Lake Mývatn by jeep

A sightseeing tour was scheduled for Sunday, but our guide was sick, so a local resident took us around instead. He told us a huge amount about the town, its history and its stories - he clearly loved the place.



Lake Mývatn sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, so a lot of the features were volcanic or geothermic. He pointed out local birds, opened up the tourist info store for us, called a resident to open the craft store and took us around to the sights around the lake:

we quickly explored a specially planted park Geiteyjarströnd (see above left), walked around the 'dark city' of Dimmuborgir, covered our shoes in plastic bags (see right) and stomped through the mud at Námafjall (see above right), peered into natural bathing holes and ended up, of course, at the Nature Baths again.