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A Vacation To Remember In Iceland
s a senior executive for a Located in Northern Europe,
large multinational Iceland is actually a large
corporation, I have been mountainous island in the North
assigned to nine different Atlantic that comprises one of
countries in five different the most picturesque places you
continents over the last 20 will ever see. It is never dark
years. I have thoroughly enjoyed in Iceland and nearly the entire
meeting new people and adapting landscape is filled with
to new cultures. But perhaps my beautiful and colorful
favorite perk of the job is that wildflowers, especially around
it allows me to have my annual the hills that surround the
vacations in some of the most island's deep fjords. The view of
exotic locations on the planet. the ocean, mountains and delicate
My vacation last summer has to grassy shores is spectacular and
count as one of the most breath-taking.
surprising and most pleasant of
all. It may sound hard to The typical Iceland vacation
believe, but I really had a grand starts with a cruise from one of
time spending nearly three weeks the many ports of Europe. You
in Iceland. will sail through the country's
beautiful deep natural harbors
As the name implies, Iceland is and witness its quaint farming
constantly covered in ice as more villages perched delicately on
than 11 percent of the country is the rocky shores.
covered by ice glaciers. I know,
that doesn't sound very cozy, but Once in Iceland, you will have
Iceland's climate is surprisingly every opportunity to try their
mild and filled with countless natural hot springs, which are
geothermal hot spots. known all over the world and are
universally recognized as sort of
a native national pastime. Like natural hot springs.
bears in hibernation, Icelanders
enjoy spending most of the winter Traveling by car around the
and much of the summer months countryside is a novel experience
blissfully soaking in these as well since there is only a
springs to pass the long months single road that traverses the
of night away in relative whole rim of the island and
comfort. It seems like the entire affords a majestic view of
island is filled with these island's barren and icy interior.
About the Author:
Jonathon Hardcastle writes articles on many topics including Travel, Outdoors, and Recreation
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