IS ICELAND WORTH THE HYPE? THE GOLDEN CIRCLE 2022

IS ICELAND WORTH THE HYPE? THE GOLDEN CIRCLE 2022

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hello everyone unfortunately this is going to be  the last video from our series here in iceland   for those of you that have been watching  our videos here you'll know that we've been   traveling around the ring road which is pretty  much around the entire island and we've been   here about 10 days and in the last video we  ended it at a place up north called akureri   and now we're actually all the way back down uh  south in the southern region in a place called   flori so we spent two days traveling from there  to here but we didn't really do much filming but   we did a bit of exploring saw just mainly some  little waterfalls we went to one spot that was   really cool though i'll probably show it now  found a beautiful waterfall and finally found   a real natural hot spring so we decided to visit a  waterfall and near the waterfall there's actually   some natural hot springs and chris is brave  enough to go inside i'm not going there but he   is actually swimming and we don't have towels  or anything but he's a brave guy how is it nice   warm yeah well this part is because this is where  like the warm water is coming from yeah let me   show the bubbles over there yeah the bubbles are  coming from here and going to the big pool yeah so   that over there is literally boiling hot water you  can't even put your hand in it for like a second   this part is boiling hot water but if you  come like here it's like mixing uh-huh   didn't even bring my swimming shots no i'm not  naked by the way no no in my underwear yeah   it's probably like minus four or minus three here  that's why i'm cold and i'm not going in so i did   mention in a previous video that in iceland you  can find these spots where you get natural ones   this is for free as well you don't have to pay  obviously in like blue lagoon paid like 90 dollars   in me button paid like 45 but this one is for  free but there's only like one specific spot here   where the boiling water is coming down but it's  fine to stay in even in the super cold weather   the problem is i didn't bring a towel or anything  so yeah it's going to be fun getting out here   i'm not getting out you go carol  i'll just stay here until summer hmm so in this video we're going to be exploring a  place called the golden circle which is actually   the most famous circuit here in iceland and  that's because it's quite close to the capital   reykjavik so yeah usually in like half a day or  a day you can do this circuit so our first stop   is gonna be the geyser or giza depending which  country you're from so apparently it's the second   biggest one in the world the biggest one is in the  usa steamboat 120 meters this one is going to be   around 80 meters still super high so already here  you can see all the geothermal activity going on   the boiling little pools mud pools loads all the  way around kind of like the area that we went to   the other day but that one didn't have the the  geyser the geyser no it's funny because there's   a sign saying that you should not try to put your  hands to check the temperature because it's gonna   burn your hands yeah i think you can tell that  you shouldn't put your hands in these places check it out drones are forbidden so regarding  drones pretty much at all the attractions   you can't film at all even that place like the  diamond beach it said you can't film so in two of   the previous videos we arrived at the car park of  the place and i already got the drone out from the   car and flew it around and then when we started  walking around we saw the signs saying you uh   you couldn't fly the drone there but by that time  i'd already flown it so that was on one of the   first waterfalls as well that i got a drone off  but that's why i haven't really filmed a lot of   stuff with the drone on this trip because yeah  you can't do it so this is where the main geyser   is and apparently it like uh erupts every five  to ten minutes so i guess i'm just gonna have to   film it non-stop to capture it waste all my  battery that's what everybody else is doing whoa well that only took 20 seconds yeah but  it hadn't erupted since we were here so no   but it's a very strong uh noise did you capture  it yeah i captured it i was filming perfectly so it is pretty frequent we've seen about four so  far the one was small and then it was like three   big ones and it's pretty much like every four  to ten minutes they say so far it seems to have   been like every four or five minutes so you don't  have to wait that long what's that say over there   nature does not care for your money when you  throw it into the boiling hot water you're   polluting and littering the area if you want  to help someone by giving them money please do   don't throw it here don't throw it here this pool looks beautiful it's almost like   i don't know like snowy crystal icy edges on  it like a hole in there as well interesting so we've come to our next stop  of the day which is a waterfall   called gulpos and we're in the parking  lot and check out this vehicle here that's like one of the craziest vehicles that  i've ever seen so you can do tours in these   things and they obviously take you to spots  where it's basically impossible for cars to go   we didn't see any that big on in any other  areas of the island did we i think it's the   biggest tire i've ever seen in my life probably  it's like bigger than me yeah go towards it wow it is it's the same size as you  wow so this is the first viewing deck that's crazy yeah i think it's the biggest one  yeah i think that is the biggest out of all of   them it's actually a few right like loads loads  of different faults loads of different viewpoints   around here as well i think we can also head  a bit further down we'll check them all out all right time to do some ice skating whoa kyle doing some ice skating nope from  this viewpoint you can get a better view of   the lower falls so i think in the summer you  can usually walk along the path there below   and that would obviously be way better because  you're like right next to the waterfall but   yeah right now in the winter it's off limits hey no oh like an icebreak yeah but yeah since we  have the the jacket it doesn't hurt yeah   so we've just come to the souvenir shop at the  side of the waterfall i'm just getting a bracelet   like i always get in the country's 1690.  what do you get in there a keychain yeah around here they always have the clothes  made out of the icelandic wolf super thick   i love the designs as well i think that's like  over a hundred dollars over here they have the   socks as well really thick socks should have got  a pair of those at the start of the trip 1990. we've now come to a spot called silfra also on  the golden circle and we're going to be doing   a snorkeling tour here so once again we're gonna  do the tour with troll expeditions in a previous   video we did the crystal blue ice cave tour with  them and that was one of the best experiences and   one of the best things that we've seen on this  island so on our last day we've decided to do   another tour with them which is the snorkeling  here at silfra and it's cool because here we get   the chance to swim between two tectonic plates so  iceland has a big rift going through the middle of   it because one side is the north american tectonic  plate and the other side is the eurasian tectonic   plate and there's a part here where you can  yeah swim swim through it so pretty sure it   might be the only chance we'll ever have to to do  that and that's also why you get all this crazy   volcanic activity here on the island because it  is on top of these two tectonic plates and the   price of the tour is 17 400 per person so we're  just in the parking lot now and yeah we're gonna   head there to meet them so we're half dressed up  right now beneath we had to bring our own thermals   and then they gave us this other thermal like  overall so now we're putting the other wetsuit yes you should get your nose and your mouth out maybe  all right so you can actually breathe like this never looked better carol i look like a  fangling okay we've got all our gear now   time to head into the ice cold water that's hard life here the penguin yeah cool yeah so as soon as you guys come in and  you put your hands in you can feel the water   coming into your cloth right yeah it feels a  bit cold but like i said you are gonna warm   this up so don't worry about this the same  is gonna happen to your hood up top here it   might feel a bit like a brain freeze so also a  bit cold but it's going to go away very quickly   all right so what you also feel is your  legs being quite tight right it's the   water pressure it's compressing your suit  and it's moving all the air in your suit up   here see sukhi looks like she has huge muscles  muscles right big muscles um it's the same for   all of us see how much air there is in here  um but as soon as we start floating the air   is gonna be mostly on your back and it's gonna  be a bit more comfortable than it is right now oh this is so cool always remember america  is to your right and europe is to your left   so up there the cathedral you can see the two  tectonic walls drop down to 25 that's very pretty all right into the bright blue once again so uh so at the end they go some nice warm hot  chocolate and a chocolate bar yeah to warm   up especially since it's raining now is that the  tour that we did the other day no i think that's   hiking right yeah they also have that glacier  hiking they have like ice climbing snorkeling   ice caving if we had more time we'd probably do  this kayaking around the iceberg that'd be cool so we drew about 10 minutes from  where we were in the parking lot   parking lot was actually just there  and right now we're on top of the   north american tectonic plate so how cool is this  like this huge edge here is the tectonic plate   so this place has this really  awesome walkway here look at that yeah first time right next to a tectonic plate  with a huge crack down the middle as well   so these two tectonic plates are actually  drifting apart they're not coming together around   two centimeters every year and from what i read  that creates like a lot of tension in the earth   and around every 10 years they have earthquakes  and that's when that tension is released all right so we're warming up for the last time  here in iceland going to our final hot spring   and this is the oldest man-made hot spring in  iceland so this one is called a secret lagoon   and it was built in 1891.  people have been chilling   in hot springs since 1891. yeah that's a good  idea cold place yeah check out that picture so this is very different to the  other ones that we've shown before   this one looks a bit more like natural i guess  kind of looks like a farm area around it and we   came here yesterday didn't we yeah we decided  to come back because we really liked this   yeah i guess you just love hot springs  now yeah how much was this overall like   i think it was like 9 000 but that's because i  got a towel and i also got this other beer bali   icelandic and you got chardonnay yeah wine yeah  wine a lot colder today so it's way more like   misty yeah yesterday was kind of sunny yeah it  was like this yes it was kind of warm i like   this bear though let's go to our spot that we  found yesterday back there we found a good spot so there's this old building here me  and carol think maybe it's like the   changing rooms from the past like the late  1800s or early 1900s and this spot's good   because uh yeah there's a slight shallow area  so you can sit down yeah this has been one   of my favorite parts about iceland going in  the hot springs and having a nice cold beer   house of the wine good it's a mini one  yeah it's just one glass where is it from   from the place that we're going next  after iceland top secret place then   that's the spoiler though it's a place  that has wine yeah and it's close to here later on after the hot springs we ended up eating at a  restaurant that we ate at yesterday and it was   so good that we wanted to eat there again and  we ordered the exact same food again so it's an   ethiopian restaurant we had never eaten ethiopian  food before very rarely see ethiopian restaurants   anywhere but yeah the food is absolutely delicious  it was called uh mine so if you're going to those   hot springs definitely recommend eating there  because yeah it's just so tasty kind of like   uh spicy reminded us a bit of like indian food  didn't it yeah but less spicy yeah less spicy   but you kind of like eat with your hands as well  yeah yeah it was interesting and very delicious   yeah very tasty and this is the end of our trip  now we're gonna head to the airport it's about   a two-hour drive from here because we're leaving  like early in the morning like two or three in the   morning so yeah we're gonna make our way there and  yeah it's just been absolutely incredible trip so   this was like carol's uh dream trip the the trip  that you wanted to do the most right yeah so i had   very high expectations and i was kind of afraid of  not being so good but it was even better than what   i was expecting i loved it and i want to come back  yeah we were both saying that uh it would have   been good if we had two weeks instead of 10 days  because some things we did actually skip it would   be better to even have longer than two weeks to be  honest there's just so many things to do here it's   it's crazy that's one of the main things that  surprised us about this place because sometimes   you go to travel destinations and you might have  a few attractions right a few main attractions but   as you're driving around iceland there's just so  many attractions it's it's just insane and they're   all like mind-blowing as well they're like all  extraordinary it's not like normal things that   you see i think it's also because we've come in  the winter as well so everything looks like this   like snowy paradise and then you get even more of  the contrast right between the snow and like the   volcanic stuff the the opposites so yeah it's just  some crazy mix that we've never seen anywhere else   and yeah i can see why people go crazy about this  place we'll definitely come back and we'd like to   come in the summer because apparently it's a  completely different place like unrecognizable   if you come in the summer but we would also want  to come in there in the winter again obviously it   is very expensive you can't really do iceland on a  budget i don't think everything is just expensive   a lot of the attractions are free though but just  all the other things that you have to pay for uh   are quite a lot compared to many countries that  we go but yeah it's definitely worth all the money   that we've spent for sure so if you like this  video just drop a like on the video to 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2022-03-27 19:22

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