Visit Vík - A Beautiful Village by the Enormous Katla Volcano
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2022
- Join me as we visit an Ivelandic village by the roots of the enormous Katla volcano that could erupt with a short notice and remains the most heavily guarded volcano in Iceland. So I try to give you an idea about how it is to live so close by these forces, surrounded by spectacular nature.
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The full Katla documentary / Eng Sub
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Katla unrest in 2022
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The River Monitoring around Vík / Múlakvísl
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With Greetings from Iceland
Gylfi
Thank you. My wife and i toured Iceland over 9 days about 4 years ago. For whatever reason, probably limited time, we never made it to Vik. This video makes me wish we had made the time...
Welcome back to Iceland :)
I spent a week in Iceland, staying in a B&B about 5 minutes from Vik. Beautiful part of the country.
Thanks you :)
Thank you, Gylfi, so very well done. And thank you for mentioning that Netflix show "Katla." I watched the first episode (of 7 or 8?) a couple of years ago and couldn't stop watching it. Different pacing and development than almost every Hollywood-type limited series ... and it works. I note that Gylfi, from northern Iceland in Akureyri where the ground isn't exactly calm, would not live in southernmost Vik. Hmmm... Katla must rattle peoples' teeth quite often for Gylfi to avoid living there. (The specter of a huge subglacial flood _and_ boatloads of tourists probably are factors as well.)
Vik is my favorite small village in Iceland! I really like it there.
Its very nice indeed :)
Thank you for a great movie. It was educational and showed me a different side of Vik. Once I was in Vik and I fell in love with this place. However, the vision of the flood is so strong that I would not dare to live there. I will live in Vik but only with my heart. :)
Thanks a lot for sharing :) and always welcome :)
Vik was the furthest point explored when I was stationed at Naval Air Station (NAS) Keflavik in 1979-80. It was a tough journey because ring road was barely in existence. Lots of water crossing. Scenery was spectacular and that is understating it.
Aha, so you tried the 1st get road system :) that was really something and thanks for sharing :)
Your series on Icelandic towns & villages is awesome! I really loved Vík when I visited Iceland many years ago and this gives me a different perspective... Thank you, Gylfi, for your beautiful videos and always reliable information.
Happy to hear that! and welcome
I was in vik last may, so beautiful there. I mainly came there because of Katla, Eyjafjallajökull and hekla but vik is definitely an great town!!
Totally agree, adds to the contrasts around :) and greetings from Iceland :)
Visited Vik on Friday; beautiful stop
Have a great time :)
Yes, the view of Vik from the church - lovely!
Thanks :)
great video! I enjoyed Vik a lot! It was my first destination after my hike to Meradalir. Unfortunately I didn't make it in time to the eruption. I was 3 days too late, but I found out about the worlds only Lava Show in Via and so I immediately went there the next day. My one quantum of solace: I wanted to see real lava all my life and I finally got a chance to see it in Vik, albeit artificially made by humans but it was well worth it in my mind. After the show was over, we had the most glorious sunset that illuminated the clouds. felt like the sky was on fire. If you like, I can share the pictures that I made that. -Greetings from Germany.
You can link to them from the comment section, if online but you might see real lava some day since we are in the long and very active cycle on the Reykjanes peninsula, so bee on the lookout, it's nothing like an eruption just by your feet like we have experience so close by the city, but it's only the beginning, and greetings from Iceland :)
I was there in March. I didn't see the Lava show in Vik, but the restaurant that does them (The Soup Company) was one of my favorite places I ate at in Iceland. After a long, exhausting, and cold day, there wasn't anything else that could have hit the spot better than an assortment of hearty, delicious soups (with a free refill, no less!).
Visited here in October last year. Very beautiful, also completely calm and relaxed populace re the eruption they know will come some day soon. They have (as shown) regular evacuation drills etc and also believe that what will happen will happen and is all part of living in one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Interestingly, Vik is also a town with the most amazing / bizarre tourist attraction (only in Iceland!!!) in The Icelandic Lava Show - where you can sit in a room with others, all completely safe, while the owners melt basalt to 1300 degrees C and pour it over ice to then cool down in front of you … and then stop for traditional Icelandic food.
It’s amazing! Just not sure who is the most bonkers - Julius and his wife for coming up with the idea, sourcing bespoke equipment at the cutting edge of volcano research to make it happen, and then running it; us paying tourists for visiting; or the Icelandic government for granting the permits in the first place.
I'm flying to Iceland next Sunday for my first ever visit, strong winds permitting!! I'm staying mainly in the Selfoss area for 6 days. Your videos are very inspirational thank you, I may just visit Vik, for photography and possibly drone photography too, Again, wind and weather permitting.
Sounds great! and welcome to Iceland :) the weather is unpredictable now so it's gonna be an adventure tour, and have a great time :)
Such a beautiful little town with a great history.
Thanks :)
I was in Vik a few weeks ago. We went on a tour of the Katla Ice Caves with Troll Expeditions. They made a slight detour on the trip to get some pictures or their vehicles in front of a tall green hill (mountain). The weather was amazing.
Sounds great, hope you had a great time :)
Visited Vík when I came to Iceland in October 2013, lovely little place with its remote “edge of the world” feeling.
Thanks for sharing :)
You are an excellent guide. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
My pleasure!
Iceland is very much on my visit list. I am a self confessed volcano fan. It's amazing how life is born from such violence and destruction. But the resilience and strength of people in those areas is legendary. And just like we people of the Hebridies 🏴 there's a Viking heritage also.
Thanks for visiting 😊
Thank you Gylfi; it is always a joy and a comfort to fly with you! 🤗🤗🤗 I will visit one day; I am planning it❣️❣️
Welcome to Iceland 🇮🇸 👏
So very beautiful! Your footage is amazing! Love this video! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you very much and welcome :)
Spent a night in Vik last summer. Stayed in Hotel Vik. Because of the endless days of the season, we always got into our evening destinations so very late, lol. But in Vik, the hotel directed us to one place that would still be open for dinner: “red boat down by the water”. With this cryptic knowledge, we found the delightful Strondin! Great beers & food, wonderful service and cheerful crowd. Table next to us looked like a film crew on break with their big fancy movie cameras at their sides. I wonder what they were filming (28-5-21)? In the morning, it was eerily rainy and foggy. But the church on the hill shown right through! The town isn’t THE premier cultural destination, but with its many services and accommodations it is a great base camp for the glacier park and the south coast.
Well said, it's the south coast centre spot and growing well as such, and greetings from Iceland :)
Thankyou for keeping us informed 😁
My pleasure 😊
We had such an awesome stay at Vik this year...love Iceland. We went twice this year, in Mar and Aug. We are from Hawaii, driving around looked a lot like the Big Island here with the lava fields.
Pretty little village
Yes it's a gem :)
I was going to spend 2 days in Vik in a week's time... But caught a well known bug last minute. Have to wait till spring now (flights re-booked!). Thank you for sharing this beautiful footage and interesting info :)
Good recovery and welcome to Iceland anytime :)
@@JustIcelandic Thank you :)
Stayed in VIK ..
Beautiful and the Meals were 5 Star
Thanks for sharing 👍
When my sister and I visited Vik in April-May 2022 we saw the volcano show. The show was started my a survivor of the 1918 flood. They told us about the spot (church on the hill) to go if Katla produces a cytoplasmic flow or if a glacial Flood is released. We were aware of the possibility of this happening anywhere from Vik to Huf (east) where we were headed. At the time we were staying right on black Sands Beach behind the visitor’s center on the other side of the basalt columns. We thought if there was an issue, we’d just climb up the mountain. It was on of the most magical places I’ve ever visited!
Please visit Vik!!!
Another awesome video, take care and thank you for sharing 🙏👍❤️
Thanks for visiting👍
Like always a excellent video. Beautiful place and valuable info
Thanks again😊
Such a pretty place. One would need nerves of steel to live there...between the volcano and threat of glacial flood (fire and ice 🙄again) it could be unnerving. I think the Icelandic people are stoic, and accept that it is what it is. I can sympathize with the tourist influx...we live in a small town in FLA, USA, and every winter the snowbirds come for a visit. The Summer seems magical with 1/2 the traffic, etc. But, like Iceland the tourists/snowbirds are what keep the economy going. Thanks for a lovely video, and the geology lesson. 🤗
Thanks a lot for sharing and greetings from Iceland :)
Great ! I went to Vik on October 21 ! I love it !
Thanks for visiting :)
Beautiful town Vik! 💖❤️ on my top bucket list of countries to visit is Iceland!
Loved it!
Thank you 😊
Great video! Thank you for all the information!!
Thanks 😊
after our landmannalaugar hike we were accommodated just a bit outside of vik before you drive over the small pass and enter the town. very nice family, we had quite some fun with the hosts and he told us a bit about how it is to live at the base of katla. i think we could have stayed weeks, and explore the whole surroundings. you could just go outside of the house and hike up all the way to the icecap of katla.
Yes I could spent weeks there with a camera and discover something new every day :) and greetings from Iceland
Amazing video again. Great information beautiful images. ❤ We have been there in june this year.
Thanks for sharing and I hope you got good weather....and greetings from 🇮🇸 Iceland
You make such scenic videos to accompany your information updates or history vignettes. Thank you so much for your beautiful content!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful town, beautiful footage! 😀
Thank you very much!
I love these videos, and postcards from Iceland.
Thanks a lot and welcome :)
Thank you again for a great video. I spent 3 days in Vik this last July. I climbed up the road with the cars coming down at the end of the video. There are a lot hiking trails in the Vik area. You did not mention the sneaker waves. But I think you did a video on them in the past. I like the Dyrholaey beach and the drive up to the light house there. You get great views from the area near the lighthouse there. I will be back in Iceland in the summer of 2024. Thank you Linda and Ben
Yes the sneaker wave beach belongs in a separate video later on but it need to be mentioned, great you are planning to come back Linda and Ben :)
Great channel! Very informative and interesting, keep up the good work!
Thank you very much👍
Lovely to see the basalt beach of Vik again, I walked there in the beautiful summer of 2004. The 'sand' is amazing: a deep black color mixed with golden sparkles, like in a fairy tale...
Greetings from The Netherlands!
Thanks for sharing and greetings from Iceland :)
Vik is a favourite place of mine. Love the beach and seeing the puffins. Thank you for the lovely tour…..
Best regards
Many thanks!
thank you very much for the visit of that little town with its wild coastline , wich is what I prefer : the so beautiful wilderness of your island
Thanks a lot ☺
Thanks for this awesome video! Good to see Vik again. Near Vik there is a place called Þakgil, it is so beautiful there and great hiking routes with views on the glacier.
Thanks for the tips! and greetings from Iceland
Beautifull shots! They have a verry good restaurant with the best lamb meat i have ever eaten 👌🏻👌🏻 The katla had probably this year also a verry small eruption, you said in a previous video if i remember right? Because the solheimajokull water was higher than usuall and smells like sulphur.
Thanks for another very nice video. Seen on 9/13/22 at 10:32 PM
Thanks again!
Been there this February, i got at Vik the best Shots for my Camera, can't wait for my second trip in December
Welcome back to Iceland :)
Thank you for the interesting video. We visited Vik in early June. On the occasion, mist and rain ruled, so we did not quite experience the scenery like is shown in the video. But what we saw was very beautiful and interesting.
Thanks for sharing and I agree, this summer wasn't good so I went after a short weather window to do a detour to shoot this and more on the south coast, better luck next time and greetings from iceland :)
I agree with you,.it is a bit or should I say rather a lot too close to the volcano 🌋 for my liking to & I would not feel safe given the regularity of the volcano erupting, the 800 metres of ice, the high potential of flooding together with the isolation of the town. Thank you.for the video - that's close enough for me!!
Beautiful little town i sure hope it doesn’t become to western it’s charm looks so amazing
I hope so too :) and greetings from Iceland :)
And greetings from Australia,i can’t wait to visit your beautiful country
The grass is very green.. I have heard that the best agricultural land in the world is created by volcanoes.. I know that Iceland is so cold and receives less sunlight then other places so that prevents it from having high food production from the land.. But is there a greenhouse industry operating in Iceland? Or is it just cheaper to import plant based foods into Iceland?
They have quite a few greenhouses, they even grow bananas! 👍🏻
Yes we have a greenhouse industry that depend on geothermal energy as well but we do still import way to much, should be exporting but this is one of the topics that I will cover in future, or how much more we could actually do....
@@JustIcelandic That would be an interesting video to see.. I also wonder if Iceland could grow more trees and have a timber industry.. I did see a video ( may have been from you ? ) about the early settlers in Iceland going hunting in the forests when they first arrived.. That makes me wonder if the tree less views we see of Iceland is a result of human intervention and not because of the harshness of the environment..
One day I will walk on that beach.
Always welcome to Iceland :)
hello, could you please explain in a video the origin of those trampolines (here at 10:03) that are to be found in nearly all Icelandic villages (at least that was my impression during my roundtrip). 😄 sending my best regards from hungary
I named one of my goats Katla.
The hottest goat name I've ever heard :)
i visited in 2018 had a really good meal of Arctic Char
Rarely fails :) and greetings from Iceland :)
Jeez!
This is more of a problem than you are saying.
The Iceland Plume, we now know is just a small mid mantle sidebranch of the Greenland Plume! Which is like a giant canon right across the strait behind Helheim Glacier pointing at you.
The connected system is hydraulic-supercritical/explosive pneumatic in nature.
A helluva lot more Volcanic activy is now occurring under the Greenland ice cap than in all of Iceland. If you are getting earthquakes
And earthquakes in September October mean that your Volcanic systems are getting triggered by Greenland Volcanism also peaking in September October.
Vik.. The location of the series "Katla" - oy....
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Beautiful video. I like your honesty. Just a little shaky……
Thanks for watching!
Kelvin? Did I get your name right?
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No :) it's Gylfi
@@JustIcelandic Sorry for butchering your name Gylfi (Kelvin) 🤦♂️😂
Such a great video, nature rules (literally) ❤️
Beautiful is spelled wrong in your thumbnail
Iceland has all the fun.
May be time to sacrifice some tourists to the angry volcano gods to appease them.
Maybe its the reason its not erupted for over 100 yrs.....
Oh, the Myrdal in Norway is mountainous, not swampy. I guess the name just looks the same, but has no common origin.
Wow - in spite of its natural beauty, I also would not want to invest money in land or a home there, at the foot of a volcano long overdue to erupt. Rent, maybe.
There is a need to proof your content before posting.
You’ve obviously put in a great deal of effort with research and creating interesting content.
Have you noticed that the graphics on the title shot reads BEUTIFUL and not BEAUTIFUL.
The devil is in the detail.
Make your content.
Leave it for a few hours and then watch before posting
Any errors will immediately stand out to you
Will save you the Oh No moment