The Golden Circle

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Today we explored the well trodden route for tourists, the Golden Circle. Luckily we had our own car and could cruise off a little later than all the tour buses and avoid the really busy times.
The Golden Circle includes 3 main sites:
1. Thingvelleir - the site of the parliment in the old times of Iceland, it has great lava formations and crevasses from where its location on one of the fault lines has played effect.
2. Geysir - a spout that erupts in a geothermally active area - it raises to about 80m every 3-5 mins (cameras at the ready..... along with everyone else!)
3. Gulfoss - a really stunning waterfall (more to come though!) with 2 tiers that gushes down lots of tonnes of water! Frequently has rainbows over it, which also makes for more nice photos. You can see one of icelands icecaps from the ridge on top of the waterfall too, which is quite exciting - it was the first glimpse of an icecap we had whilst in iceland.
We stayed in a place called Hveragerdi (which Al insisted in calling Herdigerdi....), not bad, had puffin on the menu.....

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Photos

church and old houses
at Thingvelleir

us again
Sunny and looking towards the lake

parliment
site of parliment in ye olde days

site of old court
where the flag is aparently...

Little Geysir
The name may say it all...

Geysir
Not so little - spouted to 80m every 3-5 mins

Geysir and us
photo from the top of the hill behind the geysir, which most people were too lazy to climb, I however went up in my short skirt, flip flops and handbag....

Gulfoss and rainbow
stunning

Funny rock stacks
not sure why....