Okay, here’s the big one. About 40 photographs from a long afternoon walk around the city, culminating in a visit to the Perlan, the hot-water tanks built on a hill overlooking the city. The Icelanders got the wise idea to put a big viewing deck on top of the tanks and open it to everyone, as well as preserving a decently-sized park area around it.
Be warned, lots of pics after the jump.
Icelandic Invasion Day Three
Yup. Totally.
An Icelandic metal band, playing on some random street corner.
Another statue, this one's of Fridik Fridriksson.
The lake at the center of the city.
City Hall, built out over the lake.
This is an Icelandic art project. Really.
A duck. It seemed pretty docile.
Statue of some dragonslaying dude.
Destination: Perlan!
Looking across a highway at a spiral staircase.
Hallgrimskirkja, off the the north, from near the city airport.
Gas station artwork.
A random lawn next to the hospital. Perlan in the background.
On a nature trail to the Perlan, looking northwest at Hallgrimskirkja.
Icelandic hillside.
Looking north towards Mt. Esja from the Perlan's nature trail.
Northwest over the city from the Perlan's nature trail.
An old bunker concealed among the rocks.
Entrance to the bunker.
Looking out through the viewport in the bunker's pillbox. It was surprisingly clean, aside from the graffiti.
Another bunker nearby. This one's larger, but it's too hard to get inside.
Looking at another bunker-pillbox from the front.
Looking southwest over Reykjavíkurflugvöllur, the municipal airport.
A plane begins landing at the airport. The approach path takes him right by the Perlan.
Same plane, almost landed.
Arrival at the Perlan itself from the nature trail. Turns out this is the rear; the entrance is on the other side.
Some neat statues of hooded dudes near the Perlan's entrance.
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT
Waaaaaait a sec...
It's artificial.
Looking northeast, inland, from the Perlan's viewing deck.
Looking north towards Esja from the Perlan's viewing deck. That grey thing below contains boiling hot geothermal water.
Looking northwest over the downtown area from the Perlan's viewing deck.
Zoomed-in view of the southern parts of Reykjavík and the Hallgrimskirkja.
Westerly from the Perlan viewing deck.
Awesome graffiti.
Some kind of flying buffalo sculpture thing?
Random buildings on Borgartúni, near the liquor store (Vínbud).
All praise the Father, the Son and the Holy Cheesesteak.
Yes. You're an ásholt, two.
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