The tours

 Booking the flights and the tickets was only the first step. The challenge of what to do there once we have landed and parked our belongings was the bigger question. 

K had the blue lagoon in his bucket list as a must visit place. So before we got anything sorted we booked the blue lagoon. We were very excited that we had one definite thing pencilled in. As the days got closer our research intensified. There were a bunch of stuff we needed to do which are kind of the must-be-dones for visitors. If one wanted one could go with a quick tour of the capital city and the geothermal lagoon, but then to have a look at all the wonders, there was much more to be done. We had to book tours since we werent game on driving through a new country. The tours were quite long, approximating around 10-14 hours. We had to be mindful that the kids would be quite restless on the long journeys. It was quite tricky balancing the duration of tours with the things we wanted to see. It was a lottttt of Googling. 

Once we had zeroed in on the stuff we wanted to do, one thing was sure. Blue lagoon had to be out. It was quite out of the way and would take up a good portion of the day. Taxis were not easy to come by and they were super expensive! It was better teamed up with some tour which other operators were doing. And the last nail in the coffin was that it was a man made pool heated by a geo-thermal plant nearby! That kind of ruined it for us. We researched some more and found that there were plenty of natural pools albeit smaller than the blue lagoon. We opted for one of them in our tours.

So we booked 3 day tours and kept the 4th day free to savour the sights and sounds of the capital city of Reykjavik.