How to See Iceland in One Day

First, you get a tour guide who knows a lot. Private tour too.  He brought us around the whole country!  Well, part of the country. The part they call the Golden Circle.  It was amazing to see so much in one day.  

We went to the continental divide.  That is where two tetonic plates are drifting apart.  One once every year.  That means Iceland gets bigger every year.  And the cool thing is you can be on two different plates almost at the same time.  One side is Eurasia and the other side is North American. These two plates pulling apart make the country of Iceland have a lot of volcanos! 

Next, we got to drink water from a glacier! So cool. I didn’t drink it.  I touched it.  Mom and dad drank some. They said it was good.  The water is 1000 years old! That is the oldest thing I’ve ever touched.  

Then we drove to see some geysers. On the way we saw steam coming up EVERYWHERE. This makes it so the people of Iceland get to swim in geothermal pools.  Still figuring out what geothermal means, but they share the heat from the earth with everyone in the country. They really like how they get heat and power from the earth.  

We went to a huge waterfall that use to belong to a farmer whose daughter swore that she would drown her self in the falls if he sold it to a rich British man who wanted to use it to make a power plant. She fought hard and after her death her family gave it to the government, but made the government promise to never change it.  

After the waterfall we went to see see a part of the country that has bubbling mud. It’s too hot to touch and you have to be carful and stay on the path because steam erupts out of the ground without telling you.  

Finally we were driven to a local geothermal pool where we sat in hot tubs and I swam in a huge pool. Beat my dad swimming too.

Talk to you later.  I’m in Paris now. Bye!!!!!