Iceland-4 New adventure

After yesterday's excitement and tiredness,we decided to do more relax things today. One other reason that we were so tired is that we did some hiking up on the moutain yesterday also. Forgot to tell in yesterday's blog.So today I will tell a little bit about it,because it was my first time on such high moutains hiking. Weather was not good,raining and the sky was grey all the time. We climbed up one moutain which near the skogafoss waterfall, then from there we started the real hiking. Up on the moutain with only sheep,grass and mud everywhere,the right side of us are moutains and moutains,but the left is so deep could not really see where was the end. Well, I was a little afraid of the height since I was not so used to it. We climbed up and down moutains,saw lots of inside moutain waterfalls which normally can not be seen. Rain getting to be very hard,we did not have very good hiking clothes,with the wet clothes and wet muddy shoes,after two hours we were going back.
I have to say yesterday was the most exciting day in all the trip.Today we planed to do more relax things. So in the morning,we booked a two hours Icelandic hourse riding tour. Riding hourse by myself also the first time for me.I had a white female horse and they called her princess. She was beautiful and gentle,we became friends very soon.This kinda horses are not big and only exist in Iceland,they are one of the nature forces of Iceland.(In Iceland there are not much animals and plants due to the coldness) The tour mainly in some lava fields and horses are really relaxed walking and sometimes little bit hop hop...Fun! After that each of us even got a certificate about riding horses! ( Well not professional yet)
Yuan and horses
In the afternoon, we drove to one of the national park-Thingvellir. It was huge and beautiful, just one thing lack- no trees. Only bushes and grass on the moutains,but still make them looks green and full of lives! Through the moutains we reached to the big geyser area, there is one geyser can spit out the hot spring about 20 meters high, but that one is not very active. We saw some smaller ones,every ten minutes it spit out the spring about 5 or 6 meters high.Everyone around it cheered and got very excited by it!
Geyser
Further on there is the most beautiful waterfall I have ever seen-Gullfoss waterfall. Big and broad waterfall between moutains,big sounds of the falling water you could hear from very far. Ha! rainbow! a colorful bridge on the waterfall. We walked very closed to the waterfall to feel its power and strength! Well of course we got very wet again!
Gullfoss waterfall
Ok,this was the last night we were in Iceland,we planed to experience some place that little bit far from the city(the main tourists place). So we drove to the town Akranes, which has 5793 people.It is not a small town in Iceland but for me it is rather small and quiet. Found a restaurant but they did not have English menu, so the waitress tried to translated everything for us. I tried the Icelandic horse meat,but after I ate I regreted.They are so gentle and beautiful and what I just did to them?
It was getting late,so we quickly finished and heading back. To our surprise, from there back to Reykjavik we have to go through a 5,57km undersea tunnel,and it is one of the world's longest underwater road tunnel. Ok, we became fish once in the car! Let's go through the sea!
Good adventures today! It gave our Iceland trip a very good end! [to be continued]