What to do when hunting for airline tickets to Spain and I see I can save $400 per ticket by flying through Iceland? Why plan a fun 9-hour layover there, of course. Super short trip - our options were either the Blue Lagoon (volcano heated
lake) or Reykjavík? Consensus ended up being the lagoon so off we went.
We landed around 6:30 am and took a taxi to a hotel about a mile from the lagoon. We loaded up on (some of) a tradition Icelandic breakfast - we skipped the small preserved fish... and then hiked to the lagoon. I though a brisk morning walk would help wake us up from out jet lag since the flight from DC to Iceland is a short overnighter. We didn't have a lot of warm clothes since we were heading to warm Spain and Abu Dhabi so it certainly was *brisk*! It was a beautiful walk/ hike through dried lava rocks.
I couldn't take a camera into the lake so only managed to get one photo of Regan in the water but we floated around, put therapeutic mud on our faces and bodies, swam around the different legs of the lake. The water was warm but not too hot. There was a swim up bar where the kids could get slashes, too. The lake is man made and is attached to a geo-thermal power plant that make electricity from the hot water under the surface. There were a lot of people but the place was well organized with lockers, showers, etc. Definitely a great way to spend our layover and saved a lot of money on plane fare.
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| Our hike to the lagoon through pools of mineral-y water |
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| Lava climbing |
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| What the shoreline looked like |
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| Quick stop in the taxi on the way to breakfast to an underground cave |
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| Brrr! |
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| Afterwards we ate lunch at the restaurant and had a fabulous view of the lake where we had just been swimming |
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| The schedule was still a bit tough - not much sleep and then a busy layover. Anna crashed at the Reykjavík airport waiting on our next flight. |
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