Destination: Iceland

Fjallabyggð

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By rijn | Views [211] | Scholarship Entry

It wasn’t just that it was cold. I knew enough to expect that, given the name. But this was a bone jarring, lung aching kind of cold, my fingers so frozen I fumbled when I tried to take a photo. And up there amongst the staggering beauty of far northern ... Read more >

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Do You Believe in Magic?

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By laurakincaid | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry

I love Iceland; its soft palette of whites, starkly beautiful against dark strokes of rock. I love the vastness, the wildness, the warmness of its people. Most of all I love the way it breathes ice and fire one moment, and dances light across the sky ... Read more >

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Getting There, Being There

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By unplainjane | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry

There’s a moment during vacation when you become a part of your surroundings rather than a foreign object to them. Sometimes it happens immediately, when you exit an unfamiliar airport to the dazzling spectacle of something totally new. Other times it ... Read more >

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'Green Lagoon', Myvatn

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By lucygiuliano | Views [2912] | Scholarship Entry

Last summer I found myself with a month to spare and a sudden desire to go to Iceland. A few weeks later, I was there. Given the location and duration of my trip, I decided that logistically and economically the best way to go would be with a volunteering ... Read more >

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Church, slaughterhouse, boy scout hut, volcano

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By jsuppleturnham | Views [211] | Scholarship Entry

On our fourth day staying in the sleepy (although bustling by Icelandic standards) port town of Hafnarfjördur, Claire and I decide to visit Reykjavik’s open-air folk museum – a plan we finalise while waiting for our unfriendly, teenage, and seemingly ... Read more >

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Icelandic Magic

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By kellybee | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry

Standing on the lava fields I breathe in, filling my lungs with cold, fresh air as I gaze at the stark, flat panorama; a bleak yet stunning foreground to the spectacular, white mountains, bright against a pale winter sky. The wind whips at my hair as ... Read more >

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Aurora Borealis

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By pree | Views [158] | Scholarship Entry

Ugh. I didn’t want to get out of bed. The night before had been a failure and our warm and cosy room in Reykjavik was, well, so warm. Whilst pulling on my insulated boots and rubbing the sleep from my eyes I thought, “If Bruce Wayne can do it, so can ... Read more >

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The West Fjords

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By jamieditaranto | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry

Driving in the West Fjord's of Iceland is not for the faint of heart or those who get dizzy in glass elevators. I anticipated the rockiness while looking over the map's crooked lines that zig-zagged around the coastline, but I didn't think about the mountains ... Read more >

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Helgafell (the wishing hike)

Thu, 21 May 2015 | By cwrite | Views [329] | Scholarship Entry

Rule #1: no talking and no looking back Leaving Reykjavik felt like the official start of our adventure. We had had several days in the capital to explore bookshops and pubs and ponds dotted with hungry ducks. But had we really seen Iceland yet? The ... Read more >

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A Year in Iceland

Thu, 21 May 2015 | By eliwhitmanjourney | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry

In 2014, I was living and traveling across Iceland, such a touching experience that is inside of my heart as a beautiful treasure (actually, I´m trying to publish a compilation of anecdotes and pictures in a volume called Hverfisgata 49). Beyond that ... Read more >

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Six Days of Dirt

Mon, 11 May 2015 | By michaelmackenzie | Views [378] | Scholarship Entry

We drove nine-hundred kilometers along the highway, only to find what we needed three miles down a gravel road. Hringvegur, Iceland's ringroad, is notorious for its diverse scenery: waterfalls throwing rainbows into sparkling air, glaciers melting slowly ... Read more >

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Iceland: The Most Illuminating NYE You'll Have

Thu, 7 May 2015 | By michelletim | Views [242] | Scholarship Entry

Most 'Best New Year's Eve Destinations' lists fail to mention one little place called Reykjavik, Iceland. And not because it's not great, but because many won't give it the opportunity it needs to show its greatness during any of the winter months because ... Read more >

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The Vatnajokull glacier caves

Wed, 6 May 2015 | By mattwalsh93 | Views [253] | Scholarship Entry

It really could have been Superman's Fortress of Solitude or even the wampa's cave on the ice planet Hoth, but I’d already here, not to let your surroundings fool you - this was Earth. An untouched, rugged part of Earth, but Earth nonetheless. Iceland ... Read more >

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Photos: Me

Tue, 5 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Photo Gallery

Skógafoss

Mon, 4 May 2015 | By hgame8 | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry

We'd been driving all day with our friend-turned -tour guide. The trip had been rough, for some reason she wouldn't let us put our windows down or stop for food, so set was she on showing us everything she could. The never ending summer was upon us, ... Read more >

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