viking Museum - Sarada's travelogue
Tuesday the 12th March - we were supposed to visit the Seljalandsfoss - rated as the First Most beautiful waterfalls in the World - But nature had its own plans for us.
When we came down to have our breakfast and then get on to the bus for the road trip to the falls and Vik - the black sand beach - we were so thrilled to see snow fall. Few of us got outside to take photos of the falling snow not realizing that this is going to change our plans.
Our guide came in and said there is a storm advisory and the road which leads to the waterfalls will be closed by 1200 noon and so she said we cant undertake that journey but said we can go the southern way to see few things.
So we went sight seeing in the southern direction passing through the keflavik airport. What a day it was snowy, windy and very very cold.
When we came down to have our breakfast and then get on to the bus for the road trip to the falls and Vik - the black sand beach - we were so thrilled to see snow fall. Few of us got outside to take photos of the falling snow not realizing that this is going to change our plans.
Our guide came in and said there is a storm advisory and the road which leads to the waterfalls will be closed by 1200 noon and so she said we cant undertake that journey but said we can go the southern way to see few things.
So we went sight seeing in the southern direction passing through the keflavik airport. What a day it was snowy, windy and very very cold.
Our first stop was a near a small building which houses the replica of the Viking boat which was used to cross the Atlantic ocean to reach United States much before Columbus discovered America. it was supposed to be a pit shop for a bio break and a coffee break - but it became a souvenir purchase moment. The 2 staff manning the counter though much harassed by 32 tourist trying to bill this and that, should have been a very happy lot with the kind of sales that happened within a tiny window of half an hour.
Viking World is a museum in Njarðvík, Reykjanesbær, Iceland has on permanent display the Íslendingur, the replica of the Gokstad Viking ship which in 2000 was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, for the celebrations of the millennium of leif ericsson's voyage and then to New York. The ship was returned to Iceland and placed on exhibit in the open air until being transferred to the new museum in autumn 2008. It is suspended one and a half metres in the air so that visitors can walk underneath her hull and see the workmanship.. the museum also houses the exhibition Vikings — The North Atlantic Saga.
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