Today was the big tour at Myvatn. That meant to get up early and breakfast at 7:00 clock. Your swimsuit and some snacks to eat and drink for the road course, we have also packed. Short after 8 clock we were at the tourist information and have watched as the inter-city buses are loaded and assembled at the passengers slowly in all directions around the island to drive.
As it was already after half past nine, we thought you had forgotten us and actually, it was. The local bus company had received no news that four tourists have booked the tour Myvatn. For the Icelanders, however, was not a problem. The staff of the Tourist Info, incidentally, a German, has just phoned and arranged a driver. It was not long before arrived with Siggi Siggi. However, it is true two Siggi came a drove us and the other explains it all. Siggi, the guide said even German and so the children could understand everything, he actually came only three days earlier returned from a vacation in Canada. Well it started then. When Siggi was told that we have made this trip without the children before, he started thinking about what new locations around the Myvatn he could show us, since we were only four, he could move to several points as usual, because the entry and exit of course does not last as long as when the bus is occupied by 40 or more passengers. He was correctly observed that it makes his job a lot more fun and he therefore did not care that he was called away from breakfast in the morning to drive four tourists through the area instead as planned to work in his stables.
The first stop was on the other side of the Eyjafjord of which we now know that it is at 65 km the longest in Iceland and has a width of up to 25 km. From this vantage point one could see the whole city. At the moment the weather was not as optimally but the rain was not too bad. Then it was accompanied with lots of information about the area and especially on the work of farmers and ranchers around here continue to Godafoss. case of the gods played a large role in the conversion to Christianity of the country involved. In the vicinity of the case was a man of his court, who at that time and the Gestzessprecher in the Assembly at the Althing was. This single man now had the task to decide whether changes Iceland to Christianity or not. After 24 hours under a sheepskin was the decision taken, and his speech to the Alting brought the country a very great change, he said that to believe in such a small country with so few people actually everyone in only one God. This decision was immediately taken in appropriate legislation and was also on sale now. Old customs and traditions we eating horse meat and the abandonment of children was spared by the law. In order to reaffirm its decision and to show the Icelanders, that he himself might do, he rode home and got his high perch, which were decorated as usual with any idols, and cast them into the stream. These bars were a bit more then in this waterfall, which has been the case since the gods called.
more stations were Dimmuborgir, the "black locks, a large area with some bizarre lava formations in which they, with a little imagination, can recogni all possible figures. Many go out here and look for the petrified trolls.
Skutustadagigar was the world's most pseudo craters on such a small area, our goal for the lunch break. Here is the Hotel Myvatn the delicate smoked trout eat and let us taste the homemade soup. The smokehouse was one of the goals we could have a look outside the normal stops, very interesting (and tasty).
The crater of Vilkans Viti (Hell) has Siggi, the driver suddenly started to throw snowballs at the kids. This came just in time which, of course, in no time developed a real snowball fight.
the rieigen volcano Hverfjall with his 140-meter-deep crater and the crater rim, which has a circumference of a thousand meters, we saw us on the way home towards Akureyri, as there is a point which is slightly raised and good Weather permitting us an insight into the crater opening.
course, we have not seen before the volcano Krafla geothermal power plant and the same, we could soga go directly to the hole and look at the apparatus, which regulates the pressure of the steam in more detail. We certainly unthinkable, because in Germany the construction of the fences and walls are at such plants usually more expensive than the actual construction of the power plant.
do not forget to mention us, the high temperature region with its many bubbling mud pools Hverir vid Námafjall where we messed up the shoes quite a bit. It was almost embarrassing to get back on the bus and then the squeaky-clean hall of Myvatn entering lagoons. In this Äquvivalent to the Blue Lagoon in the south, we were able to relax for an hour, the hammer thing was that we had the whole lagoon just for us. When Siggi back in Akureyri, asked where he should stop us and said that we could choose this, of course, Sebastian was the idea that he might set us apart from the lagoon to swim again. This was, of course (unfortunately) not so we sneaked into the hotel with dirty shoes and decided the evening with a further visit to the restaurant Bautinn that we can recommend without reservation.
After an incredibly interesting and instructive Day we fell into bed, tired.
Thank you again here at Siggi Siggi and go for an exciting trip and a great atmosphere.
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