Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO Site

On my last day in Iceland, I had just enough time for a quick visit to Thingvellir National Park, near Reykjavik, before returning my rental car and heading for the airport in Keflavik. This site was filled with history, with fascinating stories of community and parliamentary gatherings, judgements and even executions, from hundreds of years ago. The small historic Lutheran church Þingvallakirkja, dates from 1859, but apparently a church has stood at the site since Christianity was introduced in the 11th century.

Location of Thingvellir National Park near Reykjavik

Thingvellir National Park

A common snipe, looking a bit bedraggled

Ancient lava flows

A nice waterfall

Þingvallakirkja, an historic Lutheran church from 1859.

Views from inside Þingvallakirkja, the historic church

I spied this redwing, a bird I had never seen before.