First Stop – Reykjavik
View on the way to our AirBnb in Reykjavik
The Perlan Museum Reykjavik – A natural history museum of Iceland, thanks to Kim for the recommendation. Built from what was initially old water tanks on a hill overlooking the city. It has an amazing Lava and Aurora display, a giant Ice cave, and a geological time table of Icelands history and geothermic energy.
Whale Sightseeing and Whale museum – on our whale watching expedition we were luckily enough to see one humpback whale repeatedly. Aiden got some great photos and a few short videos. We also enjoyed seeing the harbour and landscape from the ocean.
We loved going to the whale museum in Reykjavík, where there were models of life-size whales 23 varieties. We learned that the blue whale can be up to 120 tons, some of the whales lived 100 to 200 years and there was evidence of old harpoons from the 18th century. Kids loved the whale Origami🐳. It was great because it had an audio narrator that you connected to through your phone with six or seven stations where you would go and learn some of the most interesting facts about the whales, and it was nice to listen and look around, rather than have to read everything. The close-up videos of whales were really amazing !
