Two full days on an Icelandair stopover, what to do? Sunny but cold for the first day and clouds move in for the second. Get out of town for the first day – Golden Circle and Northern Lights. Sleep late and enjoy cosmopolitan Iceland in its capital city of Reykjavík.
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Nature comes to mind when reflecting upon Iceland. Two aspects of Iceland’s natural beauty come bundled together on the Golden Circle Tour through which many tourists to the island nation gain their introductions – geysirs and waterfalls in the form of the geothermal area of Haukadaulur and the amazing waterfall, Gullfoss – Golden Waterfall.
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A recent trip to Europe ended up flying us through the far northern island country of Iceland. I had wanted to visit this country since hiking about in the tundra and mountains of Norway back in the early years of the 1980s. The vast treeless moors of the Hadangervidda and the Jotunheimen served as magnificent introductions into the immense beauty to be discovered in the subarctic. Iceland figured to take the natural beauty up a notch or two. The tundra also provided a bridge between magical nature with the political past at Þingvellir.
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