Day 4 - Thingvellir and Reykjavik at Night

We had a later start this morning because we weren't going too far so here's a photo from the balcony of the apartment looking over the lake.

Thingvellir is where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are drifting apart creating a rift valley in lava rocks.  Several small canyons have formed and this is the view down one which has a crazy paving path.

At the end of the canyon we climbed unto the top of the rocks where there is this pile of rocks and a grand view to the mountains in the distance.

From the top of the canyon we could look back towards the Oxarfoss waterfall and the black ash path that we had walked on earlier.

Here's the Oxarfoss waterfall from a bit closer.  The rocks were very black  and the water had a tinge of green but looked very clear.

Here the water from the falls is flowing away to the second set of falls further down the valley.

Next to the falls was a large expanse of decking which included this small rock poking up through the carefully cut hole in the boards.  Quite a lot of the paths and viewing platforms around the site were timbered in a similar way with cutouts for the rocks at the edges.

Quite disappointingly the second big falls on the site had a big ugly concrete bridge over the top of it which didn't make it a decent photo opportunity.  However looking back up the river was a pretty set of small falls with the mountains in the background.

Nearby was this strange looking rock formation.

In the valley bottom is the famous church and houses so I took this long shot showing the mountains in the distance.

We walked down to the church and here is Ginny looking towards the mountains, just taking in the view.

Here's a closer view of the church, it's very pretty and had probably being photographed millions of times.

After looking at the church we headed across the bridges back towards the canyons area.  Just one last shot of the church with a nice patch of water in the foreground.

We made our way back to Reykjavik where we looked around the Art Gallery and then walked through some of the shopping streets with all their Christmas decorations.  Then back to the church which was nicely lit up in the dusky evening.

We decided to go to the Pearl for a meal but it was fully booked for a function, so after having a coffee in the viewing area in the dome we got a taxi back to the car and headed back to the apartment for a meal there.