Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds MKIII
Lens: Canon EF 16-35 mm. f/4.0L IS, Canon EF 70-200 mm. f/2.8L II IS

Grey skies hang low above the track while I went south via the Old Sprengisandur highland trail, the vast splendour of Iceland's highland desert provides the setting for the tour.

Sprengisandur means a certain part of the Highlands of Iceland between the glaciers Hofsjökull and Vatnajökull as well as the highland road traversing this region. The Sprengisandur highland road is with its 200 km the longest of the Icelandic highland roads. Like the Kjölur and the Kaldidalur highland roads, Sprengisandur is also a very old connection between the north and the south of the island. It has been known since the times of first settlement. There has also been a lot of superstition about it. Stories about bad ghosts and criminals were told, so that the old tracks were not in use for some time, - even today I have never meet anybody on this old track, although I've been here numerous times over the years.

I always recommend people to do this trail, it's truly spectacular and very desolated.

 

Location: Iceland