Driving and Drone Flying In The Huge & Mysterious Torfajokull Caldera in Iceland
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 Published On Oct 12, 2024

This is a unique journey into the largest caldera in Iceland that is more and less without any ice although the Torfajökull glacier covers a little part of the 200 km2 sleeping giant that started to rumble in 2023. The Torfajöull volcanic system includes a main volcano and a fissure swarm (direction NE-SW) and is about 40 km long and 30 km wide. The main volcano there is around 18×12 km and the caldera includes also the largest geothermal area in Iceland (150 km2)

This is a summer road only and not even marked as an F-Road and it can be accessed from F225 but the even more rough option is from F210.

Laugavegur Hiking Trail: https://www.mountainguides.is/laugave...
General Tourist service in the region: https://gyg.me/yrVzlA2W

Map links for our tour:
Start: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UC7CBtP3bLzqo...
End: https://maps.app.goo.gl/J5UwX4TDp6ZuK...

It’s possible to drive a bit further to Hrafntinnusker but this was in the afternoon and it was more urgent to use the little sunlight I got every now and for drone flying since the 2023 tour didn't deliver what I hoped for as for light.

I intend to make a full information video about this volcano but it’s only possible with the interview format since this is a complicated system and it’s not for me to do it justice as for the geology. So the drive & drone around is just an extra feature to my full coverage this winter. but the English Wiki page is however quite good for beginners so I'm leaving a link to it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torfajö...

Feel free to comment on the form i'm using for this video, especially the choice of music and how i’m adding drone footage to the tour to explain the landscape better. The “epic style ending” was actually not planned, i just felt like that after all this magnificent landscape, and i have still plenty more to show you.

This video is dedicated to a friendly subscriber who does'n have the health to travel around my country but uses my channel to look around and this is my way to say, thanks Alex for inspiring me to do those full trips and supporting my work. This particular project is just starting:

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