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26.August 1998

Iceland 1998 - Strokkur The night and especially the morning was terrible. I slept only short time and my knees were achy. I looked more like the adept on wheelchair. Our first stop was Storygeysir. Tere, we looked on father of all geysers, Geyisir. The biggest geyser in this area, Strokkur, had erupted water to 30 m height. It was active until year 1930. Later it was active only from to time after earthquakes and only for short time. Icelanders tried to change it, and they discovered technique for activating geyser. Always, when they threw a few kilograms of soap to geyser, geyser erupted. This technique they used occasionally for important foreign visits, but later it didn't help.

Iceland 1998 - Gullfoss After geyser visit we continue to Gullfoss, golden waterfalls. This waterfall was really beautiful. We also visited centre of culture on Iceland, church Skalholt. Here were written most of well known old Icelandic sagas. Our next stop in history of Iceland was valley Thingvellir. There you can find the oldest parliament of the world. It was based in 930. Thingvellir is located on rifts of Europe and America continents. Here groups of Vikings from whole Iceland each year met together and voted for new laws, and solved their's argues. There was also possibility to repay from killing somebody. At evening we reached our camp in capital of Iceland, Reykjavik. After building tents and dinner we prepared us for night city exhibition. We found a small coffee-bar, where we drank beer and tequila and rested. We returned back to camp at 10:00 PM. We were happy, that we could sleep on plain surface in our tents.