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About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.
For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.
About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.
Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.
The inhabitants in Húsavík in northeast Iceland celebrated the fact that the third and final phase of the feasibility study of the aluminum smelter plans at Bakki, near the town, are about to begin.
“I cooked Bergur’s favorite meal, a steak with rhubarb jam,” Bryndís Sigurdardóttir, wife of Bergur Elías Ágústsson, head of the local authority, told Fréttabladid.
Ágústsson said once the third stage of the feasibility study was entered, a final decision on whether a smelter would be constructed in the area would be made.
The second phase of the feasibility study was finished yesterday. The study is conducted by the national power company Landsvirkjun and Landsnet, which has a monopoly on the transmission of electricity in Iceland.
The three planning stages were agreed upon by the local authority, Alcoa and Iceland’s Ministry of Industry with an agreement signed May 16 last year.
Source: Iceland Review (www.icelandreview.com).