After a simple breakfast in our room, we checked out of our hotel and headed out of Reykjavik. Didn't take long - 8 minutes or so and we were out in the countryside. Unfortunately it was raining this morning so the beautiful views were a bit obscured, we were limited to just what we could see beside the road.
First stop of the day was Hveragerdi. Since watching some promotional videos for Iceland, one of the things Lexie really wanted to do was boil eggs in a hot spring, and since Hverargerdi is "The Town of Hot Springs" this is the place to do it. Hot spring park is located right in the center of town. Unfortunately most of its hot springs were dry (can't say the same about us - it was still raining and at time sleeting so we all got pretty soaked wandering around). There was one little place set up for the boiling of the eggs though so we hired ourselves a net and set to work.
The kids had a ball - and we all got to enjoy boiled eggs for morning tea.
We spent some more time exploring the rest of town. It had a nice little waterfall.
But we couldn't really find any of the other hot springs that were meant to be scattered around.
We stopped in at a little corner park down the backstreets to have our lunch, but it was pretty miserable - it was still raining and sleeting so not much fun.
We headed out of town towards the coast. Next stop was Raufarholshellir. A lava cave. Andy walked down into the cave whilst I waited at the car till Josh woke up. Once he woke up Lexie, Josh and I went to check out the caves from the top side. The cave had collapsed in a couple of places and the kids had fun following Andy's progress from one sink hole to another.
We drove down to the coast at Porlskshofn. We weren't overly impressed with the town, until we saw the pool. It looked so cool we decided we had to stop in. This was our first experience of Icelandic pools. The fun of the communal showers before putting on your swimming suit, and then the real fun of running through the freezing cold to get into the pool, or onto the slide. We all had so much fun.
The final stop of the day was at Seljalandsfoss. A waterfall with a path going right around behind the falls.
Our hotel for the night was a great little log cabin in the middle of nowhere.
Boiling eggs sounds like awesome fun! So I assume the pools were all heated! Otherwise you're are all madder than I thought.
ReplyDeleteWell I make no pretense - yes we are crazy - but in this case yes the pools were all heated. I think 28DegC was the coldest one we went in. 44degC was our hottest. It's all geothermal waters.
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