North Iceland's Best-Kept Secret: A Traveler's Guide to Troll Peninsula

[@janiniceland]

🚨My NEW Troll Peninsula Guide is out now! : www.janiniceland.com/troll-peninsula ✌

[@katesommerville7217]

Stunning, I would love to visit the north ❤

[@janiniceland]

Glad you like it Kate :) I can definitely recommend it and also will be posting some more videos from this place again in the future

[@PrinceofMacedonVlogs]

this is exactly the video I needed to find. I've been looking for videos on that northwestern part of Iceland that gets neglected so much. I want to stop here and see the local sights

[@janiniceland]

You should :) it is a great place to visit 🙏🏻

[@turfblacksmith]

Wow, I'm going to book another trip over to there in 24', definitely coming to your neck of the woods after watching this

[@janiniceland]

100% recommended!

[@dietergraser3640]

Love these Fjords since 35 years and feel kind of home in Skiðadalur. Used to visit this Valley every year and even some times in winter for skitouring. Now I work in summer as a tour guide of the ship you filmed at Sigluðörður. Picures full of memories! Thank you for this.

[@janiniceland]

It is a magical place, even though I am looking and Skíðadalur every day from a window I still have to pinch myself sometimes how beautiful this place is. We didn't meet at the cruise ship by any chance did we?

[@nunorocha6279]

Jan thanks for the cool new places that i expect to visit in two weeks!

[@janiniceland]

I'm glad it's helpful :) have great time exploring Tröllaskagi!

[@fannyandersson3330]

So beautiful place! I love the northern and east part of Iceland best. I hope to come back to Iceland soon and then I will spend most of my stay there. So I hope you will create more videos from these parts of Iceland. 😃👍

[@janiniceland]

I sure will! :) To be honest I still have to go and explore east. It is such a beautiful part and I only went there once in the winter. But I am looking forward to go deeper into the corners of the region I haven't visited, exploring and seeing places for the first time is the best!

[@MatthijsvanSantendeHoog]

Thanks for the beautiful and inspiring video. Just one remark: A few weeks ago, I was at the start of the hiking trail of Hraunsvatn, but it's now closed. There's a big locked fence where I met the owner of the land, claiming that the whole area is private property. He was not unfriendly, but made clear that they don't want tourists on their land.

[@janiniceland]

@@MatthijsvanSantendeHoog thank you! Interesting - Did you go to the farm I have in the video or the other one? (Blue roof i think)

[@janiniceland]

@@MatthijsvanSantendeHoog with that said according to icelandic right to roam law he has no right to stop hikers from /crossing the land as long it’s unciltivated…but then who would want to argue..

[@MatthijsvanSantendeHoog]

@@janiniceland Thanks for your reply. Yeah I think it was the one with the blue roof, directly behind the bridge over the river. I did not know about the right to roam. So it's the same as in Norway? Interesting. Next time, I'll bring that up ;-)

[@janiniceland]

@@MatthijsvanSantendeHoog honestly I think that many locals don’t know about it either haha. Still did you manage to hike there from the other farm?

[@MatthijsvanSantendeHoog]

Ha, maybe so. No, actually, I was on a bikepacking trip across Iceland and I cycled to the next location: all the way to the beach at the end of the F839, Fjörður Valley. Do you know that place? Highly recommended, totally alone.

[@benburns5995]

Hi Jan, thanks for this video highlighting the Troll Peninsula in Iceland. I would have a hard time picking a favorite as I thought each area was beautiful in it's own way. Really enjoyed seeing the Oldest Church in Iceland from above with your drone. With the grass on the roof it definitely blends in with the landscape surrounding it. Do you know if the church is still used today for services? I thought you had a nice variety of buildings, mountains, landscape and bodies of water in the video. I've heard of people going Whale watching in Iceland so it was nice seeing the whale footage as well. Enjoyed hearing you pronounce the town names as it would be challenging and require a lot of practice for a foreigner to pronounce them. When I found your channel and subscribed, several weeks ago, you had around 600 subs so congrats on growing your channel to 4,100.

[@janiniceland]

Hello Ben and thank you for sharing your thoughts! Regarding the use of the church, I think that it might be used on special occasions, but as of now it is closed to public. But at least you can still walk around and take a peak inside. I'm not 100% sure about my pronunciation as icelandic is very far from my mother tongue and so it is still challenging at times 😀

[@movemodule1884]

Hey Jan great video, i was trying to check out the bnb but the link isn't working :(

[@janiniceland]

Glad you like the video and thank you for letting me know about the link! It's fixed now. Try this here :) : bit.ly/airbnbtrollaskagi

[@peterkirkaldy9017]

Very beautiful area! We've seen southern Iceland, and would like to see the northern part also. Thanks!

[@janiniceland]

Thank you for sharing Peter! South is indeed a must see for first time visits and I'm sure you'll like it here in the North as well :)

[@mariyakalynyuk162]

I want to see all of this 😊

[@janiniceland]

and it's just a flight away :)

[@thespikemotivation]

I am glad i have been to most you mentioned 😊

[@janiniceland]

Do you have a favourite one? :)

[@wendypilateschallengefitne5118]

This looks amazing. How long would you suggest to do it justice and really explore.

[@janiniceland]

It really depends. If you're here in the summer when days are long, I'm sure you can do it even in one day. But if you also want to do some hiking, whale watching and take it slow you can spend here even multiple days. The longest that I had guests stay at my airbnb here was 5 days I think and they really loved the area. Sweet spot is probably 2 nights - in scenario that 1st day you're checking-in in the late afternoon or evening hours, next day full day exploring, 2nd night and then you'll be driving the rest of peninsula and continue to your next destination.

[@wendypilateschallengefitne5118]

@@janiniceland Thank you so much. Would you send me the link to your air BnB please I couldn't see it ( probably my error). It will be summer.

[@janiniceland]

Here it is : bit.ly/airbnbtröllaskagi The bookings aren't open yet but once you know the date you can also send me request there and I will make it available :)@@wendypilateschallengefitne5118

[@bobcat6653]

This is a great video to help with my May 2024 2 week long visit to Iceland, thank you so much! This peninsula was already in my plans, for sure, but this video helped a lot!

[@janiniceland]

I'm so glad to hear this is helpful! May here beautiful, it is already a bit warmer but there's still some snow covering the mountains, so that makes for some great views :)

[@RobertMintonPhotography]

Hello Jan, looks stunning. We are coming to Husavik next March, it looks like the two locations are not too far apart. Hope to pay a visit.

[@janiniceland]

I think it's worth it if you have some extra time :) But Húsavík is really beautiful and there are some great photo locations around that area, too

[@RobertMintonPhotography]

@janiniceland thanks Jan, i must admit until I checked on Google maps I didn't realise the distance! It doesn't look far if you look at a map. Anyway, keep up the good work, i enjoy your no B.S. videos.

[@je4777]

Wow Jan, you are so unbelievable lucky to live in such a stunning part of the world.

[@janiniceland]

I can't complain, it is a paradise indeed :)

[@je4777]

@janiniceland I wish I'd traveled there when i was backpacking around Europr in 2010

[@janiniceland]

I am sure it was less busy in 2010 than it is now, but if you decide to come here sometimes, it is still very much worth it :) @@je4777

[@je4777]

What are your thoughts on the sentiment in A Salmon Nation?

[@janiniceland]

I just think it is great to see the effort to fight against big corporations taking advantage of Iceland's resources, it is something that's a real problem, but not many people know about this. I'd like to do a whole video on this topic in the future, too @@je4777

[@ondablv]

Nice video!!

[@janiniceland]

Thank you! :)

[@yvonnevandermeer8471]

Hello Jan, beautiful. I’ve been in June 2022 in Iceland with a photography trip and we visit Drangy and make beautiful pictures off the Puffins and we dit a whale tour from Dalvik and saw whales. We drove a route to the North and through the inland back to the south. So a nice country is Iceland. I’ve been there 3 times now. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@janiniceland]

Hello Yvonne, thank you for sharing your experience. Drangey is amazing, I am hoping to revisit next summer. Do you remember which road did you drive? I've been to highlands before but still haven't done the whole drive North to South.

[@intrepedo100]

Jan- very nice videos. Now looking at a driving trip there. Your English is impressive. Just a note - the plural for sheep is sheep. All the best- will watch more of your videos.

[@janiniceland]

thank you so much! Funny I think you're like 3rd person that mentioned it under my videos, but somehow I still managed to repeat the same mistake in the video I now have exported and ready for an upload. Maybe 4th time's a charm haha!

[@intrepedo100]

@@janiniceland as a native speaker I am amazed that others can lean the English language. It often doesn’t make sense. Did you know that a castrated Ram is a weather. So you could say. I am not sure whether the weathers will go out in this weather.

[@lechugool]

Hi Jan , i am in the north now, out of the places you showed , would you recommend a nice hike trail now in the winter?

[@janiniceland]

Hello! The tricky part in this period now is that there's a snow everywhere (especially in Tröllaskagi i would say) and so it can be unsafe to hike without a proper gear. I don't know what it looks like there now, but maybe if you drive past Húsavík there could be less snow, but I don't know any hiking routes there that could be accessible. It's more about walks along the coast and exploring. There's a big black sand beach too near Ásbyrgi canyon.

[@jeffdale1828]

Trip booked for September 13th-22nd 2025 and alone, should I drive during this time or try to do tours etc... My first trip

[@Adventuredad207]

Jan, what month do you recommend to come and do spring skiing?

[@janiniceland]

Hi Zach, it really depends on the season, but I would say April/May. In my opinion the longer you can delay it, the better - we sometimes have these freeze cycles that can turn everything into a concrete for even a week if the snow gets wet and then the temperature stay low, but closer to the end of the season the better the chances of soft spring snow every day. But again, it depends on how much snow we get each year, by the looks of it now, this season for example will be probably a shorter one.

[@stevefoster1511]

So glad we visited there in 2017. While we’ve been back to Iceland 4 times since, we’ve not made it back. We plan to change that in 2025.

[@janiniceland]

ha that's when I moved here, crazy how time flies. Hope you will get to visit in 2025 :)

[@rileyuktv6426]

First ❤

[@ErnieKings27]

I guess given the current situation the way to go is north

[@janiniceland]

I haven't done the update video on this yet, but the likelihood of an eruption is slowly decreasing. There's still a chance this could change at any day but things seem to be relatively safe right now