00:00:00 John Daub: Welcome to a live stream in a bath in the onsen here at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. It's a comfortable 40 degrees Celsius. There's Kanae enjoying the baths and I've never streamed live from inside a bath like this. It is a massive place. Hey, how you doing everybody? I thought I would do a live stream and compare Iceland's Blue Lagoon to Japanese onsen, so give you a sense of what it's like to be in a bath like this.

00:00:30 John Daub: I'm going to try to get inside because we are from Japan. This is a totally different experience. One, it's huge. It's actually a lagoon. When they say Blue Lagoon, they mean it. It's a blue lagoon. The other thing is that people are wearing bathing suits. In Japan, we don't wear bathing suits. Are you wearing a bathing suit? Yes, she's wearing a bathing suit. Me too. It's just to be polite with the culture, but I don't have any problem not wearing it. It's weird seeing people wearing bathing suits. I've never seen that before. It is really relaxing.

00:01:00 Kanae Daub: Now this water, this place, a lot of people don't know is actually a man-made lagoon and it was made, of course, the water comes from underground, but the color of the water is volcanic, of course, but it was man-made.

00:01:31 John Daub: I didn't know about that. I thought this was all natural, but it's huge. I know that the signal might not be perfect. We just seem to have it, so we thought we would try. The other thing that's completely different is this is a massive tourist attraction on another level. Like, it's super expensive. How much was it? This is way too expensive. It was like $240 for two people for the basic plan, not including transportation.

00:02:01 John Daub: It's just insane. It was $240 total, and the transportation was pretty chaotic, but once you get here, you forget about all the problems, and you just melt away and let your spirits like the water enter into your spirit, and you feel so relaxed. Check it out over here. You can see we are having a pretty good time. You can see how the water has reacted to the rocks here. There's a ton of volcanic activity here in Iceland, and let me just take a quick look at these rocks.

00:02:32 John Daub: Actually white, not blue. I think it's the color of the sky that makes it like this, but it's really on there. Oh, I'm getting cold now. I'm outside of the water. Okay, get back in. Ah, that's nice. You want to try the face pack? No, you can get like a face pack here. Kanae has the GoPro. Where's the GoPro? Don't lose it. Yeah, that's the shark cam. So we're going to do a little GoPro action and maybe share this on Instagram. I want to just take a quick look at the water.

00:03:11 John Daub: We're going to do a little bit of a tour of the Blue Lagoon live. I don't think anyone's ever done this before. Have they? If they have, then I don't feel as much of a pioneer. All right. My glide cam is actually swimming through the waters. I'm going to turn the camera around and enjoy this really bizarre view. It's so much bigger than a Japanese onsen, and the thing that strikes me is, one, everyone's wearing bathing suits. Two, it's ridiculously expensive. And number three, it's more like a pool than it is an onsen.

00:03:46 John Daub: They have drinks in here. How does that work? Instead of relaxing, people are kind of doing both, but you can also play in it. It's weird. And we can also have smartphones in here. That's also weird, too. I'm getting away from the main house, so I'm not sure how good the Wi-Fi is going to be. But I just want to give you an idea of how huge this is. All right. I think that's it over there. I see something over there. There's a bar where you can get drinks. And then there's also a face mask place where you can put the silica on your face. And apparently it makes you 20 years younger. And I think I totally need that.

00:04:16 John Daub: This is the iPhone XS. Is it lagoon proof? I think it is. The water is more white than blue. It does look blue, but it's more white. Is the water salty? Yeah. It's a little bit. This is Iceland. We wanted to try this because we come from Japan, which is an onsen culture. It's a culture of bathing. And this is just one of those unique experiences that we have to try. We missed the Northern Lights yesterday because it was just cloudy. And to make up for that, we've come here about four hours before our flight to go back to New York.

00:05:33 John Daub: It's just epic to be floating right here and now I'm looking back at the changing area. Yeah it's pretty unique. Hey Mr. Potter, hey Firecracker Ella, I see a lot of familiar people joining us for this live stream. I'm gonna see if we can find that silica face pack. I think it was to the left over there, right? Oh it's through the murk. Yeah check it out. All right let's go do that. We have to leave here in an hour so we're gonna keep this live stream short to about 10-15 minutes and then we're gonna go inside and change.

00:06:20 John Daub: It's getting a little bit deeper. I'm standing up right now. I'm completely standing up. Can you stand up? Oh I'm standing up too. It's not that bad. It's not that deep. You're faking it. Oh yeah there's some fits in it. Oh now there's people wearing the face mask. Check it out look at that lady. She looks like one of the Christmas hags from Iceland that eat the kids. I heard some Icelandic tales. When you wear face masks it is very scary. I remember my first time as a kid my mom was wearing one it freaked me out. It's starting to rain too. Wow. Those they got face masks on that's hardcore and they're taking a selfie.

00:07:17 John Daub: What Marco Polo it's me no you can wear bathing suits that's another weird thing with this. I'm going over to the face mask area where everyone looks like a monster and we're gonna try that out. Hey Diana thank you. I'm gonna put that towards a face mask. We've got shirt cam from Lenny. That's for you Lenny. Oh it's salty. Oh I can put this on. Put this on lunch to save it on my face and wipe it off later for lunch. It's pretty salty but surprisingly it doesn't have that sulfuric smell to it it's not that strong. Look at that lady's got it on there. Oh my word look at that.

00:08:14 John Daub: Can we get this? Let's go get the pack. They said you can help me get this pack. That dude's got it all over his face. All right let's go get it on. It's starting to rain and the rain is super cold compared to the hot water. All right let's get the silica face pack. I guess you put it in your hand. This is complimentary. Oh this is gross looks like yogurt. All right no just okay. I'm just gonna follow their lead. I've got it in my mouth. I feel younger. This looks like oh it doesn't taste good.

00:09:47 John Daub: I look like the son of Leatherface. Don't eat it. Can I? Are you putting it on? It got on my teeth it tastes like toothpaste. Oh you do it a lot better. You didn't put enough on that's not enough. I got on my teeth. People are doing it a lot better they're doing it very carefully. I kind of just shotgunned it. Oh that looks you put a lot more work in yours. What does mine look like? A minute after this is insane. All right we've gone this is face mask gone wrong. How long? She said five minutes. I'm not trying to it's dripping in it tastes earthy.

00:10:58 John Daub: What are we doing? Can I? What did we decide to do this is wrong. I don't know this feels why are people looking at me funny? I didn't do it she did it for me. Every day I don't know what we're doing Lenny this is for you brother we did this for you. This is one you bargain for. Why do you have cheese on your face? It's not cheese it's silica pack from the Blue Lagoon. Once again we're in Iceland this is the Blue Lagoon where you can take a dip in an onsen which is naturally occurring geothermally heated water but this one has a lot of minerals in it so much so that it's blue.

00:11:32 John Daub: And the result is that there's a lot of sediment that you can use silica which is basically sand it has lots of vitamins. You see they have it too it's not me it's them too. How do you wash this off? Look it's dripping. I want some on my nose. We're gonna look 20 years younger when we get to Immigration in America and then no one's gonna know we're not you're gonna recognize us from our passports. That's cool that's the way we do it right now so thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video bye bye. This is the melting geisha. Can I show us the melting geisha the melting geisha? Yes I like that this should be the name of this livestream.

00:12:28 John Daub: They do have lifeguards here I like that. Do you see the guy in the police vest over there? They're very serious. I tried to get him to laugh they won't laugh. If you try to tickle them they will tackle you and it does not look good in the boys locker room. You have to bathe naked we have to shower naked which I got no problem with but some people were complaining and after you've cleaned yourself off you can change into your bathing suit and I think I'd rather do it Japanese style. Oh don't put it on me what are you doing? Ah is it get it off me I'm gonna how do I get this off this is not funny anymore yeah.

00:13:19 John Daub: I got it in my teeth it doesn't taste like much. All right you want to go explore a little bit and no one's complaining about how bad the Wi-Fi is so we seem to be doing okay. The other thing that I like about this is that it's more social. It's konyaku I guess you can you can do. I could be in here with you for example and in Japan we would separate except for a few onsen in Japan which are mixed but this one we can be together and that's nice and if you're with a family that's even better. I don't mind these guys are wearing shirts it's a little bit much but you know who am I to complain. This is not Japan everyone be snickering at people but this is a different culture when you're in a different culture you do things in a different way and that's the way they do it in Iceland.

00:14:25 John Daub: Did you eat any? I didn't. Okay. I'm gonna get rid of this can I just wash it in the water yeah okay how long did two is it five minutes right she said five minutes. There's a restaurant here that they say is five star gourmet I'm not gonna eat there I think this is one of the biggest tourist traps in Iceland but how could you not go here right like I mean this is look they looking at us from the sky I mean the water is blue and it's really natural.

00:15:02 John Daub: It's just like what do they say you got to do it when you're here because who when are you going to come back here? But the thing is it's just so expensive. It was like 80 euro or something ridiculous. $99 just to enter okay? Plus the transfer charges. So it ends up being like 240 euro or like $300 something like that. But it's kind of worth it. You just have to do it once in your life. All right can I wash it off now? Yeah. Look these ladies used to be in their 80s now they're in their 20s. Isn't that crazy? This is with the face mask. Look at that. It doesn't just change your age. It's getting dry? Yeah. All right how do we do this? Just go under? Maybe.

00:15:50 John Daub: Ah me again. I totally forgot. I forgot what I look like. I was starting to get used to clown face. The melted geisha look. Ah! It burns my eyes. Ah! Can I? It hurts. It's hot? You all right? Don't try to be a hero and look for fish down there. There's none in there. That's hair gel. It didn't quite make it out. I got to go back for some more hair gel rinse. All right. Hey Anil. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas from Iceland. Thank you so much. Here we go I'm going to get the rest of it off. Yeah it's younger now. According to Kanae I look 20 years younger. You still got it on it. The geisha look.

00:16:56 Kanae Daub: All right.

00:16:56 John Daub: This is San's stabilizer. I don't think DJI makes one that's waterproof yet. I'm doing my best to keep it. Elijah way too kind. You definitely look younger. I like that word definitely because it's so true. Kanae you look like you're 13 now. Really? Look at that. Oh no 13? Yeah. You need an adult present. But there are lots of kids here and it's pretty neat to see how family friendly it is. It's a neat experience. It's just really pricey.

00:17:24 John Daub: And I talked to one of our viewers Sindri whose nickname is Sparkle. He's one of our viewers in Iceland. We met with him and he showed us around the city yesterday. And one of the things he said about this is that it used to be cheaper. And if you had like a skin disease or something they would give you a discount so you'd be able to enter and come more often because it was therapeutic. I guess you'd be like a doctor's note. But because of the tourists because of the price hikes even that they still have discounts but even that is expensive. There's no way getting around it. I spent about 30 euro on two sandwiches a coffee and a juice yesterday. That's the tourist prices.

00:18:06 John Daub: But you can find you can live cheaper if you try to find less touristy places. It's a little bit cheaper. We ate breakfast by going to the supermarket and buying bread and other things. They had really good hummus. They had some other really good salads and things like this that you can put on bread. It's kind of the Scandinavian style of breakfast. And they had good cheeses that were reasonably priced. So we had two breakfasts for like 10 euro and it would have cost us 120 euro if we ate the hotel breakfast. Just to give you an idea of how you can save money. So you can kind of travel cheaply in Iceland but it is pretty pricey. Yeah it came out to 4200 Icelandic kroner at the Joe and the Juice Cafe which is like 30 something dollars which is kind of crazy.

00:19:11 John Daub: Are you going to do any synchronized swimming? You want to do it? Synchronized swimming? You have to go upside down. Japan's really strong at synchro swimming. I'm telling you it would be really we'd freak out. We'd have an audience here. And you're a dancer totally. All right some water ballet. Yeah. GCKE's got it right. Some water ballet. All right guys thank you so much for watching. We're going to kind of keep it short. We're in the 20 minutes now. Oh Richard. Richard keeps it going a little bit longer. Richard Merry Christmas. Thank you Richard. Thank you Lenny. Thank you Neil. Thank you guys.

00:19:51 John Daub: We're going to the flight. We got to leave here at 3 and our flight's at 5. And this is 15 minutes away from the airport. So it's really really quick. We can get back to the airport and we'll be an hour and a half before the flight leaves. We checked in online. Icelandair was pretty good I thought. The food you have to pay for. It's kind of like a LCC a low-cost carrier but it's pretty neat and cheap. That was the cheapest option for us to go back to New York across the Atlantic as Icelandair and it gave us a chance to stay here for two nights. And Reykjavik is awesome. It is the most friendly little village where you can actually get to know people. After a while you start to see the same people. People are pretty friendly for the most part. You say a little Icelandic takk you know thank you and people are very appreciative of it.

00:20:50 John Daub: A couple of facts before I leave. No Thrills Airline. This is directly from the bath. You don't see this information on the internet. Blue Lagoon facts. Nine million liters the amount of geothermal sea water in the Blue Lagoon. 40 hours the time it takes for all the Blue Lagoon's water to naturally renew itself. Oh so it's naturally renewing. Now I know it's not this is a man-made lagoon. 6500 feet or 1981 meters the depth at which the Blue Lagoon's geothermal sea water originates. That's pretty normal for Japan too. It goes down about a thousand meters in Japan. 38 degrees Celsius which is comfortable 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I think that might be wrong but it's pretty warm. It's comfortable.

00:21:39 John Daub: The air temperature is minus two or three degrees out here. It's a little bit cooler than Reykjavik but you don't feel it. Like I'm standing up now. Oh and I'm not cold at all. Now I'm cold. You get cool after about 10 seconds but yeah it's really comfortable in the water. 800 years is the age of the lava surrounding the Blue Lagoon. And I might take a volcanic rock back home for my mom. Silica is the white silica mud which I used for the pack. The minerals Blue Lagoon's geothermal sea water possesses a unique potent array of mineral salts that have revitalizing effects on the mind and body. That's true. I feel younger. And algae this is what gives it the color I believe right? Algae is unique because it profoundly has beneficial effects for the skin.

00:22:28 John Daub: And here's a map. This is the final thing. Yeah this is a map of the area. We are here and this is how big it is. Can we swim out to the middle of nowhere? It's called the retreat. I bet you there's nobody out there. Those who go never come back. It's sort of looks like that. And we've only just been in here. We went to the mask bar and we kind of went here but there's so much more. So we're going to explore this really quickly with the GoPro. Maybe I'll post something on YouTube later but I love this.

00:22:52 John Daub: This is a culture where you can experience like an onsen but in Iceland and they just do it differently. They just do it differently. Is this better than Japan? It's a hard one. It's difficult question. Yeah it's hard to compare but I can tell you this. It's a lot of fun. And if you are in Iceland I recommend this. If you have you know $250 to spend on three hours it might be worth it. This is what you get and a nice view and security. Always feel safe.

00:23:41 John Daub: If you had a machine gun there would be a lot cooler. Like we were in Paris at Charles de Gaulle Airport and there's a lot of security there. Check it out down here. That looks like ice cream or yogurt. It's not. These are what keep track of how much you buy and spend. It's like at a Japanese onsen as well. You can touch the dude like this and it opens lockers and things like this. It's pretty cool. Check in took about a minute. I don't know what else I can tell you. It's just expensive. We got the GoPro. We're gonna go out and do it. All right. So if you like this click that like button. I might do some more live streams from Reykjavik Airport. I'll see if we can get 250 likes and see you guys on the other side. See you in America. We're gonna be in America at 6:30 tonight. We arrive in New York. So from Iceland to the US. All right. Bye guys. Wow this is awesome. How far do you think we can go?