Jökulsárlón
Reynisdrangar
Reynisfjara beach by the coastal village Vík
Homely furniture inside the farm house
Reykjavik view from the hill
Landscape beside the highway no. 1
Climbing on the lava hills
sleeping Geysir
The right off-road vehicle for Iceland tours
Iceland Reykjavik City center
Heavy weather clouds came on the way back
Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon
Jökulsárlón
The harbour in Höfn
Svinafellsjökull glacier
Liebe Grüße aus Bangkok
Warm greetings from Bangkok
Sunset at Pererenan beach
Pura Tanah Lot
The big Ovoo at the extinct volcano
Warm greetings from Bangkok
A crater lake in southern Iceland
Inside the Skálholt church
Gullfoss, the golden waterfall in southern Iceland
Höfn
Heinabergsjökull glacier
Geysir eruption
Glacial branch of the Glacier Vatnajokull
Skógar and the Eyjafjallajökull volcano
Gigantic Balinese banyan tree
Young ladies at the roadside
Bali cuisine Babi Guling
Looking out the balcony
Mayor's office of Ulaanbaatar city
School pupils cross the Chao Phraya
Residence of HRH Princess Ubol Ratana at the other…
Thai Sala in the Suan Chalerm Kanchanapisek
The Wihan at Sa-Moeng วิหารเมืองสะเมิง
Nomads kiddies at her block hut home
Track to the Oglogchiin Herem wall
Local residents beside Khlong Prawet
Wat Pluk Sattha on the end of Khlong Sam
Water hyacinths on Klong Sam
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VOLCANES,CERROS Y SALTOS DE AGUA (CASCADAS) DEL MUNDO -VULKANE,BERGE UND WASSERFÄLLE WELTWEIT
VOLCANES,CERROS Y SALTOS DE AGUA (CASCADAS) DEL MUNDO -VULKANE,BERGE UND WASSERFÄLLE WELTWEIT
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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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