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| Royal National City Park is the worlds first national urban park |
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| The park is around 10 km ( 6 miles) long |
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| The forests can contain deer, hares, foxes and birds |
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| The park was established in 1995 |
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| There is a 36 km (22 miles) cycling route to be used |
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| Some local residents are luck enough to live here year round |
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| Culture to be found everywhere within the boundaries of the park |
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| Holy Small........maybe the residence for the Mother in Law lol |
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| One of the many museums within the park |
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| Inventive way to advertise ........i like it! |
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| Some great art showing the history of what once was |
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| Getting Lost......ah no, downtown is very small and the city itself has around 120,000 citizens |
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| Inside Hallgrimskirkja (Lutheran Church ) and its walls |
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| Thought of Ernest Hemingway and his Old Man and the Sea novel when i took this picture.....thinking of the relationship Iceland has with the ocean |
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| Business Sign and why you ask........i thought it was cool looking lol |
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| Sun Voyager was sculpted by Jon Gunnar Arnason and is a dreamboat with promises of undiscovered territory, dream of hope, progress and freedom |
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| Inside the Harpa Opera House located as you see on the water |
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| The history of Iceland began with the Vikings in the late 9th century |
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| Street Art |
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| After this picture i wondered to myself what they are feeding the animals here.......i was a vegetarian after that for the four days i visited hahahahahaha |
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| That is right........surfing in all conditions |
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| Harpa Concert Hall was completed in 2011 at a cost of 164 million Euro |
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| An old Russian Missile Carrier will be the transport of choice today to go up and over the Langjokull Glacier |
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| Still see the old army green inside the drivers quarters |
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| For those really rough days of weather but not needed today |
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| Enter if you dare lol |
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| As i looked back it reminded me of the James Bond 007 intros .......maybe there is danger ahead haha |
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| Langjokull is the second largest ice cap in Iceland |
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| Cool ice sculptures to be found inside |
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| We are about 30 meters (100 ft ) below the surface |
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| The tunnels are also used by researchers and students from the University of Iceland to measure ice movements |
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| Langjokull means long glacier |
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| The ice is up to 580m ( 1,900 ft ) thick |
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| An actual Wedding Chapel inside the glacier.......new meaning of giving your partner a piece of ice for their finger hahaha |
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| I am sure there was some machinery involved lol........as these tunnels took 15 months to build |
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| It is the Worlds longest ice tunnel |
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| On my way back down |
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| Winter conditions can happen instantly |
