Here’s a short account of Angeline Kwan’s trip to Iceland from June 2010. Angeline took a tour our of Reykjavik for 8900ISK and gives it an 8/10 overall with a few critiques.
Text and images from AngelineKwan.com with permission (images placement by editor)
The “must-see” attraction of Iceland where tourist are able to experience the power of nature – waterfall, geysir, green national park. We decide to get a tour instead of driving for this one as it was almost the same price besides we get more tour info. We picked Go travel Iceland as it was kinda of the cheapest 8900ISK and it has really good rating from TripAdvisor. Thanks to Evelyn that helped us to arranged everything from tour booking to car renting and even help us to wash our dirty laundry. Good day out of the misty city and enter to the nature. Weather was perfect for the outing.
Gulfoss, the largest waterfall in Iceland was amazing. It feels almost like Victoria fall (I think as I haven’t been there). When you stand on top of the cliff overseeing the entire waterfall below your feet, it feels like you are on top of the world. Shame there is no rainbow cast. Watch the video to see how magnification the waterfall was.
Standing in the mist by Gulfoss
Geysir geothermal area, the place was like in Mars. Pools of mud bubble, geysers explode and weird looking rocks and the mixture of the hot water and rock makes it looks almost looks like an ugly marble. This is our favourite spot of the there. The Strokkur which erupts every 5-15 mins is a little brother to Geysir – which has stopped erupting, which is kind of sad as its eruptions where much more spectacular than of Strokkur.
Strokkur geysir, in the Geysir geothermal area
Pingvellir National Park the evergreen & lots of water filled rifts with crystal clear water perfect for scuba diving. Funny fact is people actually throw lots of coins in those rifts and it form a rather interesting and shining effect to the rifts. Pretty awesome actually.
Thingvellir National Park (view of the valley)
Coins in the water at Thingvellier
The entire trip was fun overall. Rate 8 out of 10. Probably I was expecting more tour guide on the location spot rather then the tour guide disappearing all the time once she drop us there. But she does provide random general info about Iceland during the road trip and stop at some interesting attraction along the way like the canyon volcano & blue waterfall & the Geothermal station.
