Day 5 - Glacier Duck Boat Tour and the East Fjords

We woke up and ate breakfast at hotel around 7:30. Weave some sandwiches again to eat for lunch. When we finished we got back on ring road again and headed toward Jökulsárlón, which is a glacial lagoon, to do a duck-boat tour. We got there around 10 and the next available tour wasn't until 11 so we walked to the nearby beach to check it out. The beach had black sand like the others but it also had chunks of ice that had washed up on shore from the glacier.

These mini icebergs were clod but fun to climb! We headed back after a half hour or so to catch our duck-boat tour of the lagoon. 

Our duck-boat

The tour was pretty cool, the lagoon was really large and had lots of huge icebergs! It flowed out to the sea which is why a lot of ice ended up on the shore. 

One interesting fact about the lagoon is the filmed parts of James Bond Die Another Day, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty here. After the tour we got back on the road. We stopped at a small town called Hofn on the coast to eat our lunch. We had a long drive ahead of us (over 3hours) so the plan was to stop at a few of the town on the way. The whole drive was along the coast through the east fjords. The views on the drive were absolutely spectacular. We stopped at a town called Djúpivogur to go to the bathroom and have a snack and beer. The place we are was called langabud museum cafe, it was really good. On our way out we drive by some famous statues of eggs called Eggin i Gledivi, they were pretty weird in all honesty. 

After our pit stop we continued driving on ring road heading toward our guest house which was near the town of Egilsstaðir. 

We ended up driving a little past our guesthouse to a town called Seyðisfjörður they actually filmed the scene in Walter Mitty where Ben Stiller longboards down a mountainous road. The drive the the city was awesome, I can't describe how cool the view was. Once in the town we ate at a restaurant called El Gorillo, I had the pork ribs which were delicious! I think it was by far the best place we've eaten so far and for a reasonable price!

Finally after dinner we made our way back to the guest house which is a secluded little house in the middle of this of this mountain, this landscape is insanely gorgeous! Tomorrow we make our way to a town called Akureyri.