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A couple of kilometres further east the landscape changes and is dominated by a flat sandy plain with low vegetation and numerous strange cones, which resemble little volcanoes. But these cones are not mini volcanoes but the product of explosions that happened when hot lava met larger amounts of groundwater.
This landscape stretches until the little town of Kirkjubær. Here you find one of the few gas stations – together with a fast food “restaurant” – and it is recommendable to stop here and fill up your tanks, which was exactly what I did. Along doing this I got another lesson about car size scale Iceland style, as a huge off-road pick-up truck was refuelling its enormous tank. The lower end of the driver´s door was already about one meter above the ground and to get up there you needed to be quite sportive or had to take a ladder.
East of Kirkjubær it is again moss-covered lava fields to the right and vertical cliffs with the odd waterfall to the left. The sky had become cloudy now and for a while this put some extra drama on the plains and the inland mountains and estuaries.
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