After a 7 hour flight from Vancouver to Reykavik, Iceland, we arrived. We pick up our very old car, after spending 2,000ISK on a taxi ride from the airport...ouch we thought, this country is expensive. The car, a little on the elderly side, was cheap and cheapful and we were excited to explore the barren land of Iceland. The fog was intense as we drove towards the city centre, so bad that we had to slow down to a minimal to see the road.
We drove to our couchsurfing hosts place, Kevin from USA and settled in, shattered and excited for our trip, Kevin is studying soils and telecommunications here and has recently trekked to the eruption site with incredible pictures for evidence. Unfortunately, Kevin's place is a one bedroom studio so we are couchsurfing floor style but it works out well enough.
Our first day was spent in the famous Blue Lagoon, the must do thing in Iceland. A large area of geothermal steam and water which actually is the waste recycled from the local geothermal power plant. The spa, was incredible, lush turquiose blue coloured hot water with mud all over the pool bed. We covered ourselves in mud and relaxed in the water for hours. Thoroughly deserved and required. Relaxed and daydreaming about our surroundings, we were very quiet the next 45kms into town until the car woke us up with a chudder,chudder and yes you guessed it, we broke down....luckily our car rental place rescued us after asking a local Icelandic girl to call the company for us and describe where we were!
After a sound sleep, and a trip to the local supermarket for food, day 2 arrived. Today was epic. Iceland is epic. We drove through incredible and unbelievable landscapes, lava covered views with mountains rising through the clouds. The weather was cloudy and raining, but it didnt scupper our enthusiasm for the day. We visited all the usual tourist spots, the fault line between north america and europe, the geysir that explodes every 10 minutes high into the sky, the largest waterfall in Iceland with epic proportions, geothermal activity everywhere we looked, mountains and volcanoes and some extremely old viking ruins. A long, 300kms drive round trip and worth every km. The landscape is incredible and something that everyone should see. What a country.
We drove to our couchsurfing hosts place, Kevin from USA and settled in, shattered and excited for our trip, Kevin is studying soils and telecommunications here and has recently trekked to the eruption site with incredible pictures for evidence. Unfortunately, Kevin's place is a one bedroom studio so we are couchsurfing floor style but it works out well enough.
Our first day was spent in the famous Blue Lagoon, the must do thing in Iceland. A large area of geothermal steam and water which actually is the waste recycled from the local geothermal power plant. The spa, was incredible, lush turquiose blue coloured hot water with mud all over the pool bed. We covered ourselves in mud and relaxed in the water for hours. Thoroughly deserved and required. Relaxed and daydreaming about our surroundings, we were very quiet the next 45kms into town until the car woke us up with a chudder,chudder and yes you guessed it, we broke down....luckily our car rental place rescued us after asking a local Icelandic girl to call the company for us and describe where we were!
After a sound sleep, and a trip to the local supermarket for food, day 2 arrived. Today was epic. Iceland is epic. We drove through incredible and unbelievable landscapes, lava covered views with mountains rising through the clouds. The weather was cloudy and raining, but it didnt scupper our enthusiasm for the day. We visited all the usual tourist spots, the fault line between north america and europe, the geysir that explodes every 10 minutes high into the sky, the largest waterfall in Iceland with epic proportions, geothermal activity everywhere we looked, mountains and volcanoes and some extremely old viking ruins. A long, 300kms drive round trip and worth every km. The landscape is incredible and something that everyone should see. What a country.
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