Spectacular Island - Summer holiday Iceland july-august 2010

So this year I made it to Iceland - finally.

It has been a dream for several years now to visit Iceland, and tour the wast desolated central highland with my 4x4 Touareg.

The waiting were worth every minute - Iceland is a breathtaking experience, so many different landscapes in one island. We, my son Emil and I, drove plus 4.000 km. in 14 days. The daylight lasted for nearly 20 hours, so there were plenty of time every day to explore and soak op the amazing mountains, valleys, the plains, the fire, the ice.

In our quest for adventure we sought for the smallest and lees travelled mountain roads and tracks, and were very successful, - as a result we could drive for hours and hours and meet nobody. This was off course a matter to some concern, since if we had a mechanical breakdown there would be no help around, and naturally there were no mobile phone coverage in the desolate highlands. In order to be at least a little prepared I had brought a rucksack and some food, so we would be able to walk out and get help.
Luck were on our side, and there were no mechanical problems at all, just a slow leakage on one tire witch we could pump every morning.

I’ll get back soon with more details and photos. (why don´t the [img] tag work??)

HI again,
thanks for the welcome

Regarding pictures I noticed that in other post in this area of the forum other members have made a "Miniaturansicht angehängter Grafiken" - how is this done? - thank you

Meanwhile Alben/Gallery here: https://www.touareg-freunde.de/album.php?albumid=221

Kind regards

Zitat von JH-W12

Hello quattro.

I am looking forward for further photos of your Iceland trip. Additionally I would like to ask how you brought your Touareg to Iceland. Did you ship the car in a container or did you join your cars journey by ferry?

I am very interested about your trip as I plan to visit Iceland ASAP again myself

Besides in which part of Denmark do you live? Have you ever considered to join one of our meetings here in Germany?

On the other hand we (some Touareg Friends and I) have some plans to make a tour through Scandinavia and the help of locals would be highly appreciated.

Kind regards from northern Germany

Jan

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Hi Jan,

I´ll be back soon with more information, and a day by day log of the trip...

As posted I went to Iceland by my self in one car only... And I would love to go back to Iceland soon with one more car for security, I have some unfinished tracks to drive I were lucky, this year the amount of rain has been below normal in Iceland, so we were able to ford al the rivers on the mountain roads and jeep-traks we drove. Only one time a local recommended us to take a detour, but I think the person were not aware of the 58 cm. wade capability of the T-reg

I brought the T-reg with the Ferry from Hantsholm (DK) to Seydisfjördur (IS) (http://www.smyrilline.com/Frontpage.aspx). The cost for the car is around 1.000 EURO - 2 way trip -, I rented a 2 person cabin with a window for some luxury, additional 1.000 EURO. The trip from DK to IS takes two days, so bring books, maps and a computer to kill time

Yes I´m certainly considering joying one of your meetings in the future, and also a maybe trip. I live in Helsingør (Elsinore) near the ferry to Sweden, and I would by happy to assist in any way if I can.

For now I´m planing to visit Val D´isere next year, and also Iceland again maybe, on a 2011 trip I would make a little trekking also I think, and stay more in the centre highland.

Kind Regards
Peter