Here’s two approaches to taking your own accommodation on a camping holiday in Iceland.
We had a tent. On the ground. We were travelling in my parents’ Saab.
Iceland is a country where four wheel drive and a good ground clearance are necessary, or at least very helpful, for a good many routes. There were a couple of places where getting the Saab through was a bit doubtful – and we didn’t tackle any but the fairly major routes.
The Unimog has bigger wheels and far bigger ground clearance than the Landrover – and correspondingly is able to tackle much rougher country. A Unimog figures prominently in my novel, Going Forth – but that one doesn’t have a caravan body on the back!
These days you’re not allowed to drive off-road in Iceland, because of the damage done to the fragile ecosystems, which take decades to recover. But even some of the roads would be hard going in a Landie.
Location: a campsite at Egilstaðir. Year: 1982.
©Clive K Semmens 1982