Golden Falls (Gullfoss) Geysir

After four hours sleep (at best) it was time for breakfast. The breakfast was better than some we'd had, but not that filling. The bus from the hotel is the same no matter which trip you're on. It stops of at Reykjavik Excursions which is kind of like a hub for the trips. It's also handy that the coach has a Wi-Fi connection. The trip we were on …

The next day, we were supposed to drive to the Golden Circle and then our Hotel in Hvergarði, but I had a great idea to instead drive to our hotel and get on a tour to the Golden Circle. We weren´t sure if the road up there would be paved, so we wanted to take it easy on driving bad roads.. It worked out very well, we did an afternoon tour of the …

Friday, 17 February 2012


We caught IcelandAir from Heathrow at 8:30pm to Reykjavik. IcelandAir had a surprisingly large aeroplane and it was a full flight. It was a comfortable flight as we were kept pre-occupied with our individual TV screens. Unfortunately as the flight was delayed in taking by about an hour, we arrived an hour …

Turns out the cheapest way to get from Toronto to the UK is via Iceland......taking advantage of the route we locked in a quick two day stopover!! We left TO in the evening and chased the night across into Europe which pretty much meant we landed in Iceland around at sunrise….around the time when we should have been getting our heads down. …

I'm really glad I switched tours today, it was exactly the same tour but it spent a bit less time
at each site. That worked out well, I found I had the perfect amount of time at
each place, the weather was FREEZING and I had just enough time to look around
and take pictures without getting frostbite. Lol. We went to Pingvellir
…

The Golden Circle tour continued with one of the most amazing sites in all of Iceland.  Gullfoss or Golden Falls. After a cloudy, cold morning at Þingvellir National Park, we arrived at Gullfoss.  Suddenly, as if someone up their knew I ...

... this building tonight. The nearest farm is about 1km away. The sky is clear tonight. I saw stars for the first time in Iceland and I was hoping to see the Northern Lights. However, when I went outside the farmer's big sheep dog suddenly appeared out ...

... before you get here. The scenery was good, the journey took us through the first national park - Pinvegellir, then onto Gullfoss - golden falls, Geysir and Skaholt. The golden falls were amazing and huge - the other waterfalls I have seen do not come ...