Well, this post is extremely late but I thought I would share some photos of a trip I took to Iceland with my Lund friends Lisa, Natalja and Martina. We went at the start of June when it was light pretty much 24h a day which was quite strange. As I am writing this post almost 7 months later I will mostly leave it to the pictures to describe Iceland. It was very different to anywhere I have ever been and definitely had a hardy, Nordic, fisherman feel to it - combined with the luna-esque landscape, black sandy beaches and geothermal springs you could almost believe you were on a different planet!
Our first stop was Þingvellir national park - part of Iceland's famous Golden Circle. It is the site of a rift valley that marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Range. It is also home to Pingvallatan , the largest natural lake in Iceland. Þingvellir became a national park in 1928 due to its historical importance as the site of the first Parliament, as well as the special tectonic and volcanic environment as a rift valley. The continental drift between the North American and Eurasian Plates can be clearly seen in the cracks or faults which traverse the region, the largest one, Almannagjá, being practically a canyon. This also causes the often-measurable earthquakes in the area.
Next we headed over to Geyser - the geothermal fields where steam and boiling hot water rises eerily out of the ground. Iceland has high rates of volcanic activity, geysers and hot springs are located all over the island. The geyser erupts every 5-10 mins and it is pretty impressive to see!
The final stop in the Golden Circle is Gullfoss - a huge three tier waterfall. The water falls 32 meters in two stages through the canyon and on sunny days has an almost permanent rainbow above it due to all the spray. The pictures don't capture just how powerful it was!
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