We headed out early in the morning to start the Golden Circle, which is a drive around the southern part of Iceland, that hits three of the biggest tourist attractions. We started at Kerið, (which wasn't part of the Golden Circle) a volcanic crater lake with beautiful red rocks and turquoise-blue water.
Our first stop on the Golden Circle tour was Gullfoss, a gigantic waterfall that's fed by a glacier, that plummets the water down 32 meters (104 feet). There were so many tourists that it was hard to get decent pictures, but as we got closer to it, we put our cameras away because we wanted to soak in the beauty of it all. Our second stop was Geysir. It started raining on our walk there, and the smell of sulfur did not make our journey there very pleasant. We watched the geyser spout twice, and heard a lot of "oohs" and "ahhs" from the people behind us. Our third and last stop was Þingvellir National Park, which was super cool because we got to walk right between the continental plates of Eurasia and North America. We walked around the whole park for about an hour to take pictures and soak in the view. * Bonus, we got to see a herd of horses run past our car in the middle of the street (there were like 30 of them), and we also found a cute lil place that let you pet them!
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