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Tourist attractions in Iceland near Reykjavik

Soren Breiting — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:17:31 +0000

Most tourists will think of nature and the Icelandic landscape as the main attractions for visiting tourists in Iceland. And it is true that the wild landscape with glaciers, geysers, vulcans, mountains, lakes, the ruff coastline and islands etc. are really attractive to experience, not to mention the birdlife and life in the ocean around Iceland.

But the history of Iceland and Icelanders is as fascinating and unique as anything else. Did you know that Iceland hosted the first parliament of the world, Althing, that was established in year 930 in a beautiful area not far from the modern capital of Iceland Reykjavik with the name Þingvellir and now saved for the future as Þingvellir National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Remark the special Icelandic letter Þ, expressed ‘th’. Icelandic language is a very original version of the Nordic language family that has been preserved on Iceland as a rather isolated island far out in the Atlantic Ocean. The Althing was an annual functioning judiciary and legislative parliament, founded as the political hub of the Icelandic Commonwealth.

During our short travel to Iceland in April my wife and I visited the Þingvellir National Park in a hired car. The Þingvellir National Parkthat has many interesting attractions for the tourist. Besides the historical sites nature is showing some impressive signs of the moving geology as Iceland is situated on the moveable zone between the two huge continental tectonic plates of the North Atlantic Ocean. See the location of the Þingvellir National Park at the map below:

List of travel guide books for Iceland – Island added to Island Vacation Tips

Soren Breiting — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:32:55 +0000

A very long list of Iceland travel guides and other books about Iceland has just been added to our pages of Island Vacation tips, check for yourself before planning your next travel to the oustanding North Atlantic island of Iceland CLICK HERE.

More information about Iceland – a cheap travel destination at the moment because of the drop of the icelandic economy linked to the international recession in the economy.

Island Vacations.com new Island Vacation Site

Soren Breiting — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:20:09 +0000

A New site Island Vacations.com, see in a new window IslandVacations.com , offers information on island vacations to Caribbean Islands, Cayman Islands, Greece Islands, and add more island vacations offers in other categories, e.g. Fiji Island Vacations . The site makes use of beautiful pictures from the island locations and spice it up with articles like:

World’s Most Dangerous Vacations with the introductory text: Are you an adrenaline junkie? Would you like to spend your upcoming vacation somewhere absolutely dangerous? Do you want your vacation souvenirs include scars, stitched wounds and a fresh pint of your blood? Well, if you are any of these, then the following list of 7 world’s most dangerous vacations may sound appealing …

Despite a wonderful picture of a white shark (I guess it is) the seven described locations for the dangerous vacations are all on the mainlands and that is a good indication for us who prefer the less dangerous vacations on beautiful islands or elsewhere like described at Island Vacation tips.

I recommend that you keep Island Vacations.com among your bookmarks for future reference.

Interactive Map of the Word: Find Island Vacation Destinations

Soren Breiting — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:05:14 +0000

Use this interactive world map to find the exact destination for your travel plans, to an island or to somewhere else. The interactive map is really impressive. You can zoom in and out and in short time you can see main roads and how the countryside is looking like. You can easily move around on the map by ‘grapping’ it with your mouse and move around. You can combine the classic map with satelite photos or see them separately.

You CLICK HERE to go to the world map. – It opens in a new window.