The Svinafellsjökull glacier
Svínafellsjökull Glacier Tongue
Homely furniture inside the farm house
Svartifoss (The Black Waterfall)
Reykjavik skyline under heavy weather
Beside the highway no. 1
The right off-road vehicle for Iceland tours
Climbing on the lava hills
Going close to the Hekla volcano
Jökulsárlón
Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon
Heavy weather clouds came on the way back
The highway no. 1 passing the Hoffellsjökull glaci…
Padi field along the highway No. 2
Bao An Pagoda temple at Fansipan bottom station
Outrigger boats at the Sanur beach
Sunset at Pererenan beach
Paddyfield by Perean Tengha
Return to the Trunyan village
An Ogoh Ogoh and the porters
Pura Tanah Lot
Boy exiting the temple celebration
Balinese sweetheart wrapping sweeties
Vatnajökull Icecap
Inside the Skálholt church
A crater lake in southern Iceland
Next village near Skógar
Skogafoss
Art sculptures on the Reykjavik hill
Beautiful waterfall along the highway
Great Ocean Road look to the landside
In St Davids Park in Hobart
Marina in Hobart
Landscape in eastern Tasmania
Convict-built church at Port Arthur
The stacks of the Twelve Apostles
Entrance into the Hiranya Varna Mahaa Vihar Temple…
Bizarre landscape in the Tramar area
Panorama to the Himalaya peaks
Golden Gate in Bhaktapur
Chili garlands decorate their windows
Saddhu boy gets posted for photo shoots
The top of the Stupa from Swayambhunath
Balinese-Australian dancing girl
Other beautiful natural scenery by the riverside
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Sleeping Hekla volcano
Hekla is a stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland close to the village Hella with a height of 1.488 metres. Hekla is Iceland's most active volcano; over 20 eruptions have occurred in and around the volcano since 874. During the Middle Ages, Icelanders called the volcano the "Gateway to Hell."
Hekla is part of a volcanic ridge, 40 kilometres long. However, the most active part of this ridge, a fissure about 5.5 km long named Heklugjá, is considered to be the volcano Hekla proper. Hekla looks rather like an overturned boat, with its keel being in fact a series of craters, two of which are generally the most active.
The volcano's frequent large eruptions have covered much of Iceland with tephra and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanos. 10% of the tephra produced in Iceland in the last thousand years has come from Hekla, amounting to 5 qkm. The volcano has produced one of the largest volumes of lava of any in the world in the last millennium, around 8 qkm.
Hekla is part of a volcanic ridge, 40 kilometres long. However, the most active part of this ridge, a fissure about 5.5 km long named Heklugjá, is considered to be the volcano Hekla proper. Hekla looks rather like an overturned boat, with its keel being in fact a series of craters, two of which are generally the most active.
The volcano's frequent large eruptions have covered much of Iceland with tephra and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanos. 10% of the tephra produced in Iceland in the last thousand years has come from Hekla, amounting to 5 qkm. The volcano has produced one of the largest volumes of lava of any in the world in the last millennium, around 8 qkm.
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