DAY 5, the last one!

On our last day in Iceland we went to the Blue Lagoon, and we drove into the heart of a power plant.

In order to see the other part of the spectrum of bathing possibilities we’ve went to the well known SPA and HEALTH bath BLUE LAGOON. We wanted to see the commercialized version of our hot river.
But before the relaxing part, we drove along the coastline and had a closer look to Kefflaviks suburban areas (in fact untill now it’s just a zic-zag road in the middle nowere between the sea and the Highway, but you can imaging the developpment in Icelands urban planning), we visited a small harbour town witch was quite sleepy (with a creepy old ship in ist harbour), and we’ver been in a rather fishy smelling powerplant.
One of the best things in Iceland is: no one cares what you’re doing.
We were on top of the highest building in Iceland wich is still under construction and no one asked us anything! Or we drove into that powerplant with our car, no fences were in sight! It was incredible and frighting to feel the earth below us quacking! Again the powerplant wasn’t a part of the landscape it was mor like a parasite.

When we finally arrived at the BLUE LAGOON, we were shocked, the architecture was quite good, but it was really disgusting to see that huge amount of people in there and the commercialised environment. Nevertheless after a short discussion about our impressions of the whole BLUE LAGOON athmosphere, we decided to go inside. (weh ad to pay 50 CHF!!!!!).
The bathing experience was as supposed very niche, the white, milky water nourished our skin, the „free“ face maskes almost burned our skin and the sauna was full of swissmens (and women),.A necative point ist hat ste sandy ground of the basin is full of hair8!), witch was disgusting!
It was ok, but nothing in comparison to our hot river form the day before. What is interesting about the BLUE LAGOON ist hat this is one of a very few places where the mineralrich water is analised and cultivated for the sake fo human health.

The water fort he blue lagoon comes from a nearby powerplant, and it is waste water. We think it is a very interesting way to use the water who’s otherwise only used to gererate electricity or heat. This is a very sustainable project and maybe a rolemodel for other companies to make use of their wastewater (if it’s not too dirty). Ist also a model wich shows us that we should use ressources more than once even if they are abundant and renewable.

After getting back to our hotel, in order to prepare ourselfes for dinner and nightlife, we went to an indish restaurant. The food was delicious and the waitress spoke a language we are’t able to understand in the first moment: swiss-german. After dinner we enjoyed Reykjaviks well known nightlife at ist fullest!