Yay, I’m alive today and did my first little tour not far from here to Neskaupstaður. This town is located on the neighbour fjord „Norðfjörður“ of Eskifjördur and I reached it via an 8 km long tunnel.
In the Neskaupstaður Nature Reserve I did hike to the Páskahellir (which translates into Easter cave). As I am quite short legged it involed some proper climbing down the rocks and as it was quite windy I didn’t go completely down – safety first.
It is said that one can watch the sun dance on Easter morning in Páskahellir – that’s the origin of its name.
The small cave was carved out by waves after the Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago. Inside the cave smaller holes left by trees are visible which were covered by lava about 12 million years ago. And on the outside you see pillow lava and a dike.