Golden Circle Tour & Snow Mobiling!

Super Jeep

Day 4 in Iceland continues with the popular Golden Circle Tour, which hits up many of the major attractions of Mother Nature that one must see when visiting Iceland.  The all-day tour traverses across Iceland's rugged terrain and requires special-equipped "Super Jeeps" to take you around -- they were more like Monster Trucks and our tour guide was adventurous enough to take us off-roading, as well, which was quite the treat!

First stop was the breath-taking Gulfoss Waterfall.  Not as big as Niagra Falls, but the view was amazing, nonetheless.

Gulfoss Waterfall

Gulfoss



Dog Sledding



I was originally supposed to go Dog Sledding for this Day #4 in Iceland, but there was a last minute change in plans, as there wasn't enough snow for the dogs to go sledding, so we had to cancel the dogsledding, but go SNOW MOBILING instead!  As consolation, we were able to visit briefly with the dogs at their camp site, on the way to go snow mobile.  After visiting with the dogs, it probably worked-out better that we didn't go dog sledding -- while I've made a lot of progress getting over my fear of dogs, these big dogs were still kinda aggressive even chained-up!  Note the "fear" on my face just trying to get through a picture with the dogs, hehe. 

The main attraction of the day:  Snow Mobiling on Langjokull Glacier (Iceland's second largest glacier)!  Being on the snow mobile was exhiliarating and we were very lucky that after many days of rain and fog, today was perfect blue skies with tons of sunshine, so the snow mobile tour guide leader actually gave us even more time snow mobiling on the glacier with extra time.

As if our day wasn't already fulfilling enough after the snow mobiling, we still had a few sites to soak-up.  Because of Iceland's unique geology consisting of active tectonic plates and volcanoes, you actually see certain mountainous areas emitting gas and steam.  One of these areas has a famous Geysir that shoots water every 9 minutes, so you have tons of tourists who line around the circle waiting to catch the water Geysir spout.  It's hard waiting for the Geysir to erupt with your camera on cue -- my arms got tired snapping the shots, so hope you especially appreciate these images!



Starts with Nothing

Steam Starts to Build

   

  At its peak, the Geysir's height can be almost as tall as the Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral in Reykjavik.

Kerio Crater

Last stop of the Golden Circle Tour was the Kerio crater, which was another impressive sight to see....All and all, it was another very successful and adventurous day; an extremely rewarding experience......