On December 26th I set off on a 11 day excursion through Western Europe. Icelandic Air allows free stopovers in Iceland, so I landed in Reyjkavik with only 48 hours to see and learn about Iceland. The four things very visitor must do: 1) See the Northern Lights 2) swim in the geothermal pools 3) tour the Golden Circle and 4) experience the Runtur. I did it all.
Iceland Travel Tips:
1) Be Prepared: Iceland is *expensive* by backpacker standards. A slice of pizza? $8.00. A beer? $15.00. Dorm bed: $40. The airport shuttle? $25. Gallon of gas? $8.There are no cheap-eats, no place cheaper to sleep. Just prepared yourself, mentally and financially.
2) The hostel is on the outskirts of town, a far distance from the active downtown area. There are few things nearby.
3) This is Iceland's Friday-night version of Mardi Gras. The Icelandic youth head to friends' houses for a pre-party drinking celebration, then totter down to the locals bars around midnight. The party continues well into the morning, possibly 6 or 7am or so, when the drunken youth head home. The streets are packed as hundreds of individuals drunkenly stumbled from the bars. Then runtur was in full force as I stood, bleery-eyed, in front of my hotel at 5AM Saturday, awaiting my airport shuttle. And this goes on every single Friday, making Iceland one of the hottest party spots in Europe.
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