It’s Tuesday, Tuesday is new video day and today is the third part of the ten-part series on geothermal pools, lagoons, spas & hot springs. It’s a quest to find out which is the best – or at least, the best according to a specific set of point-scoring criteria. Today I’m taking you to Laugarvatn Fontana, on the Golden Circle.
Fontana is powered by hot springs in the sand around the edges of the lake, the very lake that provided the warm water for the practical early Icelanders of 1000AD to be baptised on the occasion of the country’s conversion from Odin to Jesus – why get baptised in the freezing rift lake at Þingvellir where the decision was made when you can trek twenty-odd miles to do it in warm water?
Today, that same warm water is used to bake rye bread in the sands and to provide the heat for an entire spa complex, complete with fresh-from-the-Earth steam room. How does it compare to the parts one and two, the Blue Lagoon and Myvatn Nature Baths? Watch the video and find out!