Well, I said yesterday that we were making a rare visit to a museum!
Well it wasn’t that one!!
It was this one.
After breakfast we headed out to the local bus stop, we had tickets for the Hop-on Hop-Off bus as well as the Perlan Museum. The museum is all about Iceland and has some great immersive type movies.
We caught the bus and headed off to the museum. Time slots were issued for entry, so we expected huge crowds, wrong! We were early, but it wasn’t a problem, we were just slotted into the next tour. Unfortunately, for the most part, photography was not allowed.
The first movie was just a “normal” movie on the geology of the island over the last 40 million years. The next was an Imax type production showing an eruption of one of the volcanoes in 2021.
The third was a planetarium showing of the aurora and the science behind it.
The final part of the tour was to an ice cave. Representative of caves around Iceland, it was made of real ice with a temperature of -15C. I’m sure some of you in the UK would like to visit that right now!!
One photo we were allowed to take was of a cliff face with hundreds of (model) birds on it. Find the puffin in the picture below.
There was an observation deck at The top of the museum, so we headed up there to get some pictures of the city.
Above is Hallgrímskirkja, it is the Lutheran Church of Iceland built between 1945 and 1986.
Yesterday I mentioned the roadsides were full of lupins, but the pictures didn’t come out too well. Here are some more lupins!
We had lunch at the museum, then headed off to the bus for a tour of the city.
Above is the Harpa, the Opera House / Music hall of Iceland
Above is the Reykjavik Town Hall, built out into the lake.
After the bus trip we took a walk along the bustling shopping and social area of Reykjavik (the tourist office words, not mine). It was pretty deserted, with more small restaurants then shops!
I had one final thing to do, find an Icelandic Geocache. Luckily there was one about 300 meters away, which I found.
This is our last night in Iceland, we head off to the airport tomorrow morning. We’ll have some time to spare there, so I’ll write a summary then.