Rainy Day Reykjavik Recommendations

Is it a cold rainy miserable day in Reykjavik during your visit? Need a break from blustering artic winds? Well first, don’t fret – the weather can change in just an hour (or as Icelanders say, wait 15 minutes). I definitely found this to be true – it could be raining sideways or overcast and foggy or snowing, and an hour drive later between the airport or Reykjavik, or towards the Golden Circle, or the waterfalls in South Iceland, and it was clear and then the sun even came out! But let’s say you want something to do in Reykjavik while you wait out the weather. Here are some rainy day Reykjavik recommendations of things to do indoors.
Rainy Day Reykjavik Recommendations: visit Perlan Museum! Perlan's version recreates the Látrabjarg cliff but without pesky wind and rain or driving to Iceland's Westfjords and you won't even need binoculars. You can go up to interactive viewfinders and move them around to different points and get a little clip of what is happening - varying from the nest inside with a chick or the prowling of an artic fox or other natural interactions. Rainy Day Reykjavik Recommendations: visit Perlan Museum! If you have people in your party who are unlikely to take part in a real ice cave visit, Perlan has a manmade ice cave to give you a taste of the colors. The artificial cave is a 100 meter ice tunnel that uses 350 tons of real Icelandic mountain snow, and is kept at -15 °  C (5 ° F). The ice cave has glacier mice (Jöklamýs), moulins, a crystal cave section, and a piece sadly of Ok glacier, Iceland's first glacier that lost its status and was declared dead - a harbinger of what is to come for the rest of Iceland's glacier in the next 200 years.

 
 
 
 
 
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