

Next stop: Iceland
#1
Posted 22 August 2012 - 07:46
The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


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#4
Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:41
I question the general assumption that i am inherently deficient in the area of grammar and sentence structure
#6
Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:53
Take some snaps.


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#8
Posted 22 August 2012 - 11:25
Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 09:53, said:
Take some snaps.

Major Fuckup, on 22 August 2012 - 10:19, said:

The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


#9
Posted 22 August 2012 - 12:26

Kyle Carter said:
#10
Posted 22 August 2012 - 12:43


#13
Posted 22 August 2012 - 13:29
Alias, on 22 August 2012 - 12:57, said:
Wizard, on 22 August 2012 - 12:44, said:

By the way Chyros, be sure to try some Hákarl. That'll prepare your gastric system for British food.


The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


#14
Posted 22 August 2012 - 16:53
#15
Posted 22 August 2012 - 17:01


F O R T H E N S

#16
Posted 22 August 2012 - 18:09
General, on 22 August 2012 - 16:53, said:

TheDR, on 22 August 2012 - 17:01, said:


The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


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#19
Posted 22 August 2012 - 20:15
Have fun

#20
Posted 26 August 2012 - 21:54
#21
Posted 02 September 2012 - 21:57
It was amazing.
Pics and a major post to come soon.
Yes, the Hekla did erup while we were in Iceland

The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


#22
Posted 03 September 2012 - 20:05
Iceland is a fantastic country to visit. I heartily recommend it to everyone. And sooner rather than later, because the tourist sector is still young, so grab it while you can. Pictures, let alone pictures taken with a cheap camera, and not touched-up, don't do the country any justice at all, but I guess I'll give it a try.
The country itself is a geologist's wet dream and a staple to visit for them. Iceland is geologically speaking relatively young, so it's still fresh, uneroded and active. The landscape is unlike anything you've ever seen. You know how people go on about New Zealand being the most beautiful country in terms of nature? That's quite debatable with Iceland around. But Iceland hands-down wins the Most Bizarre contest. There is nothing remotely like it anywhere on Earth, and everywhere you go, the landscape is totally different.
The main landscape is a hilly, basalty landscape. Think stuff like this:


Occasional features include waterfalls, such as Barnafoss, Hraunfossar, Goþafoss, Dettifoss and Gulfoss,:




Other features include
sulphurous deserts


crater lakes


solfataras

boiling mud pools

red mountains

random ore deposits

geothermally active areas

rocky wastelands

beautiful valleys

natural hot mineral springs

nature baths based in a lagoon of heavily over-saturated natural spring water

fresh lava tracks

geysers

fumaroles

sheep

explosion craters

snowy mountains

mountains seemingly made of gravel (actually cooled lava droplets)

bizarre (natural) lava formations


black beaches

Polar Beer and Helgi Sterki

rocky valleys

crystalline hills

More on culture and climate and stuff when Dauth stops annoying me to have a game

The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


#23
Posted 03 September 2012 - 21:32
That first picture, that's just silly. It looks like a bad Photoshop job where someone has stretched a hill


F O R T H E N S

#24
Posted 03 September 2012 - 22:43
TheDR, on 03 September 2012 - 21:32, said:
That first picture, that's just silly. It looks like a bad Photoshop job where someone has stretched a hill



The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm


#25
Posted 04 September 2012 - 07:42


Kyle Carter said:
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