Mount Esja - Reykjavik

Góðan daginn,

at day 2 in Reykjavik Christoph and me went hiking. We wanted to hike Mount Esja, and so we did.

It is approximately 920 m high and it took us 3.5 h for the whole trip. We had to drive about 20 min on road #1 northwards from Reykjavik to the parking park.

From there we started out trip. In the beginning everything was green and kinda warm, about 13°C.

 So we were happy that we chose this day for the hike. 

Icelandic National Museum - THOR!

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after finally arriving back in Reykjavik we decided to visit the icelandic national museum.

Actually we were expecting big stuff! We all know about Vikings and their history. Of course they landed here and had all their nordic gods. 

 Well we found Thor, the god of thunder! Yes directly in the beginning of the exhibition we found him! It was amazingly tiny !

Last bow blew us away - Sun and cloud kissing

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on our way back to Reykjavik we decided to drive one last bow, one last Fjord to take. Iceland's mother nature didn't let us down. 

 When we came to the top of the Fjord the sun gave us a slice sight of sun and cloud kissing. And that was the result:

Lava tube cave - Vatnshellir - Beyoncé, Bacteria and a troll!

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the Lava cave Vatnshellir is located in the national park, which we were driving through.

Christoph's biggest wish for the national park was the visit in a lava tube. So we stopped by randomly at one of the caves. I guess we were pretty lucky by stopping at this one. Our tour guide was very friendly and gave us a lot of information.

Iceland national Park - Snaefellsjokull

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on our last day traveling threw the country we visited the national park Snaefellsjokull. It was again very impressive. The ride itself was amazing! Most of the landscape was lava stone covered in greenish moose! It is really cool how nature conquers the destroyed back!

Stykkishólmur - Picture book harbor!

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After a long ride at the west coast we arrived at our hotel for the night in Hotel Stykkishólmur. When we came to the hotel the parking lot was fully packed with cars and we got seriously the last space. When we were about to check in there was a group of approximately 20 old icelandic women waiting at the reception. One of them told us, that they had 60 years anniversary from school. Haha, Next year I have ten years graduation anniversary. 

Anyway, to escape the trouble at the hotel we went for dinner and the only restaurant which was still open (at 9 pm most of the icelandic restaurants and stores close) was the Route 66 (it was a fast food restaurant included in a gas station.

Go West - Life is peaceful there!

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The ghosty hotel gave me a very mystic sleep, so I was a little tired the next day. But the next day we wanted to go south again. As you see in the map we were in the second Fjord in the north (second from the left). and we wanted to go to the very west. 

 I guess as a goodbye present the ghost hotel father gave us a hint that we could see some seals. As animal friendly as we are we wanted to see them.