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The Golden Circle
July 11, 2005




On Monday,we got real lucky: Our beloved wedding couple organized a bus tour for all the far-away guests.




boarded
[Audrey, Eugene, Javier]




Our tour guide is....Hallgrķmur!




heading up the narrow mountain roads




Truly exotic...but yet wild, unfriendly.









on the top of a little hill




windy, chilly, a light drizzle




Inga, me




back down the hill...offroad




Konstantijn, Erik




Konstantijn, Eithne




a peek inside a geothermal power plant




[Photo by Eugene]




Located right on the crack between the Atlantic and the North American tectonic plates, Iceland is self-sufficient in environmental friendly power.




Konstantijn and Madeleine by lake Žingvallavatn




overlooking the plains at Žingvellir




Žingvellir - the birthplace of democracy, around 930 A.D.






















































Konstantijn, Erik, Madelene














Make a wish




the tour continues, more back roads




lunch stop by Gullfoss




Gullfoss (Golden Rapids) is Iceland's grandest waterfall


massive in size and water mass (movie file)




(click to view panorama)





downstream



















waiting by the side of Geysir, that doesn't erupt anymore




Imola enjoying the hot steam on a chilly day




Two holes: one blue, one clear.




Deep blue. And hot.


boiling hole in the ground (movie file)




Lined up around another geyser, that erupts every 5 minutes..or so.


an erupting geysir (500kB movie file)




Every 5 minutes. Every day. Every night. Every year.
That's a lot of hot water.




another boil hole (movie file)




in fact, this whole place is cookin'









Eithne and the dreaded Viking Troll






a glimpse of the crater Keriš (click to view)




Here we go again...




...and again...




a quiet moment




Entering the Garden of Eden






-Greetings, strangers.




Yep, they even grow bananas on Iceland.

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