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Árbæjarlaug Geothermal Pool
It's a step out of town, but the slickly designed Árbæjarlaug Geothermal Pool is well known as the best family pool: it's half inside and half outside, and there are lots of watery amusements (slides, waterfalls and massage jets) to keep the kids entertained. Take bus 19.
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Ingólfstorg
Popular with skateboarders, the stone square Ingólfstorg is notable for its billowing steam vent, where pent-up geothermal energy finds a release.
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Laugar Geothermal Spa
The new five-star Laugar Geothermal Spa is attached to Laugardalslaug Geothermal Pool and offers delicious ways to pamper yourself. There are six themed saunas and steam rooms, a vast and well-equipped gym, and beauty and massage clinics with soothing treatments (detox wraps, facials and hot-stone therapies).
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Laugardalslaug Geothermal Pool
Laugardalslaug Geothermal Pool is the largest pool in Iceland, with the best facilities: an Olympic-size indoor pool, an outdoor pool, four hot pots and a whirlpool, a steam bath, and a curling 86m water slide. Take bus 14.
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Laugardalur
Laugardalur was once the main source of Reykjavík's hot water supply - the name translates as 'Hot-Springs Valley'. Buses 14, 15, 17, 19 and S2 pass within a few hundred metres of Laugardalur.
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Nauthólsvík Geothermal Beach
The dinky Nauthólsvík Geothermal Beach on the edge of the Atlantic should by rights be visited only by seals and seagulls. However, it's packed with happy bathers in summer, thanks to golden sand imported from Morocco and an artificial hot spring that keeps the water at a pleasant 18°C to 20°C. There are sociable hot pots on shore and in the sea, a snack bar, changing rooms (around Ikr200 ), and canoes and rowing boats for hire on Thursday. Get there on bus 16.
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Old Wash House
Just north of the Reykjavík Botanic Gardens you'll find the Old Wash House - sadly, rather graffitied - where washerwomen once scrubbed the city's dirty laundry in sulphurous pools. A small open-air exhibition of old photos brings the past to life.
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Sundhöllin Geothermal Pool
Reykjavík's oldest pool (with a definite 'municipal baths' feel) is close to Hlemmur bus station and is the only indoor pool in the city.
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Vesturbæjarlaug Geothermal Pool
Within walking distance of the centre (or take bus 15), Vesturbæjarlaug has a basic 25m pool and three hot pots.
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Volcano Show
Eccentric eruption-chaser Villi Knudsen is the photographer, owner and presenter of the fascinating Volcano Show, a film show that captures 50 years of Icelandic volcanoes. Although some of the footage is a bit old and wobbly, you're still left reeling by images of the town Heimaey being crushed by molten lava, or the island Surtsey boiling its way out of the sea.
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