Sky Lagoon
Cliffside geothermal lagoon with a seven-step ritual moving between hot pools, cold plunge and sauna.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sky Lagoon in Reykjavik opens with a question about its coldest pool, Kuldi, and its resemblance to Snorralaug, a nine-hundred-year-old spring in Reykholt tied to the medieval chieftain and saga writer Snorri Sturluson. It traces Icelandic bathing back more than a thousand years to the Norse settlers who found hot water bubbling from the ground, and the origin of Reykjavik's own name, bay of smoke. Snorralaug itself is now considered too precious to bathe in.
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