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Pingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss

April 2nd 2010
On the road, we saw that the national flag of Iceland was hanging half mast. So we asked our local guide Haukur for the reason. "Today somebody important died", he said. We all thought it had to be an Icelandic Viking or politician or something like that. But no, we haven't thought about the fact that it was Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ died... First we visited Pingvellir, Iceland most ... read more
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Icelandic Flag Settled by Norwegian and Celtic (Scottish and Irish) immigrants during the late 9th and 10th centuries A.D., Iceland boasts the world's oldest functioning legislative assembly, the Althing, established in 930. Independent for over 300 years, Iceland ... ... read more
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