"To
speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is
generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." -
Johannes
A. Gaertner
Well,
Iceland is on our bucket list, I must say that me and my husband are
both so grateful about this trip and yes! Iceland, here we are!
We
choose June to come and visit Iceland because of the weather
condition. Summer in Iceland rolled around and we decided to rent a
car to explore the country. Very few people know about the secrets
Iceland has. And finally, we were there, witnessed the 24 hours day
light.
It
took about four hours flight from Paris to Keflavik International
Airport. We landed at 9:20 in the morning. Grabbed our luggages then
straight to the lobby after clearing the immigration.
The
RED car rental guys welcome us at the gate. My husband then, look
after the papers. Signed, then the RED guys handed the key and before
we even know it. We were out on the road, driving in Iceland!
The first
five minutes on the road didn't stopped me from taking photos! Me and
my husband are both very excited about the whole trip. We have our
GPS and after programming to our destination. That's it! All we did
was just to enjoy the beautiful sights of Iceland.
Going to
Akureyri in the North, took for about six hours drive. I know its
tough for my husband driving but the beautiful landscape was enough
to keep us both awake and energized. Akureyri is the 2nd
largest town in Iceland. It is said that its the most populated town
outside Rejkhavik, with 200,000 residents.
ALONG
THE WAY
From the
airport, from left to right, we were looking at volcano lava fields
but will show you more photos later taken somewhere in the south of
Iceland. BUT today's highlights were the countryside landscapes of
northwest Iceland.
There
were also mountains. Then there was the waterfalls. Honestly, we've
never seen so many random waterfalls bursting out of the mountains!
The word AMAZING was floating in the air that time.. lolz..
As we go
further north, the snow caps started appearing. And even some
evidence of volcanic activity! Astonishing beauty out there. I feel
guilty that i'm the only one appreciating the beauty of the nature so
I asked my husband to pull over the car so like this, we both will
enjoy the beauty. It's really exhausting because its like in every 10
minutes there's always something amazing nature to surprise you. For
the past three hours, we've been on the road, in between those
beautiful mountains.
We
finally hit Akureyri at around 8pm. (Yeah, took that long because we
keep stoping along the way.) Akureyri. It's a beautiful town nestled
at the foot of a bunch of mountains, and sits on the coast of the
Artic Ocean. There we spent our first night in Iceland. We stayed at
the Icelandair Hotel Akureyri. Beautiful hotel. What I love about
this hotel was that, they put us at the room facing the mountain
glacier. Really enjoyed this hotel so much too.
Oh well,
I took thousands of photos during our week travel but here, I thought
to share 40 photographs which I took during our trip from Keflavik to
Akureyri. I think, I better share it with you the way we travel too.
Enjoy as much we enjoyed viewing them.
