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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 …
We left Hafnarfjörður and headed toward the Golden Circle area. Our first stop was the Onpower Geothermal Energy Exhibition. You will see the steam as you drive past on Route 1. The buildings are massive, but the Visitor’s Center is in the small “arrow” in the middle.
We stopped by the Viking Village in Hafnarfjörður, though there wasn’t much going on around lunchtime. The chickens seemed pretty happy, though!
We’ve taken some time to relax the last few days in Hafnarfjörður, a town about 20 minutes outside of Reykjavik. We spent some time shopping in Kringlan, the largest mall in Reykjavik. It turns out that designation is a bit of a technicality, since Kringlan is 7 minutes away from the larger Smáralind, which is the largest mall …
As we started to head out of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, we saw a sign for an attraction, and a fair number of cars parked. It didn’t look like much from the road:
Lots of travel these days as we make our way out of the Westfjords and down toward Reykjavik. We stayed close to Eiríksstaðir, a museum housed on the site of the longhouse home of Erik the Red and Leif the lucky. And so we had some time to visit there.
