Boiled alive

Our next step in the Icelandic adventure took us to the Blue Lagoon, a huge complex where one can swim in very hot water coming directly from the Earth. The water is supposed to have healing properties (despite its colour, not transparent I would say), but all I can say is that it smells disgusting, since it contains significant amounts of sulphures. One can also apply a gel by silicium over its body, but it is not very advisable to do so, because, after five minutes, it dries up and it is hard then to remove it from the face, especially from the eyes.
By the way, do not try to find me in this picture, I am not there, believe me.

When entering the dressing room, one can read a lot of signs highlighting those parts in our bodies which we should wash carefully (yeah, including the ones all of you have in your heads). Afterwards, one leaves the building and it is outside, with a temperature of around 15º C, what makes that one runs into the water after 15 seconds. The water is very, very hot (around 35º C) but one feels amazingly comfortable there, once the initial feeling of being boiled alive proves to be false. We stayed more than three hours and, consequently, our skin got burned...

Again, as the previous day, we had lunch at 6 in the evening, out of Blue Lagoon. We decided then to look for the place where the European and the American tectonic plates meet, since it seemed to be quite an interesting place. In our search, we arrived by mistake to the most famous lighthouse in Iceland (see above). The place were very nice, with nice views of a small island and we could even spot the volcano we had visited on our first day in Iceland (more than 200 kilometres away from us).The tectonic plates themselves were so disappointing that I am not going to spend many words with them. I will just say that they are not worth the visit, despite their geologal importance.

That day we slept in a hostel close to the aiport because one of us was leaving the next day very early in the morning, what implied that we had to wake up at 4am. Yeah, I agree, I also think it is an stupid hour to be awake but...