Sunday, March 30, 2014

Iceland : Golden Circle Tour

Indeed another well spend day in Iceland. Totally worth tour I'll said; Golden Circle Tour. A tour that gonna bring you passed an whitish-icy mountain that gonna stunned your eyes. 8/9 hours tour to few main attractions in Iceland like Gulfoss, Geysir, Solomon Stairs and Thermal Geostation were totally a best way to get to know the beauty of Iceland.

Stairway to heaven.
A short stop to a tectonic plates that separates two large continents in the world; Europe and America. The view is picturesque and magnificent. The excitement for the first time to see a vast amount of snow in a vast landscape was totally a new experience for me, and I think the excretion of adrenaline make my body resist the coldness. Wow.

In between the tectonic plates.
Just crossing from America to Europe, without VISA.
Sit and pose for a while.
Along the road.
Thru the journey my eyes was astonished. I cannot even stopped looking thru the bus' glasses to the widely spread whitish. Sometimes I felt that my head is a bit light, float without image as the view was just white, white and white. Still it is beautifully gorgeous.

Sun and ice.
Amazed
 Then the tour brought us to one of the most popular waterfall in Iceland. According to the tour guide, this waterfall was almost been converted to a hydroelectric dam but due to the efforts of a local women, protesting the government on that time, the plan was cancelled and the waterfall remained. Thanks to the brave girl. Plus, a statue of her is said to be built somewhere around the waterfall. Sadly I cannot find it :(

Pondering.
Me and Gullfoss
Closer view.
180 degrees view of the waterfall.
Entrance.
Omamai, this is one of the world gorgeous phenomena. Am really was enjoying the trip. One of the rare world natural occurring that isn't everywhere, Geysir. This place is known as geysir and the phenomena is also call geysir. What a coincidence? Isn't it. 

This geysir will spouted out its hot water up to 24-25 meter up to the sky approximately every 4 minutes. Sometime once and sometime 2-3 in a row. And know what, I got both and it was a.m.a.z.i.n.g. 

The geysir area. Got like 10-15 spots.
See the smoke, all of that is the geysir hole and everyone of the have their own name.
Solomon Stairs.
Another waterfall not far away from the Gullfoss, Solomon Stairs if am not mistaken. Got a history behind the name but I ain't focused enough thus can't really recalled it. Lol

And last stop for the day is a Geothermal  Electric Generator. Iceland convert the hot water here to electrical to supply almost 2/3 of their population. Plus, their population isn't that big thou. Not only that, taking shower here (I mean in Iceland) actually not very comfy because most of the hot water supplied directly from the natural water resource making it got the egg-rotten smell due to the present of sulphur in it. Even it is very good for skin problem, am really not a fan to the smell. Yuckss

As tak mampu nak bayar entrance fee, we just stayed outside, in cold. 

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Best Tour So Far : Reykjavik, Iceland

Indeed it had already been like 2 weeks since my holiday to Iceland. Still the coldness, the people (especially that hot tub grandma) and the waffle are still fresh in my memories. Happiness in all. 8 days and 7 nights well-spent in Iceland was truly one of the best vacation I'd ever had so far and am really looking forward for the next next adventure in my life here.

Poser.
Iceland isn't a very develop country and on 2010, the country almost underwent bankruptcy but due to few reasons, they manage to survive. Thank god. The population here as well are very small making them feel like they are all connected and perhaps causing them to be abit unfriendlier which I hate the most. I don't know it is genetic or what but their people are the most unfriendliest people I have encounter so far. Don't say to speak to us, even to smile was indeed very hard for them. Plus during my stay here, I'd been "dimarahi" or sort of by like 3-4 people. It's like even when they giving advise, still they look mad. I think this really need to be changed.

My very first frozen lake.
With the crime partners.
And my very own first Olaf.
Indeed running thru a frozen lake, back and forth was a new kind of experience for me. The excitement plus the nervousness was truly ripping me inside out. And know what, we even managed to make a very sweet, small little Olaf using like a lump of icy-snow over the road side. Even people walking by keep staring at us, we were still played the ice like a 9 years old boy that just got a nintendo. Blessed.

The church. Hilmigram bla bla bla.
Sitting on ice.
 This one was on my way back to the studio we rented, we saw like a white snowy field and we were just become super excited. The snow was damn white, soft and truly like real snow. Not hail one like in Dublin. We jumped, making a footprint, handprint and even butterfly effect. Just imagine how sakai we all were doing. But still, what the heck, it is not like we'll coming here again.

Fish Burger at Prikid
Prikid was like the oldest restaurant ever existing in Reykjavik City Centre. The environment in the so called bar was indeed nice and welcoming. I like it but a bit hating toward the smell. It smell like alcohol abit. The Fish Burger was indeed amazing and simply mouth watering. Even the fries itself taste so nice and just damn nice. 

Plus, on my second day in Reykjavik, the weather wasn't so welcoming for other but not for us, it snowing and this was what other hate and we love the most. The snow was like a real snow one. Not just hail but indeed quite strong one till like the snow cover the surface of the road. Omai, recalling it make me really wanna go to another snowy country.

My very first snow.
Then, as the weather changing every five minutes, the sun came out again and we just keep strolling thru out, back and forth in the city. Walking thru every single road, dark places and all kind of short cut. In short, the city itself isn't really big thou. Few glamourous places we just stopped by and takes photos. Plus we all had decided that we wouldn't go to any museum as the entrance fee quite expensive. Stingy us. LOL

The Harpa Concert Hall.
The Harbour.
The Harpa, again
The frozen lake.
Harpa on night mode.
And we all Harpar-ing.
Almost every night we will walk from our studio to Harpa for a free hotspot. Such a shame indeed our studio doesn't have any Wi-Fi coverage. At night, as our Northen Light Tour been cancelled, we decided to go for whale meat tasting. LOL, isn't tasting lah, eating and this was first and perhaps last time I'll be eating minked whale's meat. It tastes nice, a bit chewy and rubbery. One thing I know, it is worth try and totally different from any other kind of meat I have tasted.

Minked Whale Meat.
Super nice waffle for our supper.
And this is just the beginning of my trip. Loads of adventure and exciting activities been done and surely gonna be uploaded in the closest possible time. I am indeed a time procrastinateR.