To counter the effects of dehydration, altitude radiation and jet lag, when I get to my hotel room or to my home after a flight, I prepare a bath with sea salt, which always makes me feel better.
It's a huge, natural geothermal bath of sea water located right on the coast, about 15 miles from Keflavik Reykjavík's airport.
Don't think of taking bath in sea, as it is very dangerous.
On the eve of a full moon, the sun having set, prepare and take a bath with sea salt added, by the light of a single candle.
Or you can wander down to the bath-warm sea and wait for the cranes to drop like missiles as they spot their own light lunch just below the surface.
A car is worth hiring: things are a bit spread out, and it helps for a visit to La Cava, a pretty little cove where we skin-dived in bath-warm sea then gorged on lush seafood at the beach restaurant.
It involves water jets, seaweed wraps, mud baths and sea-fog inhalation, meant to improve circulation, promote sleep, tone muscles and reduce cellulite.
If you're ambitious there are a few fishing villages to explore, and if motivation strikes, you might splash around in near-bath temperature seas.
It included a ritual bath in the sea, three days of fasting, and completion of the still-mysterious central rite.
At the end of a gangway sits the spa, where an oversized bath overlooking the sea is available for post-massage relaxation.
