A journey in Iceland/1 ( the journey it's not mine, this is just a translation) In 2000 I had the chance to make the journey that I longed from a long time. I could say it was a travel through time because the nature of that places remind places that could exist millions of year ago. If a dinosaur popped out it would not be out of place. As the name suggest in Iceland there is plenty of glaciers and between them the biggest in Europe... but it's less known that Iceland is dotted with volcanoes. Often they look just as hills but from the outline you soon realize that are something different.The geological activity is well far off, there is a seething of geysers, vapor vents, gushes and melting salts that dye the ground with every color. On a magazine I found out a travel agency that made me curious because they mainly arranged naturalistic trips focused on volcanoes. I came to know that they were a group of young graduated in geology and this for my idea of a trip in Iceland would have been perfect. In a hurry I called the agency and yes it was what we were looking for, namely not a tour close to the sea around Iceland but the crossing of the island through the central and often desertic central part, with accomodation in tents. We flew from Miland to Reykjavik where we met our fellow travellers then after a stop off in the city we flew in Egilsstadir. Here we had supplied and rented the cross-country vehicles then the actual trip started. Here I warn those willing to do such a journey that it's expensive but it would be even more expensive to use our own cars becuase the Iceland's tariff on foregn cars are outrageously high. Left Egilsstadir in the afternoon we went to the beach for a first glimpse to the seals. Later on we arranged to set up the tents in our first camp. This first contact with camping was harsh because the tents almost floated on the awash grass, but fortunately we had a stock of plastic sheets and we could insulate the bottom of the tents. The day after we moved to Dettifoss, a place famous for his waterfall and caves.