Great 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 …

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
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... are surrounded by colorful springs, bubbling milky springs, and mudpots - awesome stuff! Not too far from Geysir is Gullfoss - another of Iceland's "must see" waterfalls.  We went in the morning but Jack realized that the light would be ...

... , we got in the car and headed out of town, toward Thingvellir. Thingvellir, the site of the first legislative assembly in Iceland, is a lovely locale, set up against a rock escarpment, on the continental rift, near a large lake. We found the visitor's ...

... nbsp; If you enjoy amazing natural beauty, unique animal sightings, partying, friendly people, or superb spas...somehow, someway {e.g. fly from Europe to the US (or vice versa) with Iceland Air, which provides free stopovers in Iceland,}go visit ...

... to Geysir and Gullfoss (A big water gun and a big water fall), we passed another water fall (shockingly there are a great deal of these in Iceland) as well as got lost looking for another waterfall (either buy good maps or get tips from locals before ...

... Faithful in the Yellowstone Park that gushes boiling water into the air periodically but the word is derived directly from Geysir in Iceland. There are several geysirs at Geysir and the main one from which the name is derived erupts only infrequently ...

... 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 ...

... they had hit the jackpot and were able to take a clean shot of their friends standing infront of the geysir as went off, but of course it provided great amusement when the massive plume of water would come directly down on top of them mid-shot. Lucky ...

... , before you loaded up the bus and when to see the Wonders. The Wonders are the Gullfoss Water Fall and geysirs in Geysir, Iceland. The water fall was created in an earthquake probably from a volcanic eruption, I believe is what Dr. Novak said ...