On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, tim..... wrote:
> I want to go because I want to SEE the landscape, but only if I can do
> that from a, metaphorical, car window.
You can see plenty of landscape from a coach window if you take a tour
round national road n. 1. And sleep comfortably in nices B&B, hotels,
and school-hotels. Done it.
You could also see plenty of landscape from a 4WD-car window if you take
a tour on the paths of the interior (NOT done it. I presume that
requires sleeping in a tent).
Even with a tour around road number 1, you will want occasionally to
stop and have a short stroll (e.g. to see the puffins on the cliffs near
Vik, to see the basalt floor at Kirkjubaejarklaustur, to walk to the
nearest waterfall (Svartifoss is about 1 hour walk, and worth it, all
the other main ones are closer than that), to put your foot on a glacier
(just beside the road), to embark on the wheeled boat to see the
icebergs at Jokulsarlon, to see the geothermic fields near lake Myvatn,
to visit the occasional church or museum (like Glaumbaer) etc. etc.
BTW I believe the road on the north shore of lake Myvatn is periodically
closed to traffic to protect nesting birds (they have 2 legs, horses and
sheeps have 4).
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