Today I had a relatively lazy start to the day and got up at 9am. At 10am I was picked up and dropped off at the blue lagoon for a few hours before they picked me up again to go to the airport. The blue lagoon was pretty cool but somehow seemed pretty similar to Hanmer. It was different water, the layout was different, there was silca stuff you could put on your face, it was in a cool place, the water was different (it was an opaque blue colour and was 33% salt water), it was pretty flash (It came as part of my package but normally costs 8000 ISK) but at the end of the day it was just another big communal bath. It didn't have little hot pools like hanmer either, just one big pool that was different temperatures depending on how close to the inflow you were. Pics here:
The whole thing is actually just a by product of the excess heat generated by the geo-thermal power station which you can see in the background of this photo:
I'm now typing this sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to JFK in New York. Oh and now might be a really good time to thank Mummy again for the beanie, it was invaluable! Goodbye Iceland. Despite sucking a massive chunk of money out of my wallet (I think I probably spent about 1500NZD here!) you are a really cool place and it would be awesome to come back in the middle of winter sometime for some sweet four wheel driving missions but I don't know if I will ever see you again. Special thanks to my travel agent, Sofi, for finding the stop-over though.
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