Iceland Trip: Day 13 - Isafjordur and its surroundings

Today we decided that we would spend it visiting the town of Isafjordur and its surroundings.

Our breakfasts in Iceland are usually one of our stronger meals and we have been pleased with the level of choice and quality of the offer.

In this specific hotel they even had something we both used to have when we were young. It is supposed to be very good for you. As we never cared for it and we did. To have our parents making us take it, we have it a miss ...

As we walked the town we were struck again by the beautiful colors that abound and the diversity of the landscape. We clicked away ...

As we were walking we saw a sign pointing to a photography exhibition and we went into this warehouse that part had been restored and part was still under construction and saw the different works being exhibited.

We even met one of them that was also preparing prawn cocktails for the visitors.

We had heard about tourists from crew ships taking pictures of houses in Isafjordur, activity that, it seems,is not very pleasing to the locals.

We could not resist it as the houses are so well taken care of, that they scream "Picture, please". We obliged ...

We also went into the local bookstore, bakery and general purpose store.

It was time for lunch and we found a restaurant that as I was entering, I saw these two guys having chicken wings.

So we asked for an Icelandic soup to share, wings for me and fish for Paula. We had seen in Tripadvisory that this restaurant had a very good Icelandic soup. We liked it a lot.

We then went back to hotel, put on our motorcycle clothes and made our way south to the town of Sudavik where we wanted to visit the Artic fox center. We had been told that they had a 6-week old fox that had been captured after its family had been killed by hunters.

We really enjoyed this visit where we met the pup but also had opportunity to learn more about this animal that was on way to extinction but its population is now more stabilized.

We specially enjoyed talking to the young volunteers that come from all parts of the world to help in this center. They told us that in Novemeber of the year before the volunteering opportunities are put on the Internet and they are filled pretty quickly by people that want to travel to learn more about Iceland and of course help in this cause. Fascinating ...

We highly recommend a stop at this center.

The hot chocolate and waffles are great !

The center closes at 6pm but they serve food and let you stay there a bit longer. We left at about 6:45pm and it was starting to drizzle.

But we did not feel like going back to hotel so fast so we decided to ride to Bolungarvik which is the northerst town in the Westfjords.

It was a short and as usual interesting ride and we stopped to see at a distance the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve. We also learned about the greatest marine disaster in Iceland that happened not too far away of where we were at.