Magic of frozen Gullfoss. Golden circle in wintertime :)

© triskel   Gullfoss waterfall in wintertime

© triskel     Icelandic Beer Festival at KEX hostel

On the first weekend of March I went for another one day trip not that far from Reykjavik. As Iga and Ola were visiting Iceland for one week I invited them to join me and my friends, two Polish guys from Lowersilesia region that now live in Iceland, at our Golden Circle tour.













I was recovering after sudden attack of stomach flue virus that made me suffer a lot for almost two past days so I was a little bit dizzy and didn't want to go hiking on that day. Funny enough that after drinking festival beer called 'Jesús' I felt so sick that I had to call the word 'jesús' many times last night.. I barely survived the night.. We had 3 days of Beer Festival to celebrate 25 anniversary of prohibition's end. On March 1st it is celebrated here Icelandic Beer Day. And that's interesting story because 'on March 1st 1989, the 74 year old spell of prohibition was lifted off Iceland' and this is a great reason to try some of the delicious local beers. So I tried this new one..

© triskel    Red aurora borealis at Thingvellir National Park seen on 27th Feb 2014

It was on Friday night, just one day after spectacular red aurora borealis, as I heard from my friends, it was the biggest and the greatest aurora in last two years. After finishing Fat Thursday meeting at Polish Embassy we decided to go aurora hunting as the forecast was showing incredibly big magnetic storm and even the sky was so blue, huge ribbon became visible on the sky. I let know Iga and Ola who just arrived to Iceland, and after watching green ribbon above the KEX hostel we went in two cars to Thingvellir National Park. Aurora was so huge and immense, like wings of falling angel, was dancing on many sides, intensively red and green. And the red colour is not that much common so we were incredibly thrilled and happy! Standing on the wooden ramp at Thingvellir we were surrounded only by nature and immense stars, even a big one was falling down and it look like a huge torch!
One of my colleagues helped me to set up my camera, so the photo that I place here is only in half mine. He set higher ISO so the colours are more intensive. Just have a look!

© triskel    Thingvellavatn lake at Thingvellir National Park

And coming back to our Sunday trip (it was exactly 2nd of March) we started our trip from Thingvellir rifts to show the girls this beautiful place during the day. Here you see Thingvellavatn lake, huge and awesome. It was quite windy but we were so lucky with the light. We had a walk around the place and took some nice photos. 

© triskel  Thingvellir rifts

 

Then we continued to Geysir area and mighty Gullfoss, the Golden Waterfall.
It was such a wonderful sunny day! My pictures tell you more then my words, just follow the photography to have more insight :) We came back from that trip at night. I was so enthusiastic about Gullfoss and its beautiful frozen cascades! Enjoy it :)))))

© triskel    Strokkur Geyser eruption at Geysir area

© triskel   Old Geysir

© triskel    Gullfoss at wintertime

© triskel   Gullfoss  at wintertime