When arriving in Skaftafell, Bus 112 to Reykjavik was already waiting and was rather full. We couldn't even find seats to sit together. Anyway, I considered that we were lucky to get places on the bus... The bus fare was 6100 ISK, even cheaper than the Net Bus... However, the bus was actually a tourist bus, because it would stop very often in different places, so that it would take the whole day to get to Reykjavik, instead of 5 hours...
The first stop was 30 minutes in Kirkjubaejarklaustur. It was actually for transferring passengers and stuffs to another bus which was going to Laki.
The following stop was in Vik for one and a half hour. The weather wasn't superb but somehow fit the black sandy beach of Vik very well.
The below photo shows the traditional church viewed from distance...
There was a river running parallel to the seashore...
A sculpture by the sea as a memorial of someone (I don't remember who he was)...
The waves were dramatically strong... They made the black sand beach became even more dramatic...
The bird cliffs at the eastend of the beach. The sea had eroded the cliffs into wonderful shaps. Rocks or small islets in the picture below were also formed by wave erosion...
We left Vik at 12.30 p.m. and continued to Skogar where we stopped for one hour 15 minutes. Skogarfoss waterfall was was an idyllic straight waterfall, dropping 60 meters over the green cliff after trumbling all the way down from the glacier above.
It was so wet that I didn't want to go so close to the waterfall...
We then walked along the stairs up to the base of the waterfall... The wet weather during the past days made the green fields and hills even greener. Viewing from the height, I saw nice farmland with a river cutting through as well as a flock of marching cows...
The photograpghs of the waterfall taken from different views....
Sheep are everywhere even on a steep mountain. I wondered how they could balance themselves and simultaneously eat grass on the steep mountains.
We were a little tired of tourist attractions after Skogar. However, the tourist bus still continued... The next stop was at Seljalandsfoss for half an hour. TT didn't even want to leave the bus. I went down briefly just to take a few photographs. After seeing several more beautiful waterfalls, this waterfall didn't attract me so much, unfortunately.
There were many other tiny waterfalls in the same area...
The bus stopped for another half an hour in Hvolsvöllur. It was already 3.30 p.m. As I haven't had any lunch, I went to the shop at the gas station where the bus made its stop to grab a hotdog... TT later joined and grabbed one as well.
After this stop, the bus just stopped only for picking and dropping passengers at a few different locations. We finally arrived at Reykjavik at 5,15 p.m.
On the way to the residence, we thought that we could dropped by at the Tourist Information Center to check the weather forecast for tommorrow. If the weather was nice, I would rent a car and go to the interior of the country. As TT had checked the tariff for a four-wheel from Avis and found that it was double price compared to the smallest car, we decided to take only a small car (together with the risk, of course) in order to save money.
At the Tourist Info, we could not only check the weather, but also book a car. We didn't know that the Tourist Information would have this service. The girl at the counter showed us a folder where we could look for car rental companies in Reykjavik and their price lists. Then, she helped us checking availability by calling different companies. Avis and Budget had no cheapest car available for tomorrow. However, Hertz had a small car (Toyota Yaris) and the price was 11600 ISK per day. When the girl at the Tourist Info was writing a voucher for us, I saw on the last page of the folder an offer from the 4th floor hotel for renting a Toyota Yaris at 9900 ISK. So, we asked her to check if there would be any car available. Luckily, there was still a car for tomorrow. Then, she did the booking for us and we paid for the rent.
Then, I went food-shopping at Bonus and returned to the residence to prepare fried salmon and zucchini for dinner... The weather in Reykjavik seemed nicer than in the the south where we just came from...
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