Iceland
 Very few places on earth can match the incredible raw and intense beauty of Iceland. Both fiery and icy, forbidding and inviting, it is a place of dramatic contrasts, home to huge glacial ice fields, bubbling mud pools, colossal waterfalls and steaming hot springs. Over the centuries, eruptions have spewed vast fields of lava over the island and there are thousands of daily tremors too small to be noticed. The presence of so much natural energy just below the surface makes it possible not to just see the awesome power of nature, but to feel, hear and smell it.
The limitless reserves of geothermal energy that have produced such a varied terrain also supply heat and power to the nation’s homes. And while the cold tap water is icy cold and spring fresh, the hot tap water has the distinctive smell of sulphur dioxide. This hot water piped into homes under Reykjavik pavement melts the ice and snow in winter and also fills the numerous outdoor swimming pools and hot tubs that are so important to Iceland health and social life.
Although Iceland has a long and rich cultural history, it is the land itself, sculpted by the forces of of nature into an ever-changing landscape, that tells the true story of Iceland. See our ICELAND page and photo galleries.
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