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New Data Sheds Light On Tourist Accidents
Most accidents in Icelandic nature happen on Esja, Langjökull, or Fimmvörðuháls, according to the new data from the Icelandic Tourist Board. The Icelandic Tourist Board has compiled incidents and accidents involving travellers and outdoor enthusiasts in Icelandic nature. The data covers 839…
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Tourists Rescued From Cabin At Fimmvörðuháls
Two tourists were rescued in Southern Iceland yesterday after one was injured while breaking into a cabin to seek shelter from inclement weather, reports Vísir. The pair had been hiking across Fimmvörðuháls, a trail which lies between two glaciers, Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull,…
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Town Guide: Mesmerising Waterfall, Local Food And Beautiful Hikes In Skógar
Situated along Route One at the foot of Skógafoss, one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Iceland, the small town of Skógar makes for a perfect pitstop on a road trip through Iceland. The inhabitants number around 30, and while the town…
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Best of South Iceland 2019: Best Hike
South Iceland contains many of the most popular sights, sites and hikes in the country. Close to Reykjavík is the Reykjanes Peninsula, with the Blue Lagoon, Keflavík Airport, and many wild spots and charming villages; over the Hellisheiði mountain pass lies the…
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Over The Misty Mountains: Hiking The Famous Fimmvörðuháls Trail
The name of the river ‘Krossá’ sounds like ‘cross,’ as in the symbol that signifies Jesus Christ and which marks countless graves within the Christian community. Appropriately, this river is the graveyard of cars in the Þórsmörk region of Iceland. The cars…
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Best Of South Iceland 2018: Best Hike
Southern Iceland is home to most of the most popular tourist routes in Iceland—with good reason. The coastal Ring Road road from Reykjavík to Höfn is a trail of picturesque towns, black sand beaches, dramatic mountains, powerful waterfalls, basalt cliffs, towering glaciers…
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Things To Do Outside Of Reykjavík: A Highland Trail, Epic Hike & Westfjords Town
The Highlands are open for the summer once again, so if you want to get away from it all in the wilds of Iceland, here are a couple of ways to do so. Also, you could just go to Ísafjörður. Road Trip:…
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Aurora, Waterfalls, Eruptions… Heild Has Everything
Out now on DVD and on-demand, Heild offers some amazing visions of Iceland unlike most of what you’ve seen before, all set to a fairly stunning soundtrack. The film was shot over a grueling thirty month period by filmmaker Pétur Kristján Guðmundsson, who set…
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Hiking Fimmvörðuháls, South Iceland’s Greatest Hiking Trail
Fimmvörðuháls is an old hiking trail in Southern Iceland that’s flanked by two glaciers, Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. The name means “five cairns pass,” and whilst the original cairns are no longer used, it’s a well-marked path popular with natives and visitors alike.…
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Eruption Could Go On For Months
Following yesterday’s slightly surprising eruption development, more detailed news have begun to trickle in. I bring you as much as I know, straight from the very knowledgeable and probably very tired scientists who are working on this right now. And I apologise…
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Tourist Industry Profits from Volcano
It is reported that the tourist industry in Iceland is raking in tens of millions of crowns every day from the volcano at Fimmvörðuháls. RÚV reports that Torfi G. Yngvason, the director of Arctic Adventures, likens the volcano to a gold mine.…
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Breaking Volcano News!
Oh yes, I bring you something new. Within the last hour or so (around 18:00-19:00), a big burst of earthquakes (not necessarily large-magnitude ones, but a lot of them) has occurred in a very tight cluster, focussed somewhere between the Eyjafjallajökull caldera…
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Grapevine Takes A Hike – New Videos
The Grapevine’s loving patriarch Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson took a drive and a small hike last night to check out our favourite event of 2010 thus far – the Eyjafjallajökull/Fimmvörðuháls eruption. He brought along his camera and shot the below videos, which are…