Iceland Recap

Top 5 waterfalls:
1. Klifbrekkufossar
2. Glymur
3. Seljalandsfoss
4. Glfabrui
5. Skogafoss

Top 5 attractions:
1. Silfra Snorkelling
2. Mulagljufur Canyon
3. Geysir
4. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon/ Diamond Beach
5. Reykjadalur Hot Spring

Top 5 food/snacks:
1. Icelandic Lamb soup (Icelandic Streetfood)
2. Braud and Co Cinnamon buns
3. Snúður (giant cinnamon bun with flavored icing)
4. Opal Lollies
5. Samba chocolate covered liquorice

Final thoughts/observations:
* Iceland has next to no fauna. There are a few birds and fish (we only saw one fish the whole time). They don’t even have mosquitoes.
* We probably enjoyed the North more as we realised we don’t like tourists and crowded places like that of the south. The north also was even more beautiful to drive along and had so much untouched nature.
* Iceland has been Christian for longer than we thought so there’s less of a focus on Vikings and Norse mythology.
* The weather didn’t “change every 5 minutes” like we were warned- instead for us it was beautiful. Always sunny and clear skies, not too windy and NO RAIN!
* Iceland doesn’t seem to have cultural diversity. You can tell who are tourists and we observed very few people living in Iceland of an obvious other nationality.
* Icelanders drive a lot like people in Perth. Not much indicating, speeding and not good at merging. Maybe it’s because they have a small population like us.

All up we loved Iceland so much. It has so much beauty, magic and is a place like no other. The scenery changed every 10 minutes, from glaciers to waterfalls to green hills to dark volcanic rocks. It was breathtaking driving all around and we are so glad we did it. We were also discussing how glad we are that we visited now, because in the next few years Iceland will become even more touristy and sites will potentially close down. Also most of the glaciers are said to be melted by 2060, which is so devastating. It was a trip of a lifetime and we even might visit again when we are older because we loved it so much!Lue lisää