"Even in the Dark Fortress, people are born and get married and die."

[larryhammer]

I mentioned Dimmuborgir ("Dark Fortress") a couple times in my Iceland posts, but failed to describe it well -- a vast field of gnarly black volcanic pillars and ridges and shelves. The sort of rocks that look like trolls who didn't get home before sunrise. Nor did we take particularly good pictures.

Here are some better ones, from strangie23's vacation/wedding/honeymoon photo album. Yes, they got married in Dimmuborgir. In a lava tube cave. I'm jealous. That's even better than getting a marriage license at the bail window of the county jail.

(Link from iceland_pix.)

---L.

Comments

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Thanks Larry. I have added all of the links to by Travel favorites. Perhaps someday I will go. Looks great.

[larryhammer]

Check out the photos of Akureyri, too. Lovely small city.

---L.

[sovay]

Nor did we take particularly good pictures.

I disagree; some of those are fantastic.

[larryhammer]

The Dimmuborgir pictures in particular failed to capture the feel of the place -- especialyl compared to those wedding pictures. THOSE took me back.

---L.

[sovay]

Well, I have never been to Dimmuborgir; so I found the photographs beautiful. They look like pictures of some otherworld.

[larryhammer]

It is very otherworldly.

We never scanned them, but Janni's photos of Eldfell, which erupted thirty years before, also had that feel.

---L.