Golden Circle Tour

Reykjavik translated means smoke bay (Rauchbucht).

The most dangerous animal in Iceland is a sheep (no more dangerous animal living in Iceland). No moscitos living there either.

One of the only animals Iceland originally had is the arctic fox. Sheeps have been imported for feeding purposes. Their number is restricted by the government as a uncontrolled population would destroy the landscape.

Only 1.7% forest in this country at this point. Work has been done to increase that percentage. Before humans developed this Irland it was covered with about 30% of forest. Icelandic joke: what do u do if u get lost in the forest? U stand up lol
Reason for that is because Iceland tries to increase their tree population again (it was ones down to 1%) so a lot of trees are still very small.

Average temperature in the winter is 9 degrees celcius, in the summer is 11 degrees celcius. They consider 15°C to be a hot summer.

Iceland has over 350.000 citizen. Their criminal rate, however, is very low. They only have about 140 ppl in prison where half of them are foreigners.Baca lagi