Our first day in Iceland, we toured through theReykjanes Peninsula south of the Keflavik International airport. We passed the little fishing village of Grindavik facing the North Atlantic ocean and surrounded by green fields. Mostly though we saw lava fields with broken rises of frozen lava flows.
Across the lava fields, we saw Keilir. A mountain so perfectly triangle-shaped that it looks like one
of those mountains you drew as a kid — and this is actually where the
name comes from as Keilir means cone in Icelandic. Sailors have been using Keilir for
navigation for centuries.
The lake we passed along the way was surrounded by black sand but the water was crystal clear and the mountains beyond it still held snow drifts in May.
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