sights uncovered
Travel with Tessa
ICELAND
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A glass of wine and a gourmet meal at The Lava restaurant of the Blue Lagoon.
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The most relaxing way to unwind and begin our trip. A half-day in the silky, steaming, therapeutic ice-blue waters of the Blue Lagoon.
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I’ve never tasted pastries and bread like those here in Iceland. I watched mesmerized as these two master bakers worked in harmony.
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Sinfully delicious pastries. They are utterly addictive.
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Thundering, majestic, Seljalandsfoss waterfall.
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Black sand beach and unique black basalt cave, which looks as though it was sculpted by a professional artist.
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The bucolic, peaceful Icelandic landscape: Blue skies, Glaciers, green velvet grass, and red-roofed farmhouses and barns.
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Jokularson Glacial Lagoon where icebergs float on the lagoon beneath the retreating glacier and blocks of ice float out to sea.
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Fjadrargljfur Canyon, where waterfalls tumble and ice blue water swirls below towering pillars of rock.
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This Geyser shoots skywards with a whoosh every eight minutes.
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In the geothermal pools, the water bubbles and boils and steams.
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Inside an Ice Cave below the surface of a glacier.