We saved the last day to see Reykjavik, a town combining Iceland's culture with a modern European metropolis. With a population of 200 thousand, it is small but full of life, traditional but trendy and certainly full of surprises. Colorful Downtown Reykjavik draws...
After a good breakfast, we left at around 10:30 to visit the Great Geysir, about 100km east. This the real thing, the geyser, after which all geyeirs are named. It used to blow hot water at 60-70m high - once it reached 122m - but it was clogged when, allegedly, some...
We started the tour of the Snaefell peninsula in heavy fog and rain, the worst weather since we arrived. Ten km west of Grundarfjörður, we saw a "Dead Whale" sign on the right. We followed the rough road between the green covered lava fields, facing an impressive...
After a short debate, we decided to take the first boat to whale watching, despite the warnings for bad weather, high risk to suffer nausea and not being able to see whales. It was sunny but obviously out in the open, it was rough. We wore the special fishing overalls...
Today, the program is rather loose. Breakfast in the room with the super market supplies and then drove to the city for a walk. There was a festival going on, celebrating the 150 years of the city of Akureyri. There were kindergarten kids everywhere, all dressed in...
The plan was to tour tha lake and then drive to Husavik but the weather forecast was bad for the next day and there might be no whale watching tours. So we changed the plan and decided to sleep in Akureyri and leave Husavik for the day after. We failed again to start...
Four tongues of the west side of Vatnajökull - the largest ice cap (3,100 km³) in Europe - end at the coast across Hotel Höfn, composing a beautiful panoramic view. A nice way to start the day. [gallery royalslider=1 name="1" style="width:100%" type="rectangular"...
We drove straight to the great waterfall of Skógafoss. At 62m high and 25m wide, it is one of the biggest in Iceland. The sun was shining and we climbed to the top, through the steps on the right side, not very easy but the views are definitely worth it. Next stop was...
It did not start well. If you decide to travel with Iceladair, be ready to spend €10 for a chicken salad and €6 for a pair of headphones. When we landed at midnight, it was dark and cold and windy and raining and of course, the car we had booked was not there, nor...