Hey guys,
First of all I want to apologize for not posting in quite a while. As some of you might now, I’m currently doing a volunteering project at DAKTARI in South Africa. DAKTARI is a wildlife orphanage combined with a bush school. So I am really busy teaching kids and taking care of the animals. I will do a blogpost about it really soon!! So that is the reason why I did not find much time to choose the photos, edit and write the post lately.
Now coming back to the wonderful day on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland. I met a girl that was staying in the bed next to me and we realised we were on the same flight to Copenhagen. So we started planning what we wanted to do with the rest of our time. We decided to rent a car for 2 days and do two different day trips.
As always we did not have any plan. We just drove around the peninsula and figured on the go if there was any places we wanted to see. The first stop was at this cool lighthouse. Its not actually in use anymore but it was way prettier than the new one. Afterwards we walked between the continents. It is a space where the two plates drift apart creating a weird spot in the middle of nothing.
The next stop was at the beautiful coastline in the south of the peninsula. It was crazy how diverse it is there. On on side you have the lava fields with all the geothermal activity and on the other side rough cliffs and an endless view over the ocean.
Another stop at a pretty cool lookout point over the ocean. We read that there was supposed to be another hot pool but it turned out to be just a rock pool at the cliffs that you definitely could not swim in.
After we passed Grindavik we decided to do a small detour to the outreaches of the blue lagoon. It is really a very fascinating place. It was really weird to imagine that you can swim in it because the parts where you can walk along to were not really warm. Before coming back to Reykjavik we stopped at this huge lake. It was quite hard to actually see where the lake ended and where the snowy mountains started because it was completely frozen over. Must be a stunning place in summer.
I hope you will all forgive me for not posting for so long.
Lena xx
