We take the Golden Circle Tour on our port call in Reykjavik, Iceland.
It was great. We booked it online through Gray Line Iceland. It was €68 ($73 US).
It lasted about 7 hours. We visited 3 of Iceland’s most famous sights:
Gullfoss Waterfalls, Geysir Hot Springs and Thingvellir National Park.
This was recorded in August 2022.
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Very nice.
Was to Iceland on a repositioning cruise a number of years ago and we only saw Reykavik and some geysers.
Happy Father's Day Gareth! Well done vlog. Such a beautiful waterfall and love the geysirs footage! I'm so glad you guys finally got your luggage. Was this the first time you guys have experienced having an airline lose your luggage? I would love to see a vlog on how you deal with that situation. If it ever happened to us, I wouldn't want to let it upset us so much that it ruined our cruise. I know you can buy some new clothes on the ship, but they don't have everything..like undergarments right?
Not sure how much they covered on the tour but thingvellir is important because it’s where the first independent Icelandic law was set forth. I believe it was every year or every few years the thing (law keepers) would stand on a large rock with the whole population around and recite the law from. Memory-including any new laws that had been adopted since the previous recitation. therefore thingvellir national park imortalizes that important piece of Icelandic history. I wonder if the rock everyone was standing on was the rock where the Althing took place? Possibly. Also interesting factoid-in ancient Iceland while the law setting was down to just a few wealthier citizens, anyone could make a complaint or suggest a law or punishment, but it was up to the citizens themselves to uphold the law and the punishments. Meaning someone could be sentenced to have their hand cut off for example but it was up to the persons community to actually follow through. Most likely banishment was more prevalent then any corporal punishment though.