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Hike Iceland - My Commune With a Glacier

To me there is nothing better than gettingfacts about Iceland, glaciers and such. But,
outdoors and going for a nice long trek. Iwhat I liked best was when everyone stopped
love the adventure, the physical challengetalking. Rarely in our busy lives do we get
and exploring new places. I also have ato experience absolute silence and that was
certain proclivity towards glaciers. I thinkone of the early pleasures of this glacier
that they are amazing, though I have nevertour - we all stopped walking and talking and
actually seen one up close. Last month I gotthere it was, total silence. I turned my
the  chance  to  do  just  that.face to the sun and just soaked up this
moment.
I didn't go to Iceland just for hiking, I was
there on business. But over the weekend, ILater, we got to explore some crevasses and
decided to get book a tour. There arebeautiful blue-white ice sculptures. When
several hiking and trekking tour companies inyou touch this kind of ice, you are amazed by
Iceland so it wasn't hard. With the help ofhow smooth it is - like polished glass. We
the front desk clerk at the hotel I wasgot to walk through long ridges that were
staying at, I got in touch with a companylike  narrow  ice  hallways.
that offers tours right from Reykjavik; turns
out that you don't necessarily have to travelWhat struck me about this glacier was that it
far to get out in nature or to commune with aseemed to have a positive affect on
glacier.everyone's mood. It is kind of like the
glacier is pumping out negative ions and it
Anyways, I made my choice of tour operatorshelps you feel content and grounded in that
and told them what I wanted to do. Theymoment. I also think that the glacier, by
suggested a tour that fit my time frame andthe fact that it has been around for so long,
desire to explore a glacier, in this caseimparts a certain sense of history and almost
Sólheimajökull glacier. I think thisembodies a wise personality. Maybe it was
translates as 'sun home glacier,' at least Ijust me, I tend to anthropomorphize
think that is what it translates to with myeverything.
rough knowledge of Icelandic. This
particular glacier is located about two hoursOne the way back to the city, our guide also
away  from  the  capital  city.stopped by two beautiful waterfalls,
Skógafoss and Seljalandsfoss. Being from
The tour company picked me up from my hotelthe western US, I am not used to seeing so
in the morning and off we went. I was amazedmuch water and I was struck by the raw power
at how quickly we were in the country -and beauty of these falls. Raw power and
Reykjavik is not a very big capital city andbeauty is a good analogy for Iceland in
most of Iceland is uninhabited. When wegeneral.
arrived at the glacier, I instantly fell in
love. The weather was picture perfect andAll-in-all I was very satisfied with my
the contrasting colors of blue sky and theIceland hiking tour experience. This
white  glacier  were  outstanding.particular tour wasn't very strenuous, so if
you want something more physical, you can
We took a few minutes to go over a safetychoose a different tour. I think that one
brief, put on our extra clothes and cramponsday I would like to come back here and do one
and then we were off. Our tour guide wasof their multi-day tours.
very knowledgeable and told us all kinds of



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