After barely escaping the polar bear... The second day we had to drive to Hofn to do our blue glacier cave tour of doom. So the order of the day was picking up a rental car from Sixt. Sixt at Reykavik city airport will pick you up at your hotel and take you to the pickup place, a great deal, and we got the car for half off on Sixt's black friday deal. I got a red Opal SUV, and after arguing about insurance we ended up with a GPS since google maps really sucks in Iceland.
We started the day by heading to the Secret Lagoon, which is a cooler, cheaper, and slightly sexier version of the Blue Lagoon. We arrived at 11 am and the place was pretty empty. Note the shower inspectors weren't working, and there were some people from a certain south asian nation who weren't doing a full nude shower... shame on them. We'll let the pictures do the talkin:
A troll along the way!
The wife is really liking it
the main heat source... yea for onsite geyser
Lets hope this lagoon remains secret!
relax!
cool hot pool
This is a hot river where a bunch of the excess heat goes
some greenhouses being fed by the heat... there were some also some horses hanging out
getting crowded time to flea
Next we did the long drive to Hofn... but with a view like this the 5 hours went by fast
The landscape was full of these mini waterfalls... this is one of the big ones.
cool lake
nice weather... haha
We then ran into a big parking lot and started following a trail for 45 minutes to find this...
And empty black sand....
after some more driving it started to get dark
lukcily we soon arrived to our lovely bed and breakfast the House and the Hill
HOFN is a small delicious town, pronunced HOFF like the base in Star Wars the Empire Strikes back
a well deserved beer and lobster
the highlight of dinner at Z-Bistro is Z-Waffle, I like them .....
And now time for some sleep, because I get to ride this tomorrow:
