Car Rental Iceland

Iceland is the largest volcanic island in the world. With 27 active volcanoes, it is located south of the Northern Arctic circle in the North Atlantic. Two of the most important are the Hekla and the Krafla, which break out approximately every ten years. Eleven percent of the country are covered with glaciers of Vatnajökull has the largest volume of ice in Europe. In the capital, Reykjavík, about a third of all Icelanders live with about 115,000 inhabitants. Reykjavik means' smoking Bay' and the name is probably on the adjacent hot springs back to lead, sometimes giving the city' steamy' Give context.

The numerous waterfalls of Islands provide a natural spectacle of very special kind. It is an absolutely unforgettable experience, to learn the Herunterstürzen of the huge water up close. The most impressive are the cases of Dettifoss, Selfoss and Goðafoss. Inconceivably, what quantities of energy are set here freely. Dettifoss is the most powerful massive waterfall in Europe. Almost mystically appears to the rest of Iceland, which you explore with a rental car. Alien Kraterlandschaften and steaming streams lined up on hissing geysers, found for example in the geo-thermal region near Hankadalur. On the coast dominate Rocky fjords from a deep blue sea.

In the South of Iceland, near the Reykjanes peninsula, there is a witness of the ancient culture of the island, from the time of the Vikings. Here lies the legendary Pingvellir. This place, or even the Althing, was already in the year 930 ad, as a traditional meeting place of the warlike sea-faring people and is one of the world heritage site.