This was it. Our final (half) day in Iceland. I woke up, tired as hell, rushed out to grab some final pastries and we frantically packed so we could be ready by the time the shuttle came. When we were finally packed, i looked over the details of the shuttle and it turned out that “hotel pickup” was actually a pickup at a bus station several blocks from the hotel. Oh crap. So we grab our stuff and rush over there. After waiting a bit, it doesn’t feel like the shuttle is coming, so I call the bus company and it turns out we missed the shuttle, but they said they would hold the main bus for 5 minutes if we grabbed a taxi to the bus terminal. We do. The taxi was $30 for a 6 minute ride (Sheesh, Iceland is expensive). We get over there and they tell us that they did hold the bus for *exactly* 5 minutes and now we’ve missed it. Uh, thanks. So now we have to take a taxi to the blue lagoon. This costs $160. Blargh. (Later, the fare onward from the Blue lagoon cost $115, so all in all $300 in taxi costs for the day. Fucking hell).
Anyways, the blue lagoon is one of Icelands most famous attractions. It’s a beautiful lagoon amidst black crumbly lava rock (in fact, there was a volcanic eruption here just earlier in the week and they had to evacuate the entire area). The water is a powder blue color with clouds of steam floating all around. Since it’s so close to the airport, people usually either do it first or last on their trip to Iceland. I’m super glad we did it last as it was the perfect way to cap off our trip. We spent three hours just bobbing around in the hot waters and relaxing. They have a swim up bar where you can get beers or slushies, and also a place where you can get all these fancy mud mask things. I decided to go for it and hopefully my face is now glowing as promised! Dammit, it better glow!
So that’s a wrap. Our little nine day trip to Iceland was done. It all just kind of flew by, but it also feels like we did *so much* with our time here. Waterfalls, glaciers, black sand beaches, etc… Iceland has it all. A truly surreal and unique place, it’s so weird to think that nobody really came here before just like 15 years ago, and now it’s such a popular destination.
Though we saw pretty much everything we wanted to see, the one thing we didn’t get to see was the northern lights. Visibility was never that great during our time here, and it just never worked out somehow. Oh well, maybe some other time.



