Do you need a reason to travel to some far away land for vacation? Are you researching the place before you decide if you like it enough to spend your money on a journey?
Here's a list of cool reasons why you should choose Iceland:
- the climate is cool, which is a blessing for anyone who thinks that going to Tunisia during a summer is a masochist's wet dream.
- it's banking system collapsed in 2008 and Iceland is in a severe recession since then, which did not stop them from applying for EU membership. And the country is apparently so cool, that European Union granted candidate status to Iceland by formally approving the opening of membership talks. How cool is that? I bet no other bankrupted country could achieve such a feat. Maybe they even get accepted, and in 2012, we'll have a nice "European Union on Bankrupted Countries", with Greece presidency of course.
- it's got a lot of volcanoes, and the last time one of them erupted, the result was closed airspace over whole Europe.
- it grows. From time to time, new islands pop up.
- 100% of consumed electricity is green and comes from hydro or geothermal power. In addition, nearly 90% of buildings in Iceland use geothermal power for heating and hot water.
- it's got plenty of waterfalls. If you happen to be obsessed with water falling from high places, than Iceland is probably your Eden.
- there are only around 300 000 people there, and 2/3 of them live in Reykiavik.
- most Icelanders know English, so you won't have any problems communicating with them.
- the geology of Iceland created some seriously amazing landscapes.
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