

In a massively eroded volcanic/glacial area, multicolored hills spill silt and rock down their sides in fascinating patterns. A prehistoric road traverses the bottom of this arid, stone valley of pressed rock that has been ground away at the bottom of a glacier for millions of years. The Vatnajokull is the largest glacier in Europe, and due to multiple buried volcanoes that erupt and melt ice, it has an unusal number of glacial lakes. It joins the badland plateau with the coastline, which is swept with dramatic monadnocks, volcanoes, fjords, and green hills dotted with grasses.