|
Our first stop is Thingvellir, which is the site of the original Icelandic Viking parliament from, oooh, ages ago. Now it’s a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's also apparently the only place above sea level that you can see the meeting point (or, more accurately, parting point) of the North American and European continental plates. The rocks on the left of the path are part of the North American plate and the rocks on the right of the path are part of the European plate. To my mind, this makes the actual path itself really quite a dangerous place indeed to loiter about.
Being Iceland, there are probably hardly any people here most of the time. However, there are so many people in this photo because Thingvellir was the first stop for all of the tours leaving Arcadia, so a few hundred people all turned up at more or less the same time.
|
