For starters, the place in beautiful. Barren, earthy and raw.
The colours of the earth and sea is something that I'll always remember. Jet black sands with speckles of brown and grey, the yellow grass and green moss covered rocks, pristine white snow and the sky that goes from deep grey, to baby blue and then pink and orange at the start of the sunset.
Iceland was a place that completely stilled my mind and headspace. The thoughts that ran through my head on the whole trip were only 'in the moment' thoughts, without any hang ups of life outside of our perfect little trip to the mountains.
We saw waterfalls that you could walk underneath the sheer power and volume of its movements, glaciers that covered huge areas and produced such incredible aqua colours and silence, mountains that were built up of layer upon layer of different coloured rock and soil, roads that seemed to have no ending and no destination, beaches covered in beautiful ice boulders that have broken away from the glaciers and ended up washed onto the shores of the black sanded beaches and thermal heated pools of baby blue.
The place was just still, silent and magical. I can't really explain it in any other words.
I felt as if my lungs were filled with the cleanest air, cleaner than anything I've inhaled before.
It was an expensive place, paying around £8 a pint and £25 a meal. Petrol you could only pay for on card and day light only between the hours on 10am-5pm. But this made no difference to the beauty of the place.
Tips if you're planning a trip to Iceland...
1. Take more money than you think you need.
2. Pre book the Blue Lagoon a good 4/5 days before the day you want to visit.
3. Sod booking onto tours to see the natural wonders, rent a car and do it yourself.
4. Go with someone that wants to get the same as you want out of your trip (which goes for any destination or place!)
5. Take some decent boots and a warm coat.
6. Go in winter, Its so beautiful!
7. Drive from Keflavik to the Diamond Beach.
8. Never think that you wont see the northern lights, because we saw them two nights in a row!
9. Prepare for the water to sometimes smell like sulphur when you're showering, no you don't really smell that bad!
10. DONT scoop up a load of silica from the bottom of the Blue Lagoon because you'll probably find human hair like we did!
11. Go with an open mind and come back with a clear one.
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