A FINAL DAY

With just the two of us we took off with our Icelandic friend and guide, Linda, to see some special places in the Capital city. We traveled to another waterfront area to see the beautiful opera house and read the line up of this years entertainment. Wow! They get some big name acts in this small country. The opera house was mostly all glass and a site to behold. This part of downtown Reykjavik was just bursting with new buildings and enterprises. The new influx of tourists was bringing on much needed capitol to a sleepy little country that had exploded with visitors. 3 years ago, when we visited in June, there were barely one million visitors for the whole year. This year.  3 million and counting!
In the afternoon we climbed up a hill to the Perlan Glacier and Ice Cave Museum. The "Pearl" . What a gorgeous place, where we were treated to a fabulous lunch and enjoyed a 360 degree view of the city. After lunch we donned warm ice jackets and entered the artificial ice caves, and listened to a young guide explain the ins and outs of glaciers and ice caves in Iceland. It was great fun, but since we had already seen the real deal.....it seemed a little artificial to us, but still worth seeing if one could not venture to the real glacier area. There was quite a big educational area about climate change, and after our "tour".  We were given a disc to write our impressions and share with the world!  
A wonderful "private tour" day with a fun lady who we felt was already a friend. We ended up at a Viking restaurant quite near our hotel and had a viking feast dinner with cod and wine and desert.