i went to iceland , here are some pictures

Greenland isn't made of green either.

Classic Viking prank STILL getting neighbors over 1000 years later

The story goes that Iceland is called Iceland because in the 10th century, the Norwegian King Flóki Vilgerðardon came to Iceland , xe ventured into the local mountains and saw the vast amount of ice fjords, which is why xe went on to call it ice land. Although it is not a incontrovertible, testable, and repeatable proof because most likely they colonizers settled in the east and had to transverse one of the biggest glaciers in iceland (and in the whole world), called the Vatnajökull, and after their expedition trough it they probably got inspired from the terrain and decided to name it Iceland

About Greenland, it is said that when Erik the Red came to island in the 10th century, it was not as covered in ice as it is now (in the 14th century there was a drop in temperature that made the weather colder), so when he saw the greenery sceneries, he decided he would call it Greenland

It is worth noting that many of these stories are not 100 percent fact checked and there are plenty more that range from esoteric to possible so :8

unfortunately rocks were the best thing they had although i hate to be negative about such a good looking island, everything humanity has built inside of that island is utterly underwhelming

didn't go

The Blue Lagoon, although one of the most visited thermal waters of Iceland , is rather somewhat expensive considering there are cheaper and better alternatives in Reykjavík and Kópavogur

Xe's right you know . One of the biggest Iceland shills in the world, Jewell Chambers, is not Icelandic but a ebony cupcake BIPOCette from Brooklyn, New York, who was enthralled with the idea of visiting and living in Iceland after xe met an icelandic man who came to New York, and she foresaw living in Iceland as the biggest chance in the world (probably because she was tired of hustling 'n bustling in the Bronx)

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i didn't choose the venue too expensive for my taste but my dad loves to hike and wanted to see the waterfalls

naturally literally everything in the country is built to suck as much money from tourists as possible unfortunately i don't enjoy sightseeing much unless it's somewhere remote with no people. i was lukewarm on the idea of overseas travel and after my first experience i can say i probably won't bother again

Ring road. Diamond beach on the south, Dimmuborgir in the north, Thingvallir and Blue Lagoon in the west. Connect the dots with trails and waterfalls. Ignore Reykjavic.

i hiked from skogafoss to bosar and that was probably the best hike i've been on in my life. pictures 4-9 are all from that same hike. however the conditions to cross are dependent upon season and i'm not sure it's favorable outside of summer. if you go to Landmannalaugar try to camp in Landmannahellir because IIRC you have to pay extra for parking in Landmannalaugar but Landmannahellir has hikes accessible from the campground. don't go to the Husafell campground if you want to hike, the hikes there are garbage. i didn't do anything much other than hike so i can't speak for anything else

there were about 10 people crowding around this one puffin that was apparently very proud to be photographed by all the sightseers since everyone else was already doing it i didn't really care to take a photo

lots of small flies. where there are people, there are flies so the best places to go were where there had been no tourists

one night i had to eat my dinner in my bivy sack because there were too many flies outside

it's true snappy, he could have copied these from the internet somewhere, we need a photo of OP in the context for proof

>It looks like NZ mixed with Canada

Nah, it has a unique vibe that's different than either.