The town of Akureyri, where we boarded a bus for an 8 hour tour of the Diamonds of the North. A fancy name to compete with the famed "Golden Circle in southern Iceland.

This tunnel was 4.5 miles long and took us 6.5 minutes to travel through!

This is the river flowing below the Godafoss falls. We were able to see the falls on our way back to the ship but didn't get to stop.

Enjoyed seeing some Icelandic horses.

And more sheep of course!

Our first stop was the town of Husavik. They had a pretty harbor area.

This is the town where some of the Will Ferrell movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga was filmed. Eurovision is apparently very big in Iceland!

The flat area of this part of Iceland is where the North American and the Eurasian Tectonic plates are diverging causing the island to be pulled apart (about an inch a year). This divergent boundary is also cause for the volcanic and geothermal activity.

An earthquake in 1976 caused this crack to form, it also caused earth to drop so much in one area that a lake was formed.

We stopped in the Asbyrgi area to look over an area carved by glacier run off rivers.

The river really carved out some amazing shapes and caves into this area.

So much of this region had signs of volcanic past including these cinder cones.

The Asbyrgi area is one of the places NASA sent Neil Armstrong and other astronauts to practice for their moonwalks due to the moonlike surfaces found there.

Neil Armstrong supposedly took an Icelandic coin into space and came back and gifted it to a local he befriended while he was living there.

We were brought to this restaurant in the middle of nowhere for lunch. It may be just inside the national park lands, but it certainly looked like it catered to tour busses!

Truly in the middle of nowhere.

Our highlight of the tour was stopping at Dettifoss. This waterfall has the greatest volume of any waterfall in Europe.

500 cubic meters per second plunge over its edge.

Dettifoss is 150 feet high and 330 feet wide.

When the sun is out and hits the mist just right, rainbows appear!

We got lucky as the sun came out right when we got there!

On the other side of the river, some daring (stupid) people hiked down very close to the falls without any guard rails. Zoom in to see how small they are compared to the falls!

Just upstream from Dettifoss is this beautiful falls called Selfoss.

After leaving the falls, we headed to the Myvatn Lake area. This lake is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with plenty of geothermal activity.

Steam being harvested for use as energy.

The Icelandic people having little wood for ovens used to build ovens over the geothermal steam vents to cook their bread. Some still carry on the tradition.

This is called the Mountain of the Mine, where Denmark used to collect sulfur.

We stopped at the Dimmuborgir lava fields where we could also overlook Lake Myvatn and Hverfjall crater.