Our itinerary for today indicated that it was a travel day with no sights to see but it was so incorrect. Our guide had told us we'd see puffins before we left our overnight village, so we were all excited for them. So we drove a couple of kilometres to the puffin nesting grounds and were told we'd be there for half an hour, 1.5 hours later we left because three pwhales appeared 15 minutes after we arrived! They jumped about a lot but didn't beach to our disappointment. It was far better than our whale watching tour though. We then stopped again on our way out off the village, when we saw another six whales.
We then drove about 1.5 hours to a national park that contained Hengifoss waterfall. It was about an hour to hike up to it but well worth it. The walk down was a little slippery in places with loose gravel on some rather steep parts.
On the way to our accommodation for the night (a hotel on a farm in the middle of nowhere!) we stopped in a fishing village where I tried the most Icelandic of cakes, Skyr cake. It's like a lighter and not so sweet cheesecake with a more flavourful base, which I really enjoyed. My first Icelandic hot chocolate was the first time I've been given a straw with a hot chocolate and it had crunchy gold sprinkles! This isn't how all Icelandic hot chocolates are but they do generally have whipped cream apparently.
We also stopped at a light house to take photos of the very different landscape, now we're further east and in glacier country.
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