Wild camping 2 days out of Nýidalur
This section covers the 147km, 4 days of walking, from Nýidalur hut to Landmannlaugar, I ended up adding a few km by taking a detour to Hrauneyjar Highland Center.
After the excitement of the Gæsavatnaleið Route, this part of the journey was actually a little dull. So I am not going to go into too much detail. There were some pretty cool views of Hofsjökull glacier (the 3rd largest in Iceland) to the west and of Þórisvatn (the largest lake in Iceland) to the east. But on the whole it was rather featureless and barren. Not to say that it wasn’t pretty, but with the Gæsavatnaleið route behind me and the Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls trails to look forward too, I was keen to get off the main track and begin exploring again.
I wild camped for the 3 nights en-route and then camped at Landmannlaugar, the popular starting point of the Laugavegur hiking route. The warden was nice enough to let me leave the buggy in the tool shed and from here on in it would just be me and my pack; all the way to the sea!
Hofsjökull glacier to the west in the distance!
Hrauneyjalon Lake about 8.5km from Hrauneyjar Highland Centre on the F208
The light hitting the mountains on the F208 towards Landmannalaugar was beautiful