Today we launched the second attempt, the Golden Circle on your own with a rental car to drive. 8:15 Against Clock we got our little "Nothing is impossible" to hire from the auto and started after a short stop at the hotel in the south. This time we took the turnoff to Nesjavellir because we wanted to pass by the big power plant. Somehow, but has anything changed in the street guide and we saw only a few columns of smoke from a distance. Since it had become very cold at night and we came in slightly on the road slides, we gave up the power station and continued our journey towards Thingvellir. There we took a walk on the historic ground between Iceland and searched the rugged lava rock to trolls. After this first stop we drove towards Geysirgebiet, we thought, and came here a little off course. After about 30 km gravel road with sometimes breakneck combinations of hills and curves, we came back on a paved road, and laid the remaining kilometers. At noon we had the Geysirgebiet for ourselves to and saw some spectacular eruptions of the bubbling, we had seen on the directions even be lucky to Strokkur shortly after the geyser in action. The geyser we had been able to do for now. climbed after a short tour of the souvenir shop, we back our Toyota and drove the short distance to Gullfoss. Of course there was the first goal of the restaurant with the best lamb soup Islands. Strengthened so we began the descent to the waterfall. Meanwhile the sun broke through the clouds and we saw some rainbows over the falls, which we tried with our cameras to be recorded. In between the wind blew in unas direction and we had already afraid that it was a mistake to leave the rain pants in the car, it was not as bad as the wind blew and ran after something in the other direction. So we were relatively dry up again in the parking lot. Now it was back in the direction selfoss on the ring road. Sebastian played with the road map in hand to guide us and piloted by almost Kerid at the volcano, but we saw at the last moment and still were able to make a short photo stop.
The next goal was Hveragerdi Eden was where the regret of all the soft ice cream machine is already dismantled for cleaning. The children are still brought the long awaited ice and we went through the Greenhouse. Suddenly we heard, as it began to rain heavily and decided to cut short the stay, because we still had the Hellisheidi before us. That this was a good idea, we saw when we were almost at the top and the rain went on more and more snow. On the plateau was already a lot of snow on the road and the snow was so strong that sometimes the oncoming vehicles until very late recognized. Fortunately, the descent from the plateau towards Reykajvik fairly uniform and not very steep, so we slowly but surely down a bit arrived. The 15% slope towards Hveragerdi we had not done well, just as the climb to fourth Hellisheidi Hour later.
In Reykjavik we sold Beate and the luggage in the hotel and drove to Hertz. After the car was passed, the walk was to the hotel where we were surprised by the onset of rain. have
The evening we ate Esse deleted for now, because everyone was still tired in the lamb soup Gullfosscafe, we then have a Skyr and some pastries and looked at the pictures of the day.
As the end of our journey, we have for today, booked our last day, not even a trip to the Blue Lagoon. Then we come once more into the city is perhaps a little shopping.
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