FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ICELAND REYKJAVIK & BLUE LAGOON
hello everyone here from the capital of iceland reykjavik we've mentioned in previous videos that iceland has always been a country that's been at the top of our list at the top of our bucket list for places to visit so we're going to have about 10 days here overall quite a lot of time and we're planning on doing a lot of different things and the place that we're staying carol got a good deal it's around 88 a night it's kind of hard to find anywhere cheaper than a hundred dollars here obviously iceland is one of the most expensive countries in the world to travel there's a nice little place though a nice little apartment so over here we have a kitchen so that we can keep our costs down so yeah yesterday we got some snacks here that we just had for for breakfast like toast and stuff so that was good and then yeah the bathroom here it's all like joint together carol looks very ready for iceland yes i've been waiting for this trip for so long so i'm very excited yeah i think this is like the place you wanted to come the most out of everywhere yeah it was on the top of my list and yeah we're finally here yeah it's real all right so just to give you an idea of where we are uh reykjavik is here the bottom corner so yeah that is all of iceland so on this trip we plan on doing a trip all the way around if the weather permits yes that's the place where i stay in downtown reykjavik apartments it's kind of snowing already or there's more rain i think it's rain yeah rain yeah check it out though full of ice and snow everywhere so right now it's around like uh zero degrees and from what i checked the highest is like one degree and the lowest is uh minus one so it's like the same temperature all day hey carol i think we go that way yeah the machine cleaning the snow yeah check that out well that's the walkway they're walking yeah yeah well we're walking in the middle of the road right now yes i guess these guys pass all day they also clear up the roads as well gotta watch out when you're walking because yeah it is very icy and slippery it's not so bad though is it no i hope i won't fall we'll see the one thing that's guaranteed is this is going to be the place where carol finally sees snow falling properly i mean look now it's all ready yeah a little bit but i think you're going to see some real legit heavy snow oh look at the park here colorful little park i haven't even seen snow falling since i left uh england which was like 13 14 years ago and even in england in manchester it would only be just like a few days of the year but i think we're gonna see a lot of snow around here awesome are you feeling the cold now yeah thank you it's enough it's enough already it's enough snow for me back to brazil yeah back to the tropical beaches no just kidding i i still think this is so beautiful i mean all the white and i don't know it's just a different kind of scenery for us yeah yeah it's beautiful all right and this is the first attraction of the day so i'm not even gonna try and pronounce the name of this church right here but this one of the main attractions here in reykjavik and that is the tallest church in iceland really unusual style right it's almost like uh steps going all the way up never seen a church like that before and it's uh 75 meters high and in front of the church here we have a statue of a man called uh leif eriksen or life eriksen and it's been determined that he actually set foot in north america in the americas uh 600 500 600 years before christopher columbus so yeah he's a explorer a nordic explorer nice and warm in here yeah wow look at the size of the organ i think that's the biggest organ i've ever seen yeah same that's what i was gonna say yeah i like the song relaxing song yeah it's different from what is usually played in churches all right now it's official this is yeah this is the thick snow and hear the bears drifting around here where are they at i don't know they're freezing today yeah maybe they're hot they're hiding because it's very cold and snowy yeah but i can't hear them singing yeah chirping away i've liked the buildings around here so far it's really colorful isn't it got like yellow olive green reds blues there yeah a lot of the buildings are colorful all the way around here perfect that's a cool looking store isn't it yeah look at that little store there oh check out this building as well it's the psychedelic building what is it like a cafe yeah i think so wow that's one cool cafe oh yeah look at that yummy what's the prices there fish soup 1890 corona what's that burger 2 390 growner yeah we'll eat something yeah in a bit later on yeah yeah you go ice skating here yeah you want to use the the health fixtures right i did so now we're on the seafront very close to the church you can actually see the the church back there and we're next to this uh famous sculpture here so that is called the sun voyager supposed to represent the exploration and the dream of finding undiscovered lens so it almost looks like a viking ship or something pretty unusual i think normally you'd be able to see a mountain back there but it's completely in the clouds right now so i can't see much at all it's not a busy capital is it even with traffic no it's not i'm not sure if it's because we're not in the like the high season but there was a lady that told us that there's more tourist tourists now than it usually has in in february and because we're in the end of ever but still it's not busy or it's just like a nice amount of tourists yeah the lady that we met said that february march i like the harshest yeah the harshest time to come here yeah it's like proper winter in iceland that's when we came yeah we came to see the aurora borealis the northern lights the northern knights i'm not sure if you're gonna be able to see it because it's very cloudy and snowy but fingers crossed yeah we have 10 days so i hope i hope we can see it yeah me too uh so regarding the entry requirements to enter iceland about two days ago they lifted all the requirements so right now there are absolutely no covered rules whatsoever you can enter without doing any tests you don't have to be vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask anywhere now even indoors so it's basically going back to how things were before covert like in 2019 so this is the first country that we've come to on our travels since covert where everything is just back to normal so yeah i think that might end up happening to quite a few countries this year but this is the first one carol's brought her new coat out yeah because it's raining and this is waterproof yeah your other one wasn't right yeah so before this trip we went to a decathlon in portugal and we got some like really thick coats this one apparently can handle uh minus 10 degrees so yeah i'm feeling pretty good my body anyway my fingers are a bit sore and it was only 39 euros yeah 39 euros mine was 40 euros 40 euros yeah decathlon is really good really affordable place and good quality foreign so this area here is apparently a famous square in the center i don't know how you say that so that's how it would have looked in 1820 just like uh farmland i think that's the square that we're on right now and that chair looks pretty similar to the one that's still there right now obviously renovated yeah was built in 1790 ah so it actually has the the date on this church 1847 so yeah it's not the same one but that's still pretty old porky pig keep it warm well this is a really nice area isn't it might be the nicest area so far all these more like traditional looking uh buildings around here so this sign here says that uh these streets here are some of the oldest in iceland so it says this is where the fishermen will have set up to sell fish yeah i think this is like the shops that they would have built i did read that online that there's some areas here where it's like the old fishing shop so i think it's all these buildings right here yeah so here in the harbour is where you can do all the boat tours around here puffin watching a cute bird whale safari i wonder if they still have the tours in in this weather yeah it seems like they're all open i think whale watching is the main tour to do we're watching oh the mix wow so the water is actually a really nice color here didn't expect that it's like an emerald color yeah you want to jump in not really wow these ships look pretty cool i think that's like the tow boat there this will be for other things so to eat we've come to a convenience store here called 1011. kind of like the ones you get in uh asia like thailand like uh 7-eleven you can get like little snacks and stuff so i got two hot dogs hot dogs are actually famous here in iceland and that was a 350 peach and carol got a big slice of pizza and what's that like a garlic stick garlic bread garlic bread and what's at yes yep so i guess this is like the cheaper food options around here so in another video we'll eat at like a proper restaurant to see how that is i know that uh fish is very popular here as well like fish and chips just like the uk that's like ice there we go been a while so this right here is the city lake as you can see it's completely iced over right now the large majority of it but there is this little part here that somehow yeah it's not ice man how did they handle it i don't know i have no idea it's crazy yeah it's got loads of swans there all over the place got a better view from down here yeah how are these guys handling this all right time to get into our frozen rental car and look at that uh suzuki four-wheel drive that's carol's view for driving wishes luck so we rent in this car for about 10 days and it was with a place called go car rental i think that's the name go go rental and it's about 77 us dollars a day and that's with some basic insurance for like collisions and stuff so yeah we're going to be driving around in this thing every day and right now we're going to head to probably the most popular spot in this area a thermal pool called blue lagoon to warm up so this is some pretty intense first day driving for carol the girl that's never seen snow properly yeah i'm trying to be very careful and drive very slow yeah and it is snowing super heavy at the moment 33 minutes to go all right here we go blue lagoon iceland man this place is really in the middle of nowhere isn't it yeah wow but the drive was beautiful yeah everything is white yeah there's nothing no buildings parking lot is packed so i'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of people here yeah the drive here was basically just this all the time although here's pretty unusual it's like black rock almost interesting even this already looks beautiful doesn't it yeah all right we are ready so right now it's like zero degrees just had to take a quick shower in there first man gotta get in here asap oh man oh how nice is this man i wonder what temperature this is inside i don't know maybe 28 or something no i think it's warm huh it's hard to tell because the outside temperature is so cold my face is still cold yes i didn't film much inside because it was all like changing rooms and like naked dudes and stuff like that so it's not really appropriate for this video but it turns out that it cost us like 185 dollars that's for the both of us not each and when we checked online it was uh it showed 66 dollars so we thought it would be that but the guy said it's only that price if you book like weeks or months in advance but you don't say that online it kind of tricks you so since we've driven all the way here obviously we're gonna pay it right now it feels worth it anyway wow look at this though that looks so cool with like the what is it like steam or something it's a huge pool as well like the place inside is packed in the parking lot but i think the pool is so big that you can't tell and we get some free alcoholic drink right one just one yeah you can buy more if you want yeah but i feel like 20 or something i don't even know what price it'll be and i think we got like a face scrub like a mud face scrub it's actually raining right now as well so you get like these ice cold raindrops but then all your body is just like steaming hot it's great all right well we've definitely found where the bar is i think this is a big queue right yeah yeah there's the bar all right so got the beer i guess that's a iceland beer ghoul and yours is what white wine yeah nice so i like the beer taste as well really really nice beer the only problem holding the beer now is that my hand is freezing and i don't want to put it below because uh yeah i don't know why i'm the bear and then my other hands hold in the the gopro so i'm screwed now so this sign here says that this well is 38 degrees geothermal sea water being channeled into the lagoon from 2000 meters within earth wow your face isn't like ice cold yeah my fingers too like from holding the alcohol so if you go underwater you can actually like hear the the sound of the pump yeah yeah the pump's right here so it's really warm this part because we're getting like the beginning well there's a bunch of pumps right yeah it is salty as well for water oh it's too relaxing there's no time limit by the way so yeah you can just spend however however long you want the entire day entire money yeah then it'll definitely be worth the 185 dollars yeah so they had three different scrubs um i forgot which one this is exactly lovely the beauty session okay got the mirrors as well perfect thank you let's do this looking good carol and i look even more beautiful after this i hope so me too all right let's cross yet another bridge so some areas on the edge they have like little seats so you can just sit and chill that's what we're going to do you said 10 minutes right we take it off well she said 10 minutes until it dries but i don't think it's gonna dry because it's raining oh yeah yeah we look like two clowns i didn't do a good job of mine no yours is way more complete all right time to remove the mask and reveal the beauty not sure about the second part you have some on your hair hello i look 10 years younger 10 years younger carol all right i think i got it all oh so we're back at the apartment now ended up leaving uh that place really relaxed so yeah that was amazing very expensive as i mentioned but uh yeah still a great experience and yeah you've probably seen during the day like the price of the car and then the price of this place and then the blue lagoon ended up spending like way over 300 right and if we ate in proper restaurants and stuff easily go over 400 a day i think here in iceland and that's kind of us doing stuff a bit cheaper i guess like the car rental was a cheaper option that we found and also this place is a cheaper option so yeah i guess people spend i don't know 500 600 a day easy but we knew that even before we came here we've read a lot about iceland and seen many videos so yeah we were expecting this and it's probably going to be similar on the other days and tomorrow we're going to be leaving the capital already to already begin our trip around the island on what they call the ring road so yeah we'll be leaving in the morning and there should be some amazing sights on the way so if you enjoyed this video just drop a like to support us subscribe like see more videos like this one follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next you
2022-03-15 23:01
