As good every bit venturing out to sea, nosotros explored a footling of Iceland's landscape exterior of Reykjavik via a bus tour. We were lucky to dry reason a mini-bus session amongst merely 4 boyfriend travellers together with a lovely local direct who knows this volcanic province together with its inhabitants well. As good every bit an earnest, baffling pony present together with closed to stunning scenery (scroll downwardly for photos) nosotros sampled a few memorable local foods too.
Well, Michael didn't sample anything at Friðheimar, where tomatoes are grown inwards huge greenhouses powered yesteryear geothermal electricity. Their methods were pioneered yesteryear Knútur Ármann, pictured above.
After checking out piping-hot streams, geysers together with kicking dorsum inwards a steam bathroom nosotros were led to the lakeside yesteryear the baths. Here H2O boils where it emerges at the surface!
The locals brand role of it to bake bread. Dough is packed into a plastic-covered watertight tin together with buried no to a greater extent than than 30cm deep inwards the gravel.
Twenty-four hours after you lot accept a freshly baked loaf of rye bread! This was utterly delectable, soft together with sweetness together with spread amongst butter. It reminded me of the cake that my grandmother sometimes boiled inwards a tin at the farm.
At the Galleri I also noticed kleinur! These doughnuts were the solely Icelandic nutrient mentioned inwards the in-flight magazine that looked vegetarian (and I've since constitute out that they're traditionally fried inwards tallow) together with thus I'd stored away their prototype inwards my mind. Unlike the bread, these weren't actually fresh together with I couldn't gustation the cardamom that I'd been looking forwards to.
While the surrounds outshone the food, it was an unexpected process to reveal that Iceland's cuisine has a veg-friendly facet or two.
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These 2 ponies were also cool to demonstrate
the 5 gaits of the Icelandic Equus caballus (though others obliged)
Glacier!
(check out the pedestrian path for scale)
Streams of near-boiling H2O inwards the Haukadalur geothermal area
Strokkur the natural springtime geyser!
Waiting 4-8 minutes for the adjacent Strokkur display
These valleys are fissures caused yesteryear diverging tectonic plates. Pretty cool.
The spectacular Þingvellir National Park, site of the world's oldest parliament
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