We’ve been here about a week now. The first three days were defined by jet-lag. No idea why but it seems to have hit us harder this time than on previous trips. We slept about 15 hours the first night and then promptly crashed for a couple more after we ate. If this is an indicator, our upcoming Reykjavic to Cairns flight should put us down for a week or two.
As others have expounded, Iceland is very expensive. A simple main course for dinner or lunch seems to run around 3000kr which is about $35 (Cdn $ for those in the land of Trump). Something at a nicer restaurant fairly quickly gets to 5000kr or $60. Then add wine (1500kr) and maybe an appetizer or dessert (1700kr each) and you can see it starts to add up. Even breakfast can easily be 1900kr. Accommodations, gas, and other goods all seem to scale to match.
On Monday, we picked up our vehicle for our trek around Iceland. There was the minor confusion as I took us to the wrong rental agency (Go Iceland and Go Campers Iceland are different companies, though both rent campers). A few thousand kr later for cab fares, we’re at the correct agency. I’m not going to expound too much on how unimpressed we are with the camping aspect of the vehicle. Suffice to say it isn’t very well designed. It does drive well and we’ve appreciated its size and clearance on our trip, but it isn’t an ideal setup for extended camping. This is a our third camper van trip and the first we’ve had any issues.
That all said, we are enjoying ourselves. We’ve voyaged south along the coast. Our first stop was to see a couple of falls. The Gljúfrabúi Waterfall
and the Seljalandsfoss
are only about a ten minute walk apart. If you look very closely at the second picture, you can see a line of people walking behind the cascade..
We camped at a site very close to the Gljúfrabúi fall for our first night. The Gljúfrabúi is also referred to as the Troll’s Gorge waterfall after the small cut in the cliff which houses it. And where there is a Troll’s Gorge, there is a Troll’s Cave.
