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- Jun 19, 2024, 10:07 PM
- ☁️ 8 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- IcelandWestBorgarnes64°35’36” N 21°51’2” W
Day 18 - Siglo to Borganges
June 19 in Iceland ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Goodbye Siglo 👋
It has been wonderful staying at Andrew & Dagny's we will miss the wonderful views 😢
It's a wet miserable day and we are heading towards Reykjavík. We took the scenic route from Siglo, Andrew is a bundle of knowledge about the country as we drive along, he has told us so much about the landscape etc.
1st stop our trip was a viking museum with a twist.
We learnt about the viking battles of Iceland and then went into a VR room and were able to experience being in a real battle it was a very neat experience!
2nd stop was turf houses. These are houses made of earth and grass! This was super cool to have a look around, quite amazing the way some used to live (and some still do). We even found metal shoes they put on cows feet to help them in the snow!
Next was the longest part of the drive, about 2.5 hours and we made it to a volcano that erupted about 3000 years ago. Here we could walk to the top and got a great view of the crater and the lava the had spilled out. We could also see old sheep pens that were made of lava rock 🪨
This left us 25 mins from our accommodation. Accommodation is very expensive here so we managed to find some cabins that were a reasonable price, definitely nothing flash.
Unfortunately for us we walked into ours and noticed the sheets were definitely not clean.. 🤢 after no luck getting hold of anyone to get clean ones we worked out a cabin near us is not occupied tonight so we made like vikings and stole their sheets 😅🙈
It was now time to feed the troops so we drove the short distance to town and had pizza 🍕 then we went to a delicious ice cream palour 🍨
Back to our cabin for what we hope will be a good sleep 🙄🤣 ready for our last day of Iceland adventures tomorrow 😀Read more
Traveler What an amazing day of discoveries. Always think the turf houses are fascinating. How wld u like putting the cow shoes on?
Traveler Haha I wouldn't like to with some of our girls!! 🙈
Traveler What a great time you all are having you kids won't fit it into your morning talks love to you all safe journey love Nana and grandad
Traveler Wow that sounds like another awesome day with many experiences 😍🥹 have a great last day!