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Just love this place :0) a must visit if travelling to Iceland .....even if only in few hour lay over during the day at the international airport it is possible to go there ...
www.re.is/DayTours/BlueLagoon/
Just as an additional info about travelling on your own around Iceland, bus passports are a great choice during the summer season...the you can reach all corner and the highlands on your own speed :0)
www.sterna.is/en/page/bus_passports
Helga
" Explored " 21.07.10 :)
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Ölüdeniz (literally "Dead Sea", due to its calm waters even during storms; official translation: Blue Lagoon) is a town of the municipality and district of Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 6,132 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town . It is a beach resort on the Turkish Riviera, at the conjunction point of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. It is located 14 km south of Fethiye, near Mount Babadağ.
It has a sandy bay at the mouth of Ölüdeniz, on a blue lagoon. The beach itself is a pebble beach. The lagoon is a national nature reserve and construction is strictly prohibited. The seawater of Ölüdeniz is famous for its shades of turquoise and aquamarine, while its beach is an official Blue Flag beach.
Ölüdeniz is also famous for its paragliding opportunities. It is a popular site due to its views, stable weather conditions, and Mount Babadağ's exceptional height. The possibility to fly above water makes it also a prime location for SIV (safety training) and paragliding acrobatics.
I thought it an odd sight: the bathrobes, raw lava rocks, and what appears to be an industrial plant and chimneys beyond.
But this is the Blue Lagoon in Iceland perhaps taken from an angle you don't normally see. I must admit I couldn't see a nice view anywhere apart from the two young women frolicking in the shallows immediately in front of our lenses. It wasn't what I was looking for.
PS. Apparently TripAdvisor made the Blue Lagoon one of their Natural Wonders of the World. The only trouble is it isn't natural at all. A geothermal powerstation was built there in the background and someone saw a commercial opportunity for a tourist attraction. Located within reach of the main airport and Reykjavik, the powerstation pushed out loads of warm 'waste' water. It was easy to pipe it a few hundred yards to an area nearby where they dug a hole in the ground and let the warm water flow into it. So the whole thing is man made and not 'natural' at all.
The Blue Lagoon, southeast of Keflavík International Airport, Iceland, offers a chance to lounge in warm silica-laden mineral waters.
Taken last night ,the sky looked pretty good but someone blew the cloouds the wrong way hehe
this is at the blue lagoon ,or behind it ,you dont swimm on this side ,but its great to shoot here
On this very day last year this was my view! Day 1 of an epic 2400km road trip around southern Iceland.
This is the Blue Lagoon. Well, it's the outside bit that you are not allowed to bathe in. The water was very hot and the colour made it so inviting.
I'm going to post a picture a day from our adventure... Only to remind me of the last time I was free!!
270 mile round trip ;-) worth every £££ of fuel
slept 12 hours after a tough week of treking .
work now for 3 nights then JJ is here for a few days before we go to OZ :-)
We booked our summer holiday to Thailand this year already since tickets are so expensive nowadays.
I remember this little Malaysian island 64 km south of the Thai border. We spend such a nice time here in summer of 2000. I know such places are hard to find nowadays. Tourist industry will find this island one day....
Photo taken in 2000 with a Kodak panorama camera.
In the absence of tourism, economic activity on the Pulau Redang Island would be limited to small-scale fishing. Owing to the Islands' protected status, the main tourist activities are minimal in environmental impact: sunbathing, snorkeling, scuba diving, turtle and shark-watching. The only electrical power is provided by diesel generators and is not 24-hour. Fresh water is provided by springs. In this respect, the Pulau Redang Islands are prized by tourists as an 'escape' from the modern world.
The only access to the Islands is by boat from the fishing villages of Kuala Besut and Tok Bali. Local tourist operators run fishing boats ones per day.
P.S. wanna know where this place is? Click on here
Gary wanted me to follow up his shot (which was in Explore) with a few more of our recent visit there. I know he has said that he will go back there with someone who looks better in a bikini...….. Well, I would like to point out that I was somewhat hurt by the comment, as he has never seen me in a bikini and I hadn't even packed one for that day.
Any how I won't be going back there, in red and white stripy bikini or any other attire. I get the impression it is the No.1 destination in Iceland. Basic entry costs in the region of Eur 70 rising to Eur 90 to include private changing facilities, up to around Eur 495 for the works. See booking.bluelagoon.com/packages
The lagoon doesn't appear much more than waist deep with people bending their knees to get the water up to their shoulders. Perhaps I'm wrong. Most packages include one free drink, but do I want to sit crouched in warm water sipping a beer from a plastic cup and wondering what you are supposed to do when you are in there? I dunno. Not my idea of fun.
Thankfully it was our first proper stop, with nice toilets and lots of sanitizer, but for me, proper Iceland started when we left there.
The Blue Lagoon Iceland - fake tilt shift
A "must see" destination, I think.
Geothermal.
Not just heat - its Superheat!
Funnily enough if it wasn't for this photo I probably would not have a Flickr account.
The travel company I went to Iceland with had a competition for a travel "blog", which back then was a relatively new idea I think. They gave a few names where you could get a free blog facility and one of them was Yahoo! I remembered I had a log in from years ago for e-mail, so I dug it out and started a blog. At some point Yahoo! tried to get people to put the photos on Flickr which then linked to the blog. And here we are.....