Iceland Cruise July 9th 2017 - Reykjavik Page

Beautiful day. We had booked on an all-day tour of important geological sites, called "The Golden Circle" & it was just as well, as the ship berthed miles from the middle of Reykjavik. It was a long drive before we got to...

At this remarkable place, the bus dropped us at the top, which allowed us to actually walk down the fissure between the plates, which shift apart by 2cm per annum, a tremendous rate of progress in geological time. The plates are quite close at the top, where we got the two views below & the narrow fissure shown. A little further, they are sufficiently separated for easy progress. Further down, there is a view across the valley & a waterfall where they Vikings drowned naughty women. This is in two parts, upper & lower. We picked up our coach at the bottom.

...or Geysir in the local spelling, as this was the first one named. Ken spent some time looking at the wrong geyser but finally found the right one!

It was much further on to the promised waterfall. To the North, was this glacier, which the guide said was the biggest in Europe. Ken thought the Aletsch Gletscher was the biggest & this one looks stagnant but it is hard tell at this distance but the guide said it was shrinking, so maybe it is.

The guide listed this with the great waterfalls of the World & it did not disappoint. Two falls close together & a long, narrow, so fast moving, gorge ahead of them. The layout of paths & ladders was very good.