{"id":884,"date":"2025-05-26T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:11:11","slug":"day-eleven-isafjordur-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Day eleven, Isafjordur, Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s going to start sounding like a broken record, but it\u2019s another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Isafjordur is a nice little town on the banks of, you guessed it, a fjord. It\u2019s a beautiful place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s excursion is a bus ride with just two stops; first stop at the Dynjandi waterfall, and then second in a fishing village. But first a tunnel story. Our bus took us through a 6 KM long tunnel, but that isn\u2019t the remarkable part. First, you don\u2019t often see a tunnel with an intersection in the middle, with not so much as a stop sign. Second, once you get past the intersection the tunnel becomes a one lane tunnel with two way traffic. The outbound direction has frequent turnout lanes and traffic is required to give way at these spots. Very spooky, glad we weren\u2019t driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll leave a picture of the waterfall below and move onto the fishing village. The commercial fishermen there trade their catches internationally; the cod and herring are either frozen or dried. One traditional way of drying fish involves just hanging them out to dry on a rack protected by a wood slat booth. Our guide demonstrated this by taking a dried fish and using a mallet to separate the meat from the skin. We were told this is a very popular way to snack while watching TV; the sample we got was tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This day\u2019s guide was an interesting character; she is originally from Hungary, and while she is a tour guide for now she is nearly done becoming a commercial pilot. She had some stories to tell, including the difficult approach to the Isafjordur airport (navigating your way past mountains, make a u-turn over the fjord, and line up for the runway in one maneuver. Tricky sounding).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This trip is almost over, with just one port stop left. We land in Reykjavik tomorrow, and head for home the following day. More then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view from the ship at 4 AM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can you see the people standing next to the lower cataract? This waterfall is huge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The photographer enjoys taking pictures of churches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Harbor tucked away in this fjord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sampling dried fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s going to start sounding like a broken record, but it\u2019s another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Isafjordur is a nice little town on the banks of, you guessed it, a fjord. It\u2019s a beautiful place. Today\u2019s excursion is a bus ride with just two stops; first stop at the Dynjandi waterfall, and then second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}