Iceland: A Walk in the Park

Þingvellir is a national park in the municipality of Bláskógabyggð in southwestern Iceland, about 40 km northeast of Iceland's capital, Reykjavík.  There is a great walk here through an exciting variety of terrains...

  Þingvellir Trailhead

Famous Islands: Ring Road Adventure in Iceland

History of Iceland Parts 1 and 2

Iceland has a marvelous ring road with many interesting side trips now available through Google Streetview...  

Drone in Iceland - Ring Road Travel Guide - DJI Phantom

You can start your journey anywhere, but I began in the far north, near the town of Akureyri, heading north and then west down Route 1 that will eventually get us to Reykjavik after a scenic journey with many optional side trips:

 

Famous Islands: the Faroe Islands

Floating lake ... Sørvágsvatn, the largest lake in the Faroe islands, looks as though it is suspended over the sea when viewed from Trælanípa. Photograph: Tom Archer @tomarcherphoto

 

 

 

 

The rugged and majestic Faroe Islands are in the North Atlantic about halfway between Norway and Iceland.

 

 

Watch the natural beauty of Faroe Islands moving in timelapse: 

An award winning documentary about the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands, their struggles with difficult living conditions, clashes with nature, ocean, climate, isolation and hunger:

A brief history of the Faroe Islands from their official website:

History of the Faroe Islands

 The Icelandic Times also provides an excellent...

History of the Settlement of the Faroe Islands

Start of the Vágar Island Hike

 near the town of Gasadalur 

 

Admire the view then turn around and start the climb!

 

 

After a long, hard climb you get this vista 
with the town of Gasadalur in the distance...

  

 
 Choose from many roads and trails 
on Vágar Island in the Faroe Islands... 

 

 

 

Or many other locations in the Faroe Islands... 

  

Two More Great High North Hikes

There are two more great Google hikes in the Canadian High North, at Grise Fiord on the south coast of Ellesmere Island and at Resolute on Conwallis Island...

Trailhead for Grise Fiord Hike at the Inuit Memorial

 

This memorial is a moving tribute to the original Inuit Families who were relocated to desolate Grise Fiord by a government intent on asserting arctic sovereignty without thought for the human suffering involved:

RESOLUTE TRAIL

 

The other hike is located at Resolute on Cornwallis Island:

 Trailhead outside Resolute

Amazing Hike in Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island

Quttinirpaaq National Park is a Canadian National Park. Located on the northeastern corner of Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, the most northerly extent of Canada, it is the second most northerly park on Earth after Northeast Greenland National Park. In Inuktitut, Quttinirpaaq means "top of the world".  It was established as Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve in 1988, and the name was changed to Quttinirpaaq in 1999, when Nunavut was created, and became a national park in 2000. The reserve covers 37,775 square kilometres (14,585 sq mi), making it the second largest park in Canada, after Wood Buffalo National Park. (from Wikipedia Article:  Quttinirpaaq National Park)

 Watch a Parks Canada staff member collecting Street View images with the Google Trekker backpack camera. Incredible scenery on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada, just shy of the North Pole:

Canadian Geographic Article:

Canada's northernmost national park, Quttinirpaaq, is now on Google Street View

 On the shore of the Fjord 

Start of the Trail at Bottom Left of Map
 

Here are some higher views showing the area of the trail in light blue...

Took this picture looking back down the fjord that the trail runs beside: