REYKJAVIK, ICELAND: A LOT OF LANDSCAPES IN ONE LOCATION FROM SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS TO ROLLING HILLS TO A LAVA AREA THAT RESEMBLES A BARREN DESERT

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 3, 2000| Author: Edward R. Leach, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

When God dealt the landscape cards, Iceland got one of each. If you want crashing seas, the North Atlantic is right there. If you want to see something that looks exactly like the Badlands, you will. Another view looks like the Alps. And still another conjures up images of a barren, west Texas landscape. But the most remarkable part of these vistas is that we saw all of them from one location.

Iceland probably ranks as the most flown over island in the world. We had looked down from nu...

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