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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 …
Today we headed to two of the major attractions in Iceland, both part of the Golden Circle. We started at Gullfoss: That’s taken from the upper viewing area. Here’s a shot from the end of the lower path you can see in the picture above:
