Travel can help us ‘find ourselves,’ but no one has taken this quite so literally as a woman in Iceland who, after taking part in a major mountain search operation for a lost tourist, admitted to police that she was the missing person everyone was looking for.
The incident occurred near the Eidgja canyon in southern Iceland, a popular walking spot for tourists, where the women failed to return to her tour bus.
The tour bus driver waited an hour for the woman to return and when she failed to turn up, police were alerted and search teams were dispatched to the area shortly afterwards. They started searching for a woman described as Asian and wearing dark clothing.
The expedition was only called off at 3am after it emerged that the woman had been on the bus all along and had even participated in the search, having had no idea that she had been reported missing and had changed her clothes and ‘freshened up’.
Her fellow passengers and the driver did not recognise her as being the same woman.
She immediately told the bus driver, who informed the police.
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