Ósar and Borgarvirki

The eastern coast of the Vatnsnes Peninsula has a couple worthwhile places to stop. At Ósar, there’s a seal colony which lives on a sandbank just across a narrow stretch of water. And the incredible Viking-era fort at Borgarvirki offers interesting history and a fantastic view of the region.

Borgarvirki

It was an extremely windy afternoon, and we feared that the seal colony which lives at Ósar wouldn’t be home. At first, these fears were borne out — we hiked about fifteen minutes down to the sh...