Description:

Hardly anywhere else in the world as the geologically young as in Iceland: Volcanoes, geysers, glaciers, where you look. Right in the middle, a 15-year-old girl with her enduro moped. Together with their parents on big trail bikes, she fights over the runs and learn for life.


It is their first big tour. Laura wants to go once around Iceland. What makes this project: Laura is just 15 years old and you bike has 3.7 hp. A Simson enduro, moped as permitted officially top 25 km / h. Mother and father accompanied with big bikes. Gravel, river crossings, mud and sand. Laura has never experienced before. If something goes wrong here more often, it is doubtful whether the motorcycle bug does not leave the girl again and loses the two-wheeler scene a promising junior. Thus doth the little family does not rush and proposes to her tent at Lagarfljot. Why not climb the high, narrow waterfall Hengifoss? This is the ideal acclimatization: Impressively, the red sediment layers in Lavahintergrund and the striking Litanefoss that something crashed into the depths below. He is surrounded by beautiful, long basalt formations.

After the enforced break, the three go to the south. Two cyclists follow
and it regularly gets over the “break-hopping”. Then the branch to the first high-country run, the Oxi. Getting started is not easy, but Laura decides: By! A decision which is certainly influenced by the fact that it has shortened just 60 kilometers. The trail provides magnificent views of the rocky, rugged highlands. After a short time, a steep descent on gravel. Laura also creates the challenge, and compensated the wide view in the fjord for the stress. Parents are the pride of his face.

The Sims is 40th speedo Nevertheless, it eventually reaches the glacier Jokulsarlon lagoon. Sky blue icebergs break off from the glacier of Vatnajokull and floating in the crystal clear water into the Atlantic. On the west bank will be camped in front of incredibly beautiful scenery, and the whole family can be the seminal, sing dripping ice to sleep. Frisch ask rested mother and father the next day after the date of the plan’s daughter: Nothing! She wants to chill! The previous day was too tiring. That is to go into the air, but in the literal sense.

All travel to a small airport and fly over the largest glacier in Europe:

Ice, as far as the eye. Just look at the Caldera (“Shell”) of the 2000 erupted Grimsvotn. Then, the pilot steers the Laki volcano in column. 1783 broke them out on a length of 25 kilometers and eight months spat lava and ash. At that time, 130 craters and cones were created, destroyed the country and caused a terrible famine. At the end of the heavenly pleasure of gliding across the gravel plain Skeiðarársandur under the twin-engine plane. Fascinated regarded Laura as the many glacial rivers meander into the sea.

The next day the two-wheelers are taken to task. The scheduled stopover Svartivoss short of the three, simply drive past in their Entschleunigungsrausch. Now back again? No, because Laura is exhausted and can be placed back on a ticket-voting Mung only with a giant hamburger. The village Vik compensated for the stress and the family may look at the puffins breeding business. Further, the experience of the slowness goes to Skogafoss. Then the waterfall Seljalandsfoss: you can walk behind the current and watch from all sides, as masses of water raining down into a round, green pool. The next goal is Hveragerdi. A few miles earlier, the traffic increased dramatically. From the three Selfoss a real impediment to traffic and leave shortly thereafter facilitated the ring road 1 On a beautiful course on the lukewarm river they hit their camp. All around the mountains evaporate.

In the morning they arrive after a short hike, the high temperature region Hengill. You can not miss it. The sulfur smell is noticeable from afar. There, at the confluence of a hot and cold flow, is bathed and fueled power for the next stage. This leads to Landmannalaugar. The way is still to Laura with her Simson too difficult. On steep climbs and fist-sized ballast stones takes her father Samson, because the ground Laura forced repeatedly into a horizontal position: “The moped does not want the way I want,” she says, annoyed that they did not make it. After a further slipping rear wheel and a disappointed and desperate to kick on her moped is Laura. Her eyes filled with tears, came to their limits. The parents comfort and reassure the daughter that she had previously made great achievements. Does the rest of the geyser Strokkur. Every ten minutes, shooting a 20 to 30 meters high hot water fountain in the sky. If that’s no consolation.

Day, the stage is probably the heaviest on the plan. Stop at Gullfoss, then comes the Kjolur highland slopes. The further one goes into it, the worse is the corrugated iron, but Laura is progressing without problems. A short time later, she copes with her first river crossing. The parents look confused. Laura tears of joy over his fist high.

The geothermal Hveravellir is determined by geysers and solfataras (steam and gas leaks). It hisses and bubbles everywhere. Laura is resting on the “jackhammer slope” from. leave after a few days of recovery, the family of the highlands and head towards the north. Laura masters slopes and gravel now as nimble as a gazelle. At Myvatn midges stop will be made. Craters, ash and sulfur springs rings – the three go through the middle. By now all know that Laura will remain the motorcycle scene.