Study Tour - Alcoa Fjarðaál, Egilsstaðir

Previous night was the last one spent in Skjaldarvik during this tour. In the morning we left Akureyri and went east through flatland, which rather seamed like desert sometimes, with density of 2 people per 100 km. After that we reached a beautiful valley, which lead us to a city called Egilsstaðir. We were to spend a night there, but before that we had a vist to a newly build (by Polish workers of course) aluminium smelter.
Map of the trip (click to zoom).












Valley on the way.
























Alcoa aluminium smelter is located in Reydarfjordur. It's powered entirely by hydro power plant and consumes about 570 MW of energy. It's really huge. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but I took some from the outside.













Safety first!







































After the visit we went back to Egilsstaðir to take a quick bath in a swimming pool and have a small reception and dinner at Mannvit company. Then we went to a place where we spent the night. It was a camping place with small cottages near a lake.