Heimaklettur (Home Rock)

Heimaklettur Hike, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland | Best Day Hike on the Westman Islands

The Heimaklettur Hike (Home Rock) is the best day hike in the Westman Islands of Iceland. This beautiful hike takes you up to the top of Heimaklettur for an amazing view over the island of Heimaey. If you only have one day in the Westman Islands, this is one of the best things to do.

You get a 360 view of the island. On a sunny day you can see all the way to the mainland. The Heimaklettur Hike takes about 2 hours to complete and is relatively easy aside from the chain holds, ropes and ladders. Don’t try this hike if you are afraid of heights or aren’t confident scrambling. Take 1L of water and a picnic to enjoy the views at the top.

Heimaey Island, Iceland

A beautiful flight around the Heimaey Island off the coast of Iceland. Heimaey, literally Home Island, is an Icelandic island. At 13.4 square kilometres, it is the largest island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, and the largest and most populated island off the Icelandic coast

Iceland - Heimaey and the Westman Islands

First small video about our trip to Iceland. Discover Heimaey and the Westman Islands! More on the blog:

Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland - Fireworks in the sky, above and below

The first New Years Eve firework on Heimaey, while the last sunset of the year is simultaneously blasting fireworks in the sky. View from the top of Heimaklettur. See how to get there on:

Hiking session in the Westman Islands (Iceland)

Hiking session in the Westman Islands (Iceland), 2016
Musique: Riptide - Vance Joy (Cover by Jasmine Thompson)

Bjarnarey Puffin Island

Our Bjarnarey Puffin Island tour is an unforgettable adventure in the scenic Westman Islands nature. Explore the wonderful island and its puffin colony in this guided, whole-day tour.

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Seabirds and Cliff Adventures

Music: hooksounds.com

Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) Heimaey

One Day tour to Heimaey (Home Island) in Westman Islands in Iceland. Mainly Eldfell new mountain (of fire) erupted in 1973.
I took the morning 10AM Ferry and Back at 16:00 without the car. So on Islan I am only by Foot.
I mainly toured Eldfell, the new mountain that almost covered the hoses in 1973 eruption (some remote houses it did cover).
At the end of the video there is a nice view of the beach near the golf field, I saw few Puffins.

Music YouTube Audio Library
Getting There - Silent Parner
BirdBrainz - Otis McDonald
Jupiter One -Riot
Cue - Silent Parner
Retreat - Jason Farnham
Beach Disco -Dougie Wood

Vestmannaeyjar - Eldheimar

VLOG11:Visit Westman Islands | Best kept secret in Iceland‎

The Westman Islands, or Vestmannaeyjar, are an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland. Aside from their incredible natural beauty, the islands have the world’s largest population of nesting puffins in summer, and a fascinating history.

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Ferry to Vestmannaeyjar - Views of Heimaey

Vestmannaeyjar Islands: Exploring Heimaey

Our first full day off the Laugavegur trail in Iceland we took a ferry out to Heimaey Island, part of the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. This was the best Friday the 13th I've ever had. It started out getting to see Elephant rock, climbing Eldfell (the volcano that caused a full evacuation of the island in '73), and checking out the Beluga whale sanctuary. Then out of nowhere I got the chance of a lifetime to release a puffling back into the wild!!!

NOTE: First attempt at narrating, so feedback is welcome. I do know the audio is muddled since I had to cut out my houses furnace and background noise.

Vestmannaeyjar - Guðjón Hjörleifsson

Eldheimar - Copy.m4v

Myndbandið sýnir hugmyndafræði sýningarskála sem fyrirhugað er að byggja í Vestmanneyjum utan um gosmynjar sem grafnar verða upp. Verkefni hefur haft vinnutitilinn Pompai norðursins en er nú kallað Eldheimar.

Byggingin sem slík er sýningarmaskína sem hjálpar sýningargestum að sjá og upplifa Heimaeyjagosið 1973.

Bygginginn er hugsuð sem einföld, náttúruleg (efnisnotkun) og hrá (efnisnotkun), þar sem að allur galdurinn, allt púðrið er þegar til staðar.

Gert er ráð fyrir að verklegar framkvæmdir hefjist sumar 2012 og þeim ljúki 2014.

BONUS: The Making of Eldheimar's Audio Guide

Bonus! I go behind-the-scenes with Locatify's Steinunn Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir to talk about the making of Eldheimar's location-aware audio guide app (E19: Memorial to an Eruption). We chat about how Locatify joined the Eldheimar project, the beacon technology used in Eldheimar, and their new hyper-precise ultra-wideband system for museum apps.

Locatify is an Icelandic software company specializing in mobile apps that use location technologies for Immersive audio guides, treasure hunt games, Augmented Reality and indoor GPS.

Iceland rope swing

Video from James Joyce

Midnight Sun in Iceland

This is what the midnight sun in Iceland looks like... Luminous clouds & pink skies throughout the night - during the 3 hours that the sun is below the horizon. It's like fiery red & orange northern lights! Solstice night (20-21 June 2018) at around 01.30 hrs on the top of Heimaklettur, with an amazing view to Eyjafjallajökull across on the other side.

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New land on the Island of Vestmannaeyjar

Why new land is being created so far away from the spreading ridge.

Iceland Geology #5 - 20 Years After The Mega Disaster in Vestmannaeyjar

Click on CC for subtitles in English but this is a part of documentary that was made 20 years after the Vestmannaeyjar eruption in 1973 and describes how the inhabitants worked their way from the shock and rebuilt the island. There is lots of footage on Youtube that covers this issue but only partially available in English so I'm hoping that this will provide some puzzles into the whole picture for those who share my interest in mega disasters.

The population in Vestmannaeyjar is however still less than before the eruption or around 4500 but over 5000 people lived there in 1973. The tourist business is blooming but they excavated some houses from the lava and show now how cruelly nature treated the homes of so many islanders.



I hope you enjoy this short lesson in the history of Iceland and urge you to subscribe since it's my plan to keep on translating remarkable local footage that has never been available before. I'm also using my channel go over geological unrest as it happens, and unique footage as things happen at any given time.

Iceland - Wild camping and watching lots of waterfalls. April 20-25, 2017

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Wild camping in Icelands feels like an adventure. Searching each afternoon for the right place to setup the tent.

B&B in Reykjanesbær. Seljalandsfoss 65 m (213 ft) waterfall. Skógafoss waterfall, 60 m (196 ft). abandoned DC plane wreck on the beach. Hálsanefshellir. Wild camping in tent in Grafarkirkja next to the Stjórnarfoss. Stjórnarfoss waterfall. Skeiðará bridge monument. Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon with seals. Foss á Siðu waterfall 30 m (98 ft). tent at Heiðmerkurvegur Reykjavik. Elliðavatn lake. run the half marathon Reykjavik. Laugardalslaug swimpool in Reykjavik. Hvalfjarðargöng tunnel. Bjarnarfoss. Kirkjufell nearby Grundarfjörður. Kirkjufellsfoss. the bridge at Grundarfjördur over the Kolgrafafjörður. tent at Botnsdalur directly next to the Botnsá river. Botnsdalur is a shallow valley. Múlafjall Mt. Þingvellir National Park 2 continental plates. Lögberg (The Law Rock). Þingvellir manorhouse. Þingvellir church. Þingvallavatn lake (63.852739, -17.839076). Strokkur Geysir. Gullfoss. Faxifoss. Kerið crater lake. tent at Tumastadaskógur Tumastaðir.
Ferry Landeyjarhöfn to Vestmannaeyjar (Heimæy Westman islands). Hike/Climb up the Heimaklettur cliff (Home Rock). Stafkirkjan church. Harpa concert. Sólfarið the ‘sun voyager’.

Interview with the Director of Eldheimar museum about 1973

Interview with Kristin Johannsdottir from Eldheimar museum