MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013
Days 2 and 3…I think!
THERE IS ONLY ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE ICELAND:
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
GEYSERS AND GLACIERS
After leaving Thingvellir, we head for Vik, a small town located in the South. En-route we stopped at Geysir where we went to see some Geysers…Of course it was raining and we got soaked waiting for the geyser to ‘blow’ then I missed the shot and refused to wait another 20′. We arrive in Vik and stayed at the “Volcano Hotel” where we booked a glacier hike adventure. What a blast!! Our guide (and operator of the hotel), Johannes, was absolutely wonderful and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. In one area of the glacier we saw bubbles in the ice and he told us that the air in those bubbles was about 200 years old. He also mentioned that when the vikings first came to Iceland, there were no glaciers. The “Little Ice Age” came about after a series of volcanic eruptions. Below are some pictures of our adventures in this area of Iceland.
Small geyser and the missed geyser:
On the way to Vik:
Climbing the glacier:
Some views of Vik:
