Category Archives: eastern iceland
Driving around Iceland’s famous Ring Road might be like flicking through the pages of a geography book, but it’s not all wild and remote — along the way you’ll have to pass through a handful of towns. We’ll just call them “cities” for fun, ok?
Reykjavík, City of Fear
Population 190,000
Your starting point, and the only real […]
At Kárahnjúkar they give a dam.
According to some tree-hugging hippies, the twin mountains of Kárahnjúkar in the north-east of Iceland are some of the most beautiful examples of the Icelandic Highlands.
However, according to some cold-blooded technocrats, they are also the best place for an absolutely massive dam project.
The technocrats are winning. The dam project […]
