Praying in the Cao Đài Holy See (church) in Tây Ni…
Fishing net at the Thu Bon River side
Stone Forest (Shilin)
The Dongba Scripture
Heilongtan Lake Park entrance
Walk along the Vatnajökull glacier
Bodnath Kathmandu Nepal is one of Tibetan souls
The summit of the Holy Kailash
The citadel in Huế
Forbidden Purple City Huế
Lime stones at the Hạ Long Bay
Rượu rắn, snake wine and its instruction
Temple at the Tự Đức Tomb
Xung Khiem Pavilion in the Tự Đức Mausoleum comple…
Chùa Cầu bridge in Hội An
View to Ben Ninh Kieu landmark at the Mekong Delta
Market-woman steering her boat on the Hậu Giang ri…
At the market in Cần Thơ
A small channel at the Mekong Delta
Cao Đài Holy Mass is every day
Boats lying at the Ca Ty riverside
Phúc Kiến Community Hall
The Golden Stupa
More ice pieces on the Jökulsárlón beach
The landscape around the Hekla volcano
Jökulsárlón
Glacial branch of the Glacier Vatnajokull
Reykjavik skyline under heavy weather
Svartifoss (The Black Waterfall)
Reynisdrangar by Vik
Very small chapel near Selfoss
Along the highway to the Geysirs
Landakotskirkja (Landakot Church)
Art sculptures on the Reykjavik hill
Tiger Jumping Gorge
Wall paintings inside the Songzanlin Monastery
Main entrance to the Songzanlin Monastery
Songzanlin Monastery
Lijiang Black Dragon Pool
Naxi performance
Lijiang tea pavillon
Cristal clear water runs down the mountain
Dongba Scripture shown how to write
Gate to the center of Xizhou
Senior Bai citizen in Xizhou
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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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