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Editorial: 100+ Places Of Solitude
Icelandic weekly Heimildin used the phrase “tourism fatigue” in a recent article focusing on the small town of Vík, where fewer than 700 inhabitants receive more than 5,000 tourists each day during summer, overloading the town’s sewer system, buying up all the…
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The Laugavegur Trail Diaries: A Tale Of Snow, Steam And Sunburns
Stretching 54 km between the geothermal hot pools of Landmannalaugar and the luscious Þórsmörk valley, the Laugavegur trail is something of a rite of passage for Icelanders. Complete it and you enter an elite class of hikers—at least that’s what we told…