to also start to react to the destruction tourism brings. Nice to make video's. Great to get some modest income from UA-cam. Well be challenged as a parent and explain how forefathers donated a plant to you in such a state!! Adventure travellers have to start being responsible!
I don’t know if you are Icelandic or not, but if you are you probably know that it’s forbidden to drive off-road in Iceland. Also you would know that most Icelandic guides coming from Iceland are very strict with these rules and work very close with for example the rangers of the national parks and areas like askja is one. So did our guide. Only because he has not driven one certain road yet, it doesn’t mean it’s illegal terrain destroying nature. As you can also see on the video we were never off the track and followed it completely. As you might also know if you are Icelandic is that many many official roads are just tracks that sometimes are hard to follow because they go through or even in river beds, over mountain ridges, volcanic fields or similar. If you leave the big ring road, that’s just how most of Icelandic roads are.
What you didn’t see in the video is all the thoughts and worries our guide had about tourism in Iceland - that he thought it’s too many, that tourists visiting certain fragile areas like Askja should pay a fee to make the work of the rangers easier or to be obliged to go with locals or guides so the destruction of nature is prevented as good as possible.
My experience is that it’s never the local guides who are destroying nature, it is that it’s people who mostly come from wealthy nations who think the nature is theirs and who act as if there is no tomorrow.
I don’t know if you follow my chanel closely, but I have doubts. Because wherever I go I try to exactly do that, engage local guides every now and then to get to know the areas better and learn about how to protect them (unfortunately I can’t do it all the time because it is expensive - and I want to pay my guides a fair amount of money for their work, because contributing to the local infrastructure is also an important part of tourism). Of course tourism in general alsways has the potential to destroying places and nature - it does in every country, also the country I live in. But in my opinion the solution is not to just stop traveling or make traveling crazy expensive so it’s only available to the upper 10.000.
that‘s why I am also not gatekeeping places. I travel in a way that is accessible to many people. Overland, with my own vehicle. And I agree with you that these topics have to be voiced - but also the goal of my Chanel is to be there to make traveling more accessible to everyone. I do believe that there are many ways to travel more sustainable and take care about the nature (and also local ecosystems, goods and people) more and I do raise my voice for that - but I simply can’t do it in every video. What I can do is respecting local rules and laws as much as possible - and normally that comes across in pretty much every video. But if you have any questions feel free to ask. Also: I am not perfect, there unfortunately isn’t a way to travel without any impact yet no matter how hard we try, and this is still a private Chanel that is not political or has any agenda besides of opening the world more. And the last points are also a decision I took, so I hope you can understand that.
What I do think is dangerous though and what is a big problem of social media these days is assuming a truth from a short snipped you see. Like you did about our guide. I have not met anyone in Iceland who was more concerned about the environment than him. So maybe also you can learn and in the future ask questions that hopefully will be answered nicely by the other party, before jumping to conclusions about people/traveles/situations that are simply not true.
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What an amazing video. I’m going to be taking the same trip in July this year. This video was very helpful. I was wondering if you know what the track you took up the volcanic ridge is called or where exactly to access it. I would love to drive that bit if possible. Thanks.
Super drone footage..
Beautiful scenery.
By the way..as you were "mostly" pregnant on this trip was your doctor concerned about you riding a motorcycle at this stage of your pregnancy?
Stay safe
no, my doctor gave me the permission to ride (of course she said that having an accident is a risk that I need to validate myself, but the normal riding without accident from the forces of the motorcycle was no big risk at that point. A few weeks later though she told me to stop because aprupt breaking would have potentially been too much force and could have been a risk for the placenta). I was driving much more carefully than usual though and as you will see in the end we also decided to do some more difficult gravel roads by another means of transport.
Very beautiful country how much is fuel in that country must be very expensive not to many cars 🚙
Fuel Prices were pretty similar to Central Europe (so expensive!), but compared to other prices like accommodation they felt pretty „normal“ to me.
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Glad you're back but the music was nerve jangling. I couldn't watch the whole trip.
Sorry to hear you didn’t like the choice of music this time.