On the fourth day of our trip to Iceland, we went on a tour with Reykjavik Sightseeing (a fantastic company who are definitely worth booking with - the guides are very friendly and informative, and for photographers and Instagrammers there's fantastic internet on board the coach with free photography services such as tripods for the Northern Lights tour) to Pingvellier National Park just outside the city. We arrived just as the sun was rising at about 11:30am (the sun rises very late and sets just a few hours after it has risen. Pingvellier was the site of the first Icelandic Parliament (the name Pingvellier literally means "Assembly Plains"), the Alping, which was founded in 930 and continued to meet at Pingvellier until 1798.
This is a photo of the "Drowning Pool" at the national park, which was used as a form of punishment by the Vikings and afterwards.
We then visited the Geysir in the southwest of the country, which we saw erupt 7 times in total for the 30 minutes that we were watching it. The Geysir has been active for almost 10,000 years and was first reported in 1294 as there were earthquakes in the local area.
We then visited Gullfoss, a waterfall also in the southwest of Iceland. Afterwards we saw the snow ponies in nearby Blaskobyggd.
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