The streets were so interesting, rainbow street, colourful houses, coupled with ultra modern architecture made the city a delight The concert hall cum convention centre. Amazing glass architecture The sun voyager, the artist envisioned a boat to take him to infinity The puffins come to Iceland for breeding and they have almost all departed by August. We saw the last few of them at a distance (had gone on a boatride to view them). They are very cute, look like cartoon characters. There are lots of museums in Reykjavik, will try and explore some on our last day in iceland. Today we start an 8 day ring road tour of Iceland. Iceland is a country of lot of mythology. Elves and trolls are part mythology. Vikings played an important part in iceland history. The viking Erik the Red was credited to having discovered Greenland Nothing much grows here except grass for animals because of volcanic activity and basalt rock which is all over Iceland Nowadays they have started growing vegetables in greenhouse, farming is mostly sheep, horse and fodder We start our tour of the golden circle with the Thingvellir national park. It is designated as unesco world heritage site Walking along the ridge, of basalt rock. It is under the ocean but Thingvellir is the only place where it is above ground Iceland is beautiful waterfalls due to the melting os the glaciers. Gullfoss is the largest and is truly beautiful Iceland is full of volcanic and geothermal activity. It is known as the land of fire and ice Geysir is an area of geothermal activity with geysers erupting every 5 to 10 min, some constantly bubbling but not erupting, some dormant. Next was a visit to a horse farms. Icelandic horses are very fluffy and good-looking. Another beautiful waterfall was the Seljalandfoss waterfall. An interesting feature of this fall is that one can walk behind it. We spent the night in the slogan area. Our hotel was in the area in a beautiful landscapes around. View from our window. Observe the face of a troll in the in the rock face. Driving towards southern Iceland, beautiful landscapes along the way. A stop at Dyrholaey island where we saw the black sand beach. The landscapes are completely of another world. Unimaginably stunning This morning we are at the skogafoss falls. This area is the backdrop of several films, TV shows including the Shahrukh khan kajol song gerua Also saw some puffins Another beautiful black sand beach with caves with basalt columns, very dramatic. Lots of birds were also there After lunch was a hike to Katla cave The katla volcano is an active volcano which lies under the Myrdallsjokull glacier. There was a very major eruption 900 hundred years ago which caused the whole area to be covered by lava. The last eruption took place in 1918 which caused the glacier over it to melt and consequently flood the entire town of Vik. The town of Vik The journey to Katla revealed the most dramatic landscapes. A part of the journey was in a superjeep because of absence of road Estrahorn Mountain is equally beautiful in winters! Studlagil canyon would be on the way after eggilstadir.. must hike