Sue's Travels: Return to Reykjavik, Iceland

I woke up despite no wake-up call as requested. After breakfast, we met for the hike to the Hunting Wall. The Hunting Wall story goes back several hundred years when there were Rain deer in Greenland. The hunters would hide behind a rock and show antlers which would encourage the rain deer to come to them and then the hunters would herd the rain deer between two rock walls.

Our guide was concerned about keeping our feet dry which didn’t apply to me since I was wearing my Antarctic boots. Consequently he tried to take us up and around every patch of potentially wet lad of which there were many. The climbing and walking were not exactly easy for me, but I stuck it out not that I had any choice since we were not on any path let alone road. We finally got to the hunting wall and were told the story, which had to date back several hundred years since there have been no rain deer in Greenland for at least three to four hundred years. After we reached the location and were told the story, we were served coffee or tea and cookies.

On the trip back a group split off taking a different route which they felt would be shorter. The guide’s path back was actually shorter since he didn’t assume that everything was wet. We actually got back before twelve when lunch was served and we made it back faster than the group that split off.

After lunch, we headed to the airport where we boarded the Icelandic Airline plane to Reykjavik’s local airport. There was a mix-up about which hotel we were supposed to be in causing us to go from one hotel to another and then back to the original one! I was upset that there were no bell hops to carry my luggage and the tour leader brought it to my room.