At Hraunfossar (lava falls) spring water flows out from under a lava flow cap for around 1km along the river

Admiring the view

A few hundred meters upstream is Barnafoss (children's fall) where the whole river flows through a narrow arch

Zip

Four wheel drive bus transfer to Langjökull (long glacier)

Converted NATO missile launchers drive you up onto the glacier

The tyre pressures can be adjusted from inside the cab and the tyres are studded

At the entrance to the tunnels the ash from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption can be seen

Deep inside the glacier

There are water channels throughout the glacier

Blue ice

There are 500m of tunnels

The entrance is high up on the glacier

The site of the edge of the ice in the year 2000

Below the glacier the landscape is barren

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