Spending four nights in Reykjavik Iceland was awesome! We got to see so much and do so much in such a short time. First of all if you ever need a layover going to Europe possibly pick Iceland flight? Iceland Air and Iceland Express have some pretty good deals. The airport is beautiful and when you land you kind of feel like your on another planet it's so rocky... Kind of reminds me a little bit of AZ. However they are the lava fields. The lava is hardened of course. The city of Reykjavik is so organized with transportation to and from then airport... Plus the city transportation and tours are very efficient.
Our hostel was called KEX which means biscuit in Icelandic. It's a pretty hard language to understand... It reminds me of a cross between Russian and German. We stayed in a basic room with communal bathrooms but everything was clean and nice. It was a good pick. Also to give you an example of how friendly the Icelandic
people are when we arrived at the bus terminal at 2:30am to walk to our hostel some local girl who overheard us and was going the same way offered to help us. You may think Iceland is cold but it was actually not that bad and they say they even have mild winters because of the gulf stream. You could actually see the stars clearly from the city which is a first in any city I've been too. Reykjavik is actually the northern most capital in the world.
Using the Icelandic currency was an experience.... 160 kroner to every 1 euro. So the first morning I spent 700 kroner on breakfast it was a little hard to wrap your mind around. But
after 4 days we got use to it. They had a main shopping and restaurant street at was very cute. It was the first hilly city I've been too since Burlington probably. Only 320,000 people live on Iceland and 200,000 of those people live by Reykjavik.
In brief tours we went on on and things we did: walked around the city saw the tallest building in Iceland which was a beautiful church. Went on a gold. Circle tour which highlighted guards, craters,waterfalls, and the place where the American tectonic plate and Europe plate are splitting apart. It's called parliament field. We saw glaciers from a distance. We went to the blue lagoon which I highly highly recommend. The water was blue almost like Cotton candy blue. It was surreal and rocks were all around us. There were cooler and hotter parts of the lagoon.. But I could stay in there for hours it was extremely relaxing and all natural. They also have a face mask that they let you use and let me tell you my face has not been this cleared up in awhile. Then on our last night we got to see the northern lights which was the cherry on top of the trip. Our first 2 nights were rained out but finally third times a charm.
You will just have yo go see them yourself that's all I have to say... It was breathtaking and they even danced for us which just means while they were the sky they moved around. Our tour guide was really funny too! So the last thing I have to say is go to Iceland you won't regret it.
THE FAMOUS BLUE LAGOON
(Me at the continental divide)
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