Blogs from Iceland, Europe - page 84

Geo: 64.1353, -21.8952Salimos al tour a las 9am, después de desayunar claro está. Primero fuimos a Thingvellir, lugar donde se estableció el primer gobierno hace poco más de 1000 años, ahí estuvimos 40 minutos y después nos dirigimos a Gullfoss, una bella catarata, donde nuevamente permanecimos unos 40min y casi nos deja el camión. De ahí fuimos a Geysir, donde comimos. Compartimos la mesa con Elizabeth y John de Singapur y con la familia de Doug Nelson. De regreso paramos en Hveragerdi, donde tienen un minimuseo de lo que pasa con los temblores. En Reykjavik fuimos al Perlan, un domo que tiene vista panorámica de toda la ciudad, y luego el camión nos dejó en centro, donde hemos estado caminando un rato, recorriendo la calle con las tiendas, llegamos a la Hallgrimskirkja y luego comimos en ... read more

Geo: 63.0382, -13.7256Después de desayunar fuimos a nadar un rato y en el hot tub platicamos con un North Caroliner y unos españoles, luego fuimos a la plática sobre Noruega, la de Islandia nos quedamos dormidos. Al pasear por las tiendas nos topamos con Edgardo, un argentino que trabaja en la boutique, y ahi nos quedamos un rato intercambiando impresiones. En la noche fuimos al show de Buzz Sutherland, un comediante moderadamente simpático.... read more

2nd road trip in 2 weeks. Next up, we headed to Iceland where we were treated to another round of pristine natural attractions. Out of the world landscapes, out of our most fertile imaginations. The unearthly sights in this land of fire and ice were too amazing not to be shared and below are the 10 favourite memories/places from our trip into this unique island. 1. We were glad we came during summer, where we witnessed the 'midnight sun' in the capital Reykjavik. The clear skies never looked like dimming as the sun continued to hover over the horizon. It was past 12am when we headed to the port to catch the sunset. It was surreal, as we could see the fiery red orb on one end of the sky and the luminous bright moon on ... read more

This was the last day of our South Ring road trip. We were up and ready for breakfast by 8 am as we had another long day of traveling ahead of us back to Reykjavik. Stephan was an excellent guide and we were looking forward to hearing more Icelandic stories. Or so we thought. Let’s just say that by the end of the day it seemed like he was reaching for things to say and his so called sagas were dragging on and were not that interesting. We first started out going back to Glacier Lagoon. If it wasn’t too cold or if the weather was nice we were going to take a trip on the boat through the lagoon. How funny is that, if the weather is nice; what we were thinking? We are in ... read more

The day started not too early for everyone but who can tell since it never gets dark. It is very weird. We met our private guide Edda at the hotel around 9AM to start our drive of the Golden Circle. This is a drive about 150 KM long around the geothermal and geological areas of interest in Iceland near Reykjavik. Gene was our driver while Judy was the designated backseat driver. Which was ironic because she had never even seen a map of the area, but kept telling Gene where to go and how to drive. We started with a quick stop at the world’s largest geothermal power plant so Kirsten could get her geek on. Chester was bored, but it only took about 30 minutes so she had to deal with it. The natural hot ... read more