So... here is part 1 of iceland!! instead of blogging day-by-day guess an overall one would be a whole lot better! Iceland was really icy to say the least! aaaand there's a lot of waterfalls, glaciers and lava fields. Or at least frozen lava fields. There isnt much shopping to do, the city areas tend to be pretty quiet i feel and they're really energy saving? in fact usually its just fields and mountains of snow and ice all the way! i think we spent most of the time of the trip on the bus driving from a place to another. Nevertheless, the waterfalls were really beautiful and shocking at the same time! there sure is an abundance of snow there! Iceland is also called the land of fire and ice as it is filled with ice (duh) and volcanoes too! I remember theres this place in some documentary that talked about the place where lava meets ice, where you have molten lava plunging into the icy waters...it could be iceland i guess! one thing's for sure is that there is a diving spot where you can dive between two tectonic plates? YES iceland is the place! we saw the spot, but didnt dive!

The tour package was a really relaxing one with zero activities i believe? So our tour group had mainly older people.... i really thought it would be a good opprotunity to make friend with fellow teens, like what i did in my trip to Finland but nope!! it was pretty much just brother and I. The other two girls from another family were my age> but they were just too quiet and reserved >.< nevertheless, it was still a fun trip though!! as mentioned in previous post, i travelled with Dynasty travels and it was a slacking sort of itinerary, they dont pack it all up like chan brothers. Personally, i prefer to travel on a slackish holiday instead of one filled with deadlines and all. personal preference! ironically, dynasty travel packages are also on the high side; should have seen the hole in mum's wallet when she came out of the travel agency man!

#funfact101: i only took 2000 photos or so for this trip...


So first look at iceland!! wow and i remember when i was young, that greenland has lots of ice and iceland has lots of greens hmmm..... even the airport is filled with snow :D but less than finland i must say..



First look at the airport~ everythign is pretty simple i would say, no fancy decorations or whatsoever.


aaaand.... this is iceland's airport!? you can see little bits of snow around me, but actually theres a TON of snow at where i am actually looking at! :P the temperature was about -5 to -15 degrees so it aint too bad..?

Although snow here seems to be...taking up quite a big portion. here is a shot in the bus when we were on the roads, at a junction, this woman stopped and bruhed the snow off her windscreen before continuing with the drive which i found pretty cool huh! at this point in time, i was still pretty much in a daze. It's like in my mind, i am going "okay this is iceland, i am in iceland. what am i doing here? i dont know. oh right family trip" Somehow i just felt so tired and lost! although i definitely did have ample rest beforehand! i just kinda wasn't "prepared" for this trip while i was slacking my holidays away.



After a crazy long drive, we finally reached out hotel!! i think it was a 4 hour drive or something like that...i only remember dozing off later in the bus while the tour leader was telling us about iceland! like the statistics for population, etc etc. felt like i was in a lecture for sure!


see? its so nice that you have others looking at the ceiling too okay! what i like is that with the ceiling overhead, it feels pretty much like as though it was a few buildings joined together by this glass roof/contraption which makes it really cool!! i absolutely love this kind of architecture, and doing so really makes the place feel a whole lot more spacious!


Dinners at iceland are really REALLY good. i was shocked by just how soft the meat is! and for the record, the food here really tastes VERY different back home. like even though they serve salmon, it's taste varies slightly from that in singapore. You dont get chicken meat here either, instead you have turkey. pork here is like WOAH HEAVEN. you have huge huge chunks of pork to eat and mind you, they're tender! usually in singapore, you always end up getting really small chunks or slices of pork that is overcooked-hard. here, its really tender and you can really dig in because its literally a fist-size amount of pork at once (sometimes)! best part? its a buffet MUAHAHAH erm then again, this is hotel restaurant food so obviously it tends to be much better than the usual food you will get from the streets eh?


I shall leave you with some pictures of the food that we had for lots of days!








You can imagine how fat bro and i have become especially when this is a buffet!! so we usually go for like 3 rounds of food :P which was so yummy!! erm took really little potatoes, just spammed the meat like nobody's business. Especially when its the first time you have a buffet for a long while, wohoo!

This is our first try at northern lights, although it failed really badly! like we couldnt even see a thing...we had 2 hours on this boat, an hour was spent waiting for it, so bro and i split the remaining hour to take stupid photos and play cards at the bottom!



Well if you've seen the video of my trip, you would have seen our stupid poses and all for the northern lights! well here's where it started i guess xD always anyhow posing around, doing stupid things, but that's what makes the trip more fun! Hidden inside bro's jacket, is a bottle of jaegermeister heh heh heh :P



There are seats inside for us to sit around and chill, i guess that's all you can do here when there's really nothing in the skies! neither can you see any whales in the sea now...so we just pretty much slacked off into the night!



This night i remember was particularly drowsy, we stayed out until it was like 12am? before reaching back into the hotel and resting up. It was supposed to be the longest night for the trip! but it was pretty alright, afterall, i spent the time chatting with the other tour group people, getting to know them better too :) it still feels kinda mmmmm half half at this point in time as we didnt get to see the northern lights, and so far, we have yet to see any daylight for iceland! There's only a good 4 hours of daylight a day during winter in iceland though! :) once it's past 2.20pm, the sky is usually like our evening skies ar 7pm i would say. yknow what? i'll just do a day by day post...it kinda makes more sense -.- that way i can go more in depth! i'll prolly do 2 days at once at times i guess!