Google Sightseeing » Iceland http://googlesightseeing.com Why bother seeing the world for real? Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Icelandic Ice http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/10/28/glacier-and-lava-rock-in-iceland/ http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/10/28/glacier-and-lava-rock-in-iceland/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:35:22 +0000 Alex Turnbull http://www.googlesightseeing.com/?p=320 Astonishing picture here of what looks like a massive glacial flow at the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. Low reolution I’m afraid, but scroll around the rest of Iceland and you’ll see loads more stunning natural imagery.

Glacier Flow

Thanks to Rachel and Lauri Kangas.

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The opaque water contains silicon which is apparently good for the skin and the water is very warm, even during winter. There’s a little wall here stopping you from going any further out as people have been burned, just going near the wall was quite sore! It’s a surprisingly romantic experience, so much so that I proposed to my fiancée while we were swimming around :D

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