Iceland has been a very special destination for me. It's just below the Artic Circle and - as probably most of us - I have never been so far up north ;)
Iceland offers incredible natural wonders and the pictures below show just some impressions of our walk through the capital Reykjavik, hiking up a vulcano, exploring in between the European and North American tectonic plates, discovering landscapes that made us feel like being on the Moon, on Mars, on Jupiter and other far far away planets and soaking in the hot springs of Blue Lagoon *kkkk*
in and around Reykjavik
Þingvellir National Park ... where the European and the NorthAmerican continental plates are moving away from each other a few mm every year!
a cute white bird that has perfectly adapted to a wintery landscape
even there is no fence, an entrance gate is here ;)
our baby tiger rental car ;)
Geysir ... one of the most amazing natural wonders I have ever seen :)
Shooting hot water into the air from deep inside every few minutes!
hot water in rivers is nothing seldom in Iceland
...just metres away from all the snow and high up in the mountains we enjoy this wonderfully hot river...
GULLFOSS - the golden waterfall
a toilet, in the middle of nowhere
black lava beaches
exploring a 1.5km long cave ... full of ice stalagtites and stalagmites this time of the year!
We can clearly feel that the ground below us is hot and it's boiling inside mother earth ... smoke can be seen from far away, sometimes geysirs are gushing up!
Iceland's Land End
BLUE LAGOON ... soaking in hot water! A wonderful treat and perfect end of our wonderful trip!
I will be back ... would love to come back in summer to see everything blossoming :)
