Friday the 23rd March - East Iceland
This day we were traveling to the East side of the Iceland. The first place we stopped was aluminum factory “Alcoa” in Reyðarfjörður. Where was presentation about how 4 t of aluminum ore becomes into a 2 t of aluminum oxide and after that it becomes into 1 t of pure aluminum. We even had a chance to see were aluminum is being melted and poured into ingots.
The second please we visited was Fljótsdalur. There is a hydroelectric plant which was located inside of BIG mountain. There we saw a presentation about the plant and how it was built. The most interesting thing was that we had a chance to go inside the mountain and see the tops of the six power generators.
The third place we were was tourism center of national park. There we listened to a lecture about national park and its region. The things that we learned were that they had lack of trees but can be proud of the biggest glacier in Europe.
On the way back we drove over Öxi which is a mountain road about 530 above sea level. It was covered with snow. We stopped to have a look at the view and play in the snow. The weather was amazing – sunshine and 15°C.
Written by Jonas