Visiting Mývatn

On our way to Lake Mývatn we went sight seeing.First we stopped at a waterfall called Goðafoss and that means waterfall of the gods.It was very moist on the cliff right by the waterfall,and in the picture I’m standing on the misty cliff in front of the  waterfall. But you do not want to fall in the water because in five minutes you will get hypothermia and ........................... Anyway the waterfall was forty feet high and one hundred feet wide.

(Now were talking about a volcano that we hiked up and that also blew off its top in
700 BC and is no longer active) After the waterfall we did a couple more things
( two) and then went to hike a volcano that exploded and blew its top around 700 BC. It was not really a hike it was more of a diagonal steep trail that was 450meters to the top of the cone. When we got up to the top it was very windy but it was so cool it was all black and dark gray volcanic rocks.The edge around the volcano was wide enough for five or six people to walk around the whole volcano and if you walked all the way around you would have walked a kilometer.We did not walk all the way around,but as we were walking we looked down in the cone and spotted a person in the cone he or she looked like a tiny spec.It looked like the person was walking to the island in the middle.We could not find a trail down so we decided not to go down. After taking pictures and picking up a few rocks, we went back down.


At the end of our trip to Mývatn we went to a hot springs that had murky light blue water so you could not see the bottom. I could not believe that that was the real color of the hot springs (the hot spring water also smells like smoke bombs). In iceland before you swim in pools or protected hot springs, first you take shoes off and put them on a rack and then you go in to either the mens or woman’s bath room and you pick a locker put your stuff in and keep your bathing suit out. You take off your clothes and do not get in your bathing suit yet. Then you go and shower with soap and then you put your swim suit on. Now you are ready to jump in the hot springs.