Today, we all ate breakfast at 9. We left at 10:30 and drove to the town Bourgarnes and parked in a parking lot with a grocery store/convenience store/post office(;)) We were planning on staying there for an hour or so but ended up staying for about 2 1/2 hours because our bus broke down. I bought a bag of trail mix and a banana smoothie in a bottle. Then, most of us went to the gas station convenience store and looked around. We tried to push the bus but sadly it did not move haha.
We decided to eat lunch in the convenience store but i decided to get a vegan sandwich in the grocery store and I called my Mom (Hi Mom!). Our new bus finally came and we drove to the hottest thermal springs in the world (whoa)! A lot more sulphur smells aka egg smell. I was feeling very tired because I'm slowly catching up on my sleep. After that, we drove to this church where one of the first thermal pools is.
There was beautiful greenery everywhere. We hopped back on the bus and and drove to the ice cave information center where we got on their once NATO used bus to drive up to the cave. The bus was huge and obviously military looking. The views up to the cave were indescribable. There was snow everywhere. Packs and packs of snow. There were mountains with packed snow. The sun was shining bright, making the snow glisten like crazy. I had no words. We finally got up to the entrance of the ice camp. It was hard to tell where the snow/ice ended and where the sky started at the horizon. The clouds overlapped/blended in with the snow. We went in the cave and stayed in there for about 2 hours. Our guide was the bomb-an older guy who is an avid climate change believer told us that we (the young people) will be the ones that save the planet, which was pretty awesome. Langjokull, the name of the glacier means long glacial. Into the Glacier project took 6 years in preparation with help from Iceland's top engineers, geologists, glaciologists, artists, and architects. The glacier ice in the cave is about 30-35 years old. The whole cave tunnel is 500 meters long and the largest of its kind in the world. When we left the amazing ice cave/glacier, we got back in our bus and drove to a waterfall nearby and spent at least and an hour there exploring and awing at it. We left there and drive back to our hostel and awed at the beautiful sunset. It was the best and most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. I was amazing and it brought me to tears. We got back at midnight and hadn't eaten dinner yet. We were going to make chili but we decided instead to make sandwiches and head to bed. It was a long and tiring day but one of my favorites so far.
Our guide is in the orange.
Some LED lights in the ice-melting is minimal because the lights eventfully turn off. They don't stay on all the time.
Outside the ice cave
Me at the entrance:
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