We made it here. Of course, things don't always go like you imagined. I had planned to sleep all five hours of the flight, because we were going to get to Iceland and hit the road.
But the flight didn't take off at the scheduled time and I really didn't manage to sleep as much as I would have liked to. I was surrounded by babies who would not go to sleep and one particular baby screamed for a very long time. I think I slept about 2 hours, may be three.
We arrived in Keflavík, which is a beautiful airport by the way, close to eight in the morning. There was no line in immigration and everything went very smoothly.
My friend's flight had a longer delay then mine, so I waited for her at the luggage bands. When she arrived we headed straight to get the car and left. We rented the car with what seems to be a local company and it was great. They were super nice. We rented a mobile router to be able to find our way through the island, and that so far has been our best friend.
Icelanders are very nice and happy people, and the women are strikingly beautiful. Our first stop was in a grocery store. We got our goodies and started our drive. I had planned a schedule for us, because I didn't want to spend our precious time here trying to figure out where to go.
So we knew where we were going and how long it was going to take. Driving through Iceland is like driving in a story book, a TV series or a surreal movie. The landscape is breathtaking. The clouds move constantly giving you a sunlight show like no other. There is green everywhere and almost no trees. You see horses, cows, and sheep all over the place. And the air...the air is so pure and clean...Being here just renews your system without you even trying to do so.
Icelanders are aggressive drivers, which was a bit scary at the beginning, but then you get used to it. You have to be careful with the animals on the road. At one point a car in front of us swerved because a bird was flying very low on the road and I ended up doing the same later, but my bird was walking on the road.
We went to a couple of amazingly beautiful waterfalls. Being there is unbelievable and we loved and enjoyed every minute of it. We also went to black beach which has amazing rock formations. The beach was not on the schedule and it was a bit farther than we expected. But it was all worth it.
We closed the day at the Blue Lagoon which was cool, but I am not the kind of person for that place. I rather walk through nature wonders and get my shoes full of mud.
The fact that it is summer and that it really doesn't get dark messes with your mind. It was 10 pm and we completely forgot that we might find businesses that could be closed. Oh well.
I am in love with this place. I thought I wasn't going to be able to survive the whole day without taking a nap at some point, given the fact that I slept little to nothing. But my excitement for being here kept me up and running longer than I expected. I can't wait for our the rest of it!
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