Everything you need to plan an amazing vacation to Iceland!
We spent today at the Family Park and Zoo. Now, this place won’t compete against some of the large and impressive zoos you may have visited in the United States or elsewhere. But the price doesn’t compete either: Adults (anyone 13+): 840 krona, or about $6.80 Kids 5-12: 640 krona, or about $5 Kids under …
We started our day by heading to Sólheimar eco-village. This is a small community centered around organic gardening and including all who want to be a part of it, including those with disabilities. Perhaps their “troll garden” explains it better:
One last day in the Golden Circle area! I’d been seeing this sign around Laugarás, but I didn’t know what it was: You can almost make out the Icelandic … kind of. The middle line is “fresh vegetables” (grænt means green). The last line is the part I didn’t get … But sjálf is self. So …
Today we headed to the other “fancy” spa in the Golden Circle area: Secret Lagoon. The Secret Lagoon just opened in 2014 as a spa, although 125 years ago, this was actually Iceland’s first swimming pool.
Even though I knew that Slakki (Facebook link if the web site doesn’t work) bills itself as a petting zoo, I wasn’t sure what to expect. It’s not too far from the Golden Circle attractions (about 25 minutes from Geysir) and yet there isn’t a whole lot of information about it on the Internet. I’ll reveal …
Today we headed to Laugarvatn Fontana, one of the two “fancy” thermal pools in the Golden Circle region. The other is the Secret Lagoon, which we will visit in a couple of days. (Update: Here is our visit to the Secret Lagoon.) I didn’t really have a great picture in my head of what Fontana …
