It was an early Sunday morning city tour that brought us to the Church of Hallgrímskirkja. The road that led up to the church was quite unique and painted in rainbow colors. You couldn’t help but follow it… 🌈 ❤️
It brought you to the front door which was majestic, to say the least. We were meeting there in front of the church to do a city tour, which is the best way to see any new city, in my opinion. As we were waiting for our guide to arrive, Nate and I decided to go into the church. We were fortunate enough to see choir practice before the day officially began. The video clip below is what we captured…
This beautiful singing is a sound I will never forget, and we just happened to be there waiting on our tour guide…we would have completely missed it, otherwise. Talk about being somewhere at the right moment to hear something like this…It’s a little over a minute long, but absolutely worth hearing! It still gives me goosebumps…I truly believe we were meant to hear this. We had traveled so far, to experience this on a whim, unplanned, was a gift.
I have never heard anything so beautiful. I am not a publicly religious person, I keep my thoughts and beliefs to myself as they are deeply personal and I like to keep them that way. I will say this… this moved me to where I didn’t want to leave. It is amazing to me that humans can make sounds this lovely and emotionally moving. And this was just practice for them! What a talented group of individuals who happened to be singing as we were waiting to begin our busy day. I feel lucky to have been there and to have heard it in person.
This church is something that should be seen, if only for its architecture. The church was commissioned in 1937 and sits on a hilltop in Reykjavic. The designer of the church tried to mimic mountains and glaciers…very appropriate seeing as that is what surrounds Iceland and makes up their textured landscape. The church took 41 years to build and comes with a statue out front of Leif Erikson the explorer. I only wish we could have toured the entire church! But, that was not a part of the tour….
Our tour took us throughout the streets of Reykjavic which was really helpful navigating the city on our own later. In fact, if I could do it all over again, I’d book the city tour FIRST. It’s not a huge city and is absolutely walkable. We had a tiny apartment close to the Sun Voyager sculpture, which is really beautiful as it sits overlooking the icy water and mountains. It was designed to be an ode to the sun, it almost looks like its ready to set sail and explore at any moment. The sculpture was unveiled on the cities birthday in 1990.
Just one of the many things we did on our adventure in Iceland! So much history, we certainly toured a few museums and took in the culture as much as possible, but that is for a different blog post!
Iceland is a great experience and one that felt like a once in a lifetime trip for us…except I think it’s going to be a twice in a lifetime trip, we plan to do a summer version. The days are long, the waterfalls are unfrozen, and the beaches are ready for people to explore. I can’t wait!!!
GO ADVENTURE while you have your health and can take voyages like this one, you won’t regret seeing Iceland…
Travel Safe
Heather and Nate
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