I also recommend to ask someone local before going on the opinion on the current road conditions (whether it rained too much or not).

It’s considered at least a medium-sized river crossing and can become a bigger one when it rains a lot. That being said, the road is so bumpy, we better recommend a car with high enough ground clearance, i. We drove the 832 – Vaðlaheiðarvegur with our Dacia Duster 4×4 rental this 1 september and we found it really easy to drive this road. Alternatively, you may just drive very slowly to take care and not damage the undercarriage of your car.That being said, you still have to adhere to river crossing guidelines and better have some experience with river crossings already. There are also pretty big holes in the road, even our modified Land Cruiser struggled at times when we drove the road. In the eastfjords, we even went on that one tiny F-road along the powerlines (I forgot the name) and saw beautiful waterfalls and a rainbow that I doubt many others have seen together before.

For example if we want to visit the Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall will the F26 be fully closed or will we be able to drive from the road 842 and drive those 4 kilometers on the F26? It was a short part of the road of the length of a few hundreds of meters heading to a hot spring spot in Snæfellsnes peninsula ( Lýsuhólslaug). It’s also better to gain experience with river crossings on different, less challenging, F-roads and then come back to drive this one. Sydri Ofaera river with some powerful streams crosses the road and the snow usually holds longer in this area, which means Álftavatnskrókur is passable only for a limited time of a year. If you don’t know the river you are crossing, or if you are just inexperienced, you should take enough time to examine the river.However, under good weather conditions and when the snow is already melted it’s more or less an easy 4wd drive.

I spent almost a month planning the two-week trip, and I read two books completely and scoured thousands of google earth photospheres and online resources.It is possible to tour the Ring Road in 7 days, but in that case you have to be quite strict with where you stop or not,

The last river crossing is one of the most treacherous and challenging moments you will encounter on Icelandic roads. Sage pay is also audited annually under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) and is a fully approved Level 1 payment services provider, which is the highest level of compliance. You can be completely assured that nothing we pass to Sage Pay’s servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information. It’s based upon both personal experiences with driving the roads and extensive studying of other travelers’ experiences.

The most difficult part is the last kilometer, which makes for a very steep final ascent toward the Hekla volcano.