Iceland Short Trip 2013

We took a relatively short but very beautiful trip to Iceland. In total, we were only on the island for five days, but we still explored the entire southwest on our Iceland Short Trip. We had actually planned to

We wanted to stay in Reykjavik for a few days, but we ended up traveling to the „interior“ of the island. So we headed east to the big geysers. The currently largest active geyser shoots 80-100° C hot water into the air every 10 minutes. Very impressive. Unfortunately, with everything we did, we had to dry our clothes in the car with the air conditioning afterwards *lol*. It was only about 10° C and so it was really cold in wet clothes.

Gullfoss

We continued to Gullfoss waterfall, which consists of two cascades. In the evening, we found a small cave in the mountains where we found dry shelter and had a barbecue. Yummy! And well-deserved!

Then we went to sleep at the second highest waterfall in Iceland, Haifoss, in the south of the island. After a short walk, during which we were once again soaked to the bone, we slept soundly just a few meters away from the waterfall in our Jeep =). Until a fierce storm woke us up in the night. It's a strange feeling when you're in the middle of nowhere, in complete darkness, in the middle of the night, and you get the feeling the car is going to tip over *g* Not good!

The next morning we drove through the amazing volcanic landscape and returned to Reykjavik in the evening, along with the hotel's bed linens *blush* 😉

Blue Lagoon

Another highlight of our Iceland trip was visiting the Blue Lagoon. A lagoon not far from the capital, which actually has blue, milky water. It's a really cool feeling when you rub yourself with the volcanic mud and it's damn good for relaxing.

The only thing that took some getting used to on our Iceland short trip was the tap water, as both the cold and hot water come from natural Sources come and these are of course sulfurous. Yummy. It stinks to no end, at least in the first five days *g*