This short and easy mystery is a warm welcome to visit
the Laugardalur park and the Reykjavik Botanic Garden.
Pay attention to the opening hours of the free admission Reykjavik Botanic Garden!
Opening hours:
Summer (May 1st –September 30th) 10:00 – 22:00
Café Flora is open in the display greenhouse from May 1st – September 30th
Winter (October 1st – April 30th) 10:00 – 15:00
Café Flora is open at weekends in December. The display greenhouse is closed December 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st and January 1st
www.grasagardur.is
During a short walk less than 1 km, try to find some sculptures and answer the questions.
It should be possible to finish within 1 hour.
Start at the Laugardalur washing pools where you can find some information panels.
In the 19th century and beginning of the 20th the women in Reykjavík used to wash their laundry in these hot springs.
From here, you just have to look around for the first two sculptures, then proceed to the southeast where you can enter the beautiful botanic garden and admire its plants, flowers and sculptures.
Hungry? Cafe Flora will satisfy your needs.
Quest:
Find the ‘Rose’. Below a poem inscripted on a stone you read the name of a Dutch cabaretier.
--->Q1 Number of letters first name Dutch performer.
Only a short distance away, you will see a hardworking woman washing.
--->Q2 Year the sculpture was made.
Enter the Botanical Garden and go look for the man born in 1911 and author of a book about birds.
--->Q3 Year the book was published.
--->Q4 Number of big blue columns.
Some steps further south you can find a sculpture of an unlucky man.
--->Q5 Difference years on placard.
--->Q6 Number of legs.
You are hungry, are you? Go find the hungry animal.
--->Q7 Last two digits of the year.
Final from Café Flora published coordinates N 64° 08.401 W 021° 52.126 !!!
--->Bearing (Q3 - Q2) * Q1 + Q7/3 – Q6 degrees
--->Distance (Q5 - Q6) * Q1 * Q4 - Q1 + Q4 meters
Update 23/07/2019 !!! The container disappeared twice the first year
.
New container (see spoilerphotos in gallery
).
Correct the calculated coordinates N-0.007 W+0.009 (15 meters from original).
Checksum answers Q1 till Q7 = 4067
Enjoy the walk and good luck
.