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Giovanni Drogo writes
>On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, tim..... wrote:
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>> I want to go because I want to SEE the landscape, but only if I can
>>do that from a, metaphorical, car window.
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>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).
>
If you are with (or can find) someone else, consider renting a car:
probably not much more than the cost of tours for two; sign posting is
fine for the major sites.
Don't miss Thingvellir: for history, for geology, and for scenery.
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