The Golden Circle, Iceland (2)

 

Þingvellir National Park/ Thingvellir National Park

 

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We walked to the Gullfoss Waterfall.

The way to go to the Gullfoss Waterfall was iced and slippery.

 

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On the way to go down the long stairs,

We could see the lovely landscape of Gullfoss waterfall.

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We went down the stairs to approach to the Gullfoss.

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We walked a bit more. We could be close to the waterfall.
We could feel the spray and splash of the Gullfoss waterfall.
 

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We went back up the stairs.

We had lunch at Gullfoss Café. 

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Geysir Geothermal Area

Geysir Hot Spring

Chouchou found several Little Geysirs.
Around Litli Geysir, we could see the landscape of snow mountains.

Geysir has a little bit western atomosphere.

the most biggest geyser "The Great Geysir" eruption
 Geyser erupted about every 10 minutes.

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We went back to Reykjavik.

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Episode of Golden Circle tour

Tomo & Chouchou went to see the waterfall "Gullfoss" located in Southern Iceland with Gray Line English tour.
In Icelandic, gull means "Gold" and foss means "waterfull". So Gullfoss means translated "Golden Falls". Gullfoss is the most biggest, most beautiful and most popular waterfall.
To go to see the waterfall, we had to walk a bit. The way to go to the waterfall was iced, so it was slippery to walk. On the way to go down the stairs, we could see the lovely landscape of Gullfoss. It was the good photo spot.
Getting down the stairs and walking a bit more, we could be close to the waterfall.
We could get the spray and splash of the waterfall. The power of Gullfoss waterfall was amazing! We felt the greatness of nature.
The scenery was totally different when we looked at the waterfall from a close distance and when we looked at the waterfall from the hill. We enjoyed both views.
In addition, in this Gullfoss area, there are a restaurant and a souvenir shop.
We had time to have lunch in this restaurant. Our tour guide recommended lamp soup in this restaurent because it's famous as delicious lamp soup. We paid a lamp soup at the cash desk, we could get refills for free. We really enjoyed lamp soup and the beauty of nature at Gullfoss.
We also went to the geyser called "Geysir". Geysir is located in southwestern Iceland. In Geysir, we could see the eruptions or hot spring's boiling.
Around Little Geysirs (Litli Geysir), we could see snow mountains. Around there, orange or red brown earth made us feel we were in the old Western America. :)
The most biggest geysir "The Great Geysir" eruption was the best to see at Geysir. About every 10 minutes, hot spring erupted. The quantity of spout of hot spring changed each time. Sometimes a lot of quantity, sometimes a little. So we watched several times. Geyser eruption was very interesting and enjoyable to see.  The landscape around Geysir was also fantastic. It was very enjoyable tour. We could enjoy Iceland a lot through this tour.

Tomo & Chouchou's advice for Geysir

The quantity of geyser eruption changes. So it's better to see 2 or 3 times minimum. At least until you see the big hot spring eruption.


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