We spent a fantastic week in Reykjavik, Iceland eating amazing food (mostly hot dogs, but also fish soup and a lamb shank) and exploring the country side, but we weren’t about to stick around in the same place the entire 2 weeks! I booked us a tiny cabin in the country for the second half of our trip. We checked out of our hotel right after breakfast and had the entire day to make our way out to the cabin. It just so happened that you can choose to take a small detour and go right through the golden circle on the way to the cabin. Since the weather, admittedly, was terrible the first time we tried to visit, we wanted to go back and try again hopefully without getting frostbite. Boy am I glad that we did! The clouds cleared up to a beautiful pink sunrise over the snow and it was glorious!
The drive through Thingvellir National Park was my favorite part of today. We hardly saw it the first time, but this time the sunrise was phenomenal over the layer of fresh snow. We hiked around for a while taking photos of the colorful sunrise reflected in the water and ice. (ok, maybe it was mostly ME taking photos… but Jason was there too!)
We tried to go back to Gulfoss but were deterred by the sheer quantity of tour buses and throngs of tourists in the parking lot and instead carried on to Geysir. I’m very glad that I got to see this in better weather. It was well worth the trip!
