All the photos except for the first one are taken in Elliðaárdalur.
It’s quite difficult to locate the first one. Keflavík would be too far away for this perspective. Also, due to the fact that there’s a seawall there I doubt you’re looking at the city from the south (vast majority of the seawalls in the capital area are along the northern coast of Reykjavík) [https://imgur.com/a/4fsZw74](https://imgur.com/a/4fsZw74). The mountains in the back could also indicate the photo is taken facing SE. Of course given the fact that this photo would be of Reykjavík (too pixelated to make it out).
The first photo is from Keflavík overlooking Njarðvík. You could not see Reykjavík in this weather but on clear days you can see it from there if you would look more left.
Hi. There are some specific laws about scattering ashes in Iceland.
Would recommend looking at https://island.is/dreifing-osku ( you can use translate in browser to get it in English)
I just saw your other thread so wanted to post a little help.
It’s not easy to get permission to scatter ashes in Iceland so make sure to talk to the district commissioner. The river in Elliðaárdalur is a protected salmon fishing river so I highly doubt you’ll get to scatter ashes there. In fact as far as I’m aware you’re only allowed to scatter the ashes into the sea or over an arid area. So by the sea in Keflavík works at least (first picture).
My brother passed away last year in Spain and was cremated there. When I brought his ashes back to Iceland I had to get special permission from the Reykjavík district commissioner to keep the urn with us and not in a funeral home as we had a non religious ceremony for him and wanted the urn there.
By the way, his ceremony was conducted by a volunteer from the Humanists of Iceland. Their website is https://www.sidmennt.is/en/ They are basically an Atheist organization staffed by volunteers. Could be an idea for you to contact them if your son wasn’t religious.
We buried his urn and ashes in Sólland (Sun Land) which is a beautiful small-plot cemetery in Reykjavík specially for urns. ([Here are some pictures of it from an architectural company](https://tst.is/en/project/solland-duftgardur/))
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To many trees for Keflavík
Like others have pointed out. You are only allowed to scatter ashes into the sea or on the Highlands. Here is a link to the place where the first picture was taken in Keflavík
You’d be allowed to scatter the ashes into the sea there I suppose
Second image is of a little picnic place, cords are 64.121064,-21.845611
Edit: the place is called Búrfoss
I might be wrong but I think spreading ashes is illegal in iceland so you might want to double check that or make sure no one sees 🤫
Edit 2: it is infact very illegal to spread ashes in iceland
The 1st one is in Keflavík. It’s part of a walking path just up of the main port in Keflavik (not to be confused with the Njarðvík port or the small boat port in Keflavík).
Just to emphasize the other comments mentioning this; PLEASE don’t scatter his ashes anywhere without permission. I’m sure he wouldn’t appreciate you honoring his life by potentially doing damage to the nature and wildlife here.
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That’s Elliðaárdalur in Reykjavík
All the photos except for the first one are taken in Elliðaárdalur.
It’s quite difficult to locate the first one. Keflavík would be too far away for this perspective. Also, due to the fact that there’s a seawall there I doubt you’re looking at the city from the south (vast majority of the seawalls in the capital area are along the northern coast of Reykjavík) [https://imgur.com/a/4fsZw74](https://imgur.com/a/4fsZw74). The mountains in the back could also indicate the photo is taken facing SE. Of course given the fact that this photo would be of Reykjavík (too pixelated to make it out).
The first photo is from Keflavík overlooking Njarðvík. You could not see Reykjavík in this weather but on clear days you can see it from there if you would look more left.
[This](https://www.google.com/maps/@64.0002883,-22.5417731,78m/data=!3m1!1e3) is the place where the first photo is taken, in Kelflavik
Hi. There are some specific laws about scattering ashes in Iceland.
Would recommend looking at https://island.is/dreifing-osku ( you can use translate in browser to get it in English)
I just saw your other thread so wanted to post a little help.
It’s not easy to get permission to scatter ashes in Iceland so make sure to talk to the district commissioner. The river in Elliðaárdalur is a protected salmon fishing river so I highly doubt you’ll get to scatter ashes there. In fact as far as I’m aware you’re only allowed to scatter the ashes into the sea or over an arid area. So by the sea in Keflavík works at least (first picture).
My brother passed away last year in Spain and was cremated there. When I brought his ashes back to Iceland I had to get special permission from the Reykjavík district commissioner to keep the urn with us and not in a funeral home as we had a non religious ceremony for him and wanted the urn there.
By the way, his ceremony was conducted by a volunteer from the Humanists of Iceland. Their website is https://www.sidmennt.is/en/ They are basically an Atheist organization staffed by volunteers. Could be an idea for you to contact them if your son wasn’t religious.
We buried his urn and ashes in Sólland (Sun Land) which is a beautiful small-plot cemetery in Reykjavík specially for urns. ([Here are some pictures of it from an architectural company](https://tst.is/en/project/solland-duftgardur/))
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To many trees for Keflavík
Like others have pointed out. You are only allowed to scatter ashes into the sea or on the Highlands. Here is a link to the place where the first picture was taken in Keflavík
[https://ja.is/kort/?x=326722&y=393402&nz=17.09&type=aerialnl&ja360=1&jh=135.8](https://ja.is/kort/?x=326722&y=393402&nz=17.09&type=aerialnl&ja360=1&jh=135.8)
You’d be allowed to scatter the ashes into the sea there I suppose
Second image is of a little picnic place, cords are 64.121064,-21.845611
Edit: the place is called Búrfoss
I might be wrong but I think spreading ashes is illegal in iceland so you might want to double check that or make sure no one sees 🤫
Edit 2: it is infact very illegal to spread ashes in iceland
The 1st one is in Keflavík. It’s part of a walking path just up of the main port in Keflavik (not to be confused with the Njarðvík port or the small boat port in Keflavík).
Just to emphasize the other comments mentioning this; PLEASE don’t scatter his ashes anywhere without permission. I’m sure he wouldn’t appreciate you honoring his life by potentially doing damage to the nature and wildlife here.