I arrived on Iceland at the afternoon. When I m leaving the airport I can feel how the cold air goes under my thin cloth. However I do not care, my complete attention is focused on the impressive landscape. It is a mixture of tundra and volcanic landscape. When I buy my busticket I get my first shock, the prices for transportation are extremely high. A bus ticket from the airport to Rekjavic costs almost 2000 ISK. However I will fall in love with this country. The beautiful landscape and the kindness of the Islanders are gorgeous. When I want to book my first trip in Island the woman from the hostel give me the advice to try hitch-hiking or to call the man on a paper who is looking for people to share a car and costs for petrol. Perfect I arrange it and the next day my first trip “The Golden Circle” route starts. We are driving through a landscape which reminds me a little bit to the Drakensberge in South Africa but it is still different because in the next moment it is tundra like in Russia. I can only repeat me. We arrive at the first attraction the Thingvellir National Parc where the two continental plates come together and the first parliament of Iceland was founded. From the information center we have a beautiful view on a lake behind which is reflecting the sun. However the thermometer say it is only 4 degree celcius. The next attraction is a geyser. You can smell sulphur in the nose which comes from the multiple hot springs around the geyser. It is getting colder and colder and we drive further to Gulfoss a massive waterfall.

The cold water is whipped into our faces by the wind. Behind the waterfall you can see a glacier far away. On the way back we are have a beautiful sunset but the northern lights we can not see. The next day we do a trip to the glacier lagoon Jökularson at the south coast 330 km away from Rekjavic. On the way we see beautiful waterfalls (smaller than yesterday) but we can go behind it. The other one is in a cave. Have you ever seen a waterfall in cave. If you want to see one I can recommend to bring your rain jacket with you. 😉 It is getting wet inside. After the waterfall we have done a little hike and continued our road trip. Another highlight is one of the most beautiful beaches on Iceland: The beach in Vik which consists of lavastone sand. It is very fine and completely black. In the sea are small rock formations. Finally we arrive the glacier lagoon and are only impressed. I have never seen a iceberg before but the different colours especially the blue in the icebergs is …sorry I do not find a word to describe it. We just stand there and have done nothing until we saw the first seal. We tried to come closer but it swims away so we decided to do pictures. By the way have you ever heard how it sounds when a part of a glacier falls into the sea. Incredible. When we drove back we tied again to see the northern lights without success but we agreed that because of the view on the icebergs and the glacier the long drive was worth it. With a large package of memories I will leave now Iceland heading to New York.