Thursday May 27, 2021: Day 10, the last day of our drive around Iceland road-trip (excluding stay in Reyjavik). The weather this morning was cold and windy turning very warm and sunny as we moved West. We made a visit to the black sand beach of Reynisfjara, just outside of our hotel village of Vik, before beginning what proved to be a waterfall tour of South Iceland.
Our first waterfall of the day was Skógafoss on the Skógá River. You can get very close to the bottom of this fall, There is also a 472 step staircase leading to a platform the top of the falls (I counted on the hike up and again on the way down). A very nice stop.
The next waterfall was the Seljalandsfoss. Here we were able to walk behind the waterfall. Very picturesque. I can say that we saw more tourists on the road, in the parking lots today then we have seen in the other 9 days combined.
We traveled several miles of gravel and paved road to reach our last waterfall stop of the day, beautiful waterfall of Gullfoss, There are very nice, wide paths to the upper and lower viewing areas, we went to the upper. We took photos and drove on the to view the Strokkur hot spring geyser at Geysir. This was our last stop of the day before heading back to where this 1725-mile circumnavigation all began, our hotel in Reykjavik.
We managed to go almost all the way around the country, much of our trip on gravel roads, but it was on a nice, paved road 50 miles from the end that a car going the other way kicked up a rock and put a crack in our windshield. We try to get it repaired tomorrow before returning the car as we suspect it will be cheaper than the rental company would charge us.
Tomorrow is Covid-19 testing at 9 am (we are required to test within 3 days of flying into USA) then go find a windshield chip repair place. Saturday is volcano viewing day, hoping that the rain lets up on Saturday…
We made it back to Reykjavik! 1,725 miles to circumnavigate around the entire country in 10 days… We had an early dinner (we shared cauliflower wings and fish & chips).
