This is becoming a popular meme destination for us Americans since it's technically the closets flight to Europe for us. Been thinking about it too. What do you do there other than sit in the hot spring?
Reykjavík runs out of sights after a half day which leaves you with the nightlife or hiring a car and looking at natural stuff. With a few days to play with you could explore the south coast which is where most of the Google image search pictures come from. Myvatn area up top is nice as well. If you like driving you can circumnavigate the island on Route 1.
Blue Lagoon is very well known and a huge tourist trap. Spend 5% as much going to any municipal pool; they’ll have a hot tub and Icelanders to talk to.
Its also worthwhile prefacing the ring road with the awfully fricking slow speed limits.
The whole island is capped at 55kph in the fastest sections.
You might think there is nobody around for kilometers, and you could be right, but we set our cruise control to 55kph as advised and it was amazed the amount of times a lone police car would pull over the big Land Rover Discovery full of Americans speeding ahead of us.
Trying to get into Þingvellir Natoinal Park whilst stuck at 50kph was excruciating. But the speeding fines are not worth it
>The whole island is capped at 55kph in the fastest sections.
90 m8
The open road is mostly 90 km/h. I can't think of a road that is signed at 55 km/h.
They’ve changed the definition of route 1 so the eastern bit no longer involves gravel roads and a merciless series of steep switchbacks up a hill pass. I prefer taking the 939/95 rather than hugging the coast for that section although it is bumpy
Its also worthwhile prefacing the ring road with the awfully fricking slow speed limits.
The whole island is capped at 55kph in the fastest sections.
You might think there is nobody around for kilometers, and you could be right, but we set our cruise control to 55kph as advised and it was amazed the amount of times a lone police car would pull over the big Land Rover Discovery full of Americans speeding ahead of us.
Trying to get into Þingvellir Natoinal Park whilst stuck at 50kph was excruciating. But the speeding fines are not worth it
90km/h
You can do faster in quiet rural stretches. My one time ever I got pulled over for speeding was in Iceland. I played dumb and said I thought the limit was 120 like on the continent. Cop clearly couldn’t be bothered with the paperwork to issue a fine with my funny foreign licence so I got away with a telling off
https://i.imgur.com/fKgvFdq.jpg
I was thinking of going to Iceland when I run out of money to walk out into the wilderness and die and so hopefully no one ever finds my remains
Iceland is patrolled by hikers and sheepherders. To successfully do this you’ll need to get into the central highland plateau and just walk into oblivion. Even then it’s criss crossed by 4x4 tracks and they’ll send out search parties when they realise you’re missing. Hard way to go anon. You’re better off getting a job flipping burgers in any globohomosexual place
Do the usual touristy shit first. Get it out of the way
Fly Over Iceland (basically Soarin if youve ever been to Disney)
Whale Museum
Go on a Whale Watching Tour
Visit the Hallgrimskirkja Church and go up to the bell tower for the views
Visit the Perlan Science and Culture Museum
Get Ice Cream in any of the ice cream stores
Get the hot dogs
If you want to a Spa, my suggestion would be do the Sky Lagoon over the Blue Lagoon. Blue Lagoon is a tourist trap, although its a nice stop on the way from the airport. Sky Lagoon is a more premium experience. Just watch out for the Penis Police in the changing rooms. They love calling out shrewd Americans who refuse to go naked in the showers. They will watch you scrub your dick to make sure its clean
Go to Le Kock for the Poor Mans breakfast. Pretty good pastry, drink and snack for a not a lot of money.
Einar Jónsson Museum, it's right next Hallgrímskirkja. If you don't want to go inside, still go into the attached sculpture park, it's free and well worth it.
The national gallery The permanent installation has a lot of nice landscape paintings, a good look at Iceland in the 19th/early 20th century.
Go on a Golden Circle tour if you don't have a car.
If you do have a car, drive the golden circle and expand from there. I recommend stopping in Selfoss, where there are replications of old lost buildings in a new urbanist style down town area.
Years ago I did a golden circle tour in a day, got a nice mix of nature, geysers, rivers, waterfalls, landscape. It's tourist shit but would recommend if you haven't seen much of iceland before.
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If you're autistic and unable to socialize, no.
If you're somewhat normal, yes.
Don't (you) everyone.
https://i.imgur.com/fKgvFdq.jpg
I was thinking of going to Iceland when I run out of money to walk out into the wilderness and die and so hopefully no one ever finds my remains
Sounds like an awful way to go, even doing something menial like giving English lessons online is enough to make a good living in an inexpensive country.
Two things to note:
1. Iceland has a rather limited gene pool compared to other countries, so local Icelanders have accidentally dated/fricked their own biological relatives.
They don't have to be as careful about that with foreigners. When most other girls are interested in a foreigner, they think "he's cute" or "he's sexy," but these girls think "he's not my cousin."
2. Unrelated to the previous point, but if you're actually interested in dating, it's normal in Icelandic culture to frick on the first date. They're more likely to frick first, before ever considering themselves boyfriend & girlfriend. You might've interpreted this component of their culture as an "easy lay." Supposedly this is to measure their chemistry/sexual compatibility. If she doesn't deem you compatible, you'll have gotten one frick out of her, but you'll probably have to move on.
Anons who have been, will Reykjavík suck if I don't drive?
no, but your bound to the city and tourist destinations served by tour companies. The bus is good enough, just prepare for the moronic payment system before you arrive
98%. They had English broadcast TV before Icelandic thanks to the US military station. The other 2% are a bunch of elderly farmers, literal morons and some immigrants. Any Icelander a tourist is likely to meet will be able to talk passable English and often better than you.
For baby’s first iceland trip you’ll be fine as Reykjavík is small and walking is the best way to soak up the vibe. If you want to see the nature you have to accept whatever your bus tour options are. Anything else is essentially inaccessible without a car. Roads outside of route 1 and urban areas can be in terrible condition.
Damn I need that kind of money wtf
Does the strip club still exist on the main street? Don't go there - they are scammers / will rip you off.
Definitely check out the church, it's nice in and out.
Get the hotdog. You'll know exactly which one if you google the city name and hotdog. It's just that good.
Fish and chips. Cod is godly tasty there.
how good could it be?
This is becoming a popular meme destination for us Americans since it's technically the closets flight to Europe for us. Been thinking about it too. What do you do there other than sit in the hot spring?
Look at active volcanoes and glaciers I guess.
Reykjavík runs out of sights after a half day which leaves you with the nightlife or hiring a car and looking at natural stuff. With a few days to play with you could explore the south coast which is where most of the Google image search pictures come from. Myvatn area up top is nice as well. If you like driving you can circumnavigate the island on Route 1.
Blue Lagoon is very well known and a huge tourist trap. Spend 5% as much going to any municipal pool; they’ll have a hot tub and Icelanders to talk to.
The ring road is one of the best road trips in the world. I don't respect anyone who's been to Iceland and hasn't driven it.
Its also worthwhile prefacing the ring road with the awfully fricking slow speed limits.
The whole island is capped at 55kph in the fastest sections.
You might think there is nobody around for kilometers, and you could be right, but we set our cruise control to 55kph as advised and it was amazed the amount of times a lone police car would pull over the big Land Rover Discovery full of Americans speeding ahead of us.
Trying to get into Þingvellir Natoinal Park whilst stuck at 50kph was excruciating. But the speeding fines are not worth it
>The whole island is capped at 55kph in the fastest sections.
90 m8
The open road is mostly 90 km/h. I can't think of a road that is signed at 55 km/h.
They’ve changed the definition of route 1 so the eastern bit no longer involves gravel roads and a merciless series of steep switchbacks up a hill pass. I prefer taking the 939/95 rather than hugging the coast for that section although it is bumpy
90km/h
You can do faster in quiet rural stretches. My one time ever I got pulled over for speeding was in Iceland. I played dumb and said I thought the limit was 120 like on the continent. Cop clearly couldn’t be bothered with the paperwork to issue a fine with my funny foreign licence so I got away with a telling off
Iceland is patrolled by hikers and sheepherders. To successfully do this you’ll need to get into the central highland plateau and just walk into oblivion. Even then it’s criss crossed by 4x4 tracks and they’ll send out search parties when they realise you’re missing. Hard way to go anon. You’re better off getting a job flipping burgers in any globohomosexual place
Do the usual touristy shit first. Get it out of the way
Fly Over Iceland (basically Soarin if youve ever been to Disney)
Whale Museum
Go on a Whale Watching Tour
Visit the Hallgrimskirkja Church and go up to the bell tower for the views
Visit the Perlan Science and Culture Museum
Get Ice Cream in any of the ice cream stores
Get the hot dogs
If you want to a Spa, my suggestion would be do the Sky Lagoon over the Blue Lagoon. Blue Lagoon is a tourist trap, although its a nice stop on the way from the airport. Sky Lagoon is a more premium experience. Just watch out for the Penis Police in the changing rooms. They love calling out shrewd Americans who refuse to go naked in the showers. They will watch you scrub your dick to make sure its clean
Go to Le Kock for the Poor Mans breakfast. Pretty good pastry, drink and snack for a not a lot of money.
Einar Jónsson Museum, it's right next Hallgrímskirkja. If you don't want to go inside, still go into the attached sculpture park, it's free and well worth it.
The national gallery The permanent installation has a lot of nice landscape paintings, a good look at Iceland in the 19th/early 20th century.
Go on a Golden Circle tour if you don't have a car.
If you do have a car, drive the golden circle and expand from there. I recommend stopping in Selfoss, where there are replications of old lost buildings in a new urbanist style down town area.
I was thinking of going to Iceland when I run out of money to walk out into the wilderness and die and so hopefully no one ever finds my remains
Years ago I did a golden circle tour in a day, got a nice mix of nature, geysers, rivers, waterfalls, landscape. It's tourist shit but would recommend if you haven't seen much of iceland before.
If you're autistic and unable to socialize, no.
If you're somewhat normal, yes.
Don't (you) everyone.
Sounds like an awful way to go, even doing something menial like giving English lessons online is enough to make a good living in an inexpensive country.
Two things to note:
1. Iceland has a rather limited gene pool compared to other countries, so local Icelanders have accidentally dated/fricked their own biological relatives.
They don't have to be as careful about that with foreigners. When most other girls are interested in a foreigner, they think "he's cute" or "he's sexy," but these girls think "he's not my cousin."
2. Unrelated to the previous point, but if you're actually interested in dating, it's normal in Icelandic culture to frick on the first date. They're more likely to frick first, before ever considering themselves boyfriend & girlfriend. You might've interpreted this component of their culture as an "easy lay." Supposedly this is to measure their chemistry/sexual compatibility. If she doesn't deem you compatible, you'll have gotten one frick out of her, but you'll probably have to move on.
Good place to go to meet girls?
Don't bother. Iceland wants to improve the gene pool and your IQ is obviously below 100.
Just go to any bar or club and try to look as non-Icelandic as possible.
Approximately what percentage of Icelanders speak English?
all of them
no, but your bound to the city and tourist destinations served by tour companies. The bus is good enough, just prepare for the moronic payment system before you arrive
98%. They had English broadcast TV before Icelandic thanks to the US military station. The other 2% are a bunch of elderly farmers, literal morons and some immigrants. Any Icelander a tourist is likely to meet will be able to talk passable English and often better than you.
For baby’s first iceland trip you’ll be fine as Reykjavík is small and walking is the best way to soak up the vibe. If you want to see the nature you have to accept whatever your bus tour options are. Anything else is essentially inaccessible without a car. Roads outside of route 1 and urban areas can be in terrible condition.
Anons who have been, will Reykjavík suck if I don't drive?