Iceland: Day 8
Northeast
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There are hundreds of volcanic cones dotting the landscape of Iceland. Most are extinct, of course — although there are eruptions every few years that remind everyone that Iceland isn’t quite docile yet. The stark and rocky sides of volcanic craters are a huge tourist attraction in Iceland — climbing to the rims of extinct […]
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Akureyri and sick
Read MoreReindeer
There are wild reindeer in the eastern fjords (although I missed my one chance to take a picture of the ‘caribou next 2 miles’ sign). This prompted a conversation in the car about the differences between caribou and reindeer (a difference in semantics really only used by North Americans, I discovered — apparently everyone else […]
Read MorePenitential Food
Every country has some food, some ‘national dish’ that defies all good taste. Haggis, balut, lutefisk, casu marzu…it’s a point of pride to eat it, and great fun dare to visiting tourists to try
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North coast to Akureyri
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Western fjords and north
Read MoreBerserkjahraun
The “Beserker’s Lava field” is vast and surprising and weirder than most lava fields — varying from soft moss-covered rocks to sharp jagged pillars of lava.
Read MoreArnarstapi
Clifftop paths to view stunning sea caves and rock formations on the southern coast of the Snaefellsnes peninsula.
Read MoreGerðuberg
One of the oddest features of a volcanic landscape are stretches of weird hexagonal blocks of basalt, fractured lava beds that look like bundles of straws, or floor tiles.
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