Échappées belles S03E04 Islande
A nice excursion of Sophie Jovillard from Reykjavik ( the buying of smoked fish, smoked mutton and cod caviar in a supermarket, the meeting with her guide Kata Karadomir, the walk through the streets of Reykjavik-the talk of the high cost of living in Iceland-, the ambiance of a village, the nice panorama of the mountains and the sea) to the Vatnakökull glacier and the Jökulsárlón lake ( the snow scooter tour on the the glacier-the largest glacier of Iceland and the second largest glacier of Europe-, the story of the last volcanic eruption of 1996 and the navigation on the Jökulsárlón lake in the glacial lake) passing by the "Blue Lagoon" ( the hot spring and the swimming in the waters with 30-35 degrees, the hot water good for the skin), by Geysir ( the looking at the geyser,) by Thingvellir ( the visit of the site with the archaeologist Adolf Fridrikson-Iceland is a young country born only 40 millions of years ago, the boundary between the North American and the Eurasian tectonic plates, the active volcanoes and the frequent earthquakes-, the place of the Althing parliament in 930), by Skógar (the beautiful waterfall, the curator of the Skógar Museum Mr.Tommason playing an old Icelandic hymn, the visit of the Icelandic houses- the stone house with driftwood and a roof of moss and bog, then the wooden house built in 1919 made with the wood of French wrecked ship)and by Landmannalaugar ( the fishing and the bivouac at the a lake, the meeting with the horse breeder Hanna Charge-the description of the Icelandic horse-, the horseback riding in the landscape, the good connection between the Icelandic horses and the Icelandic people). Besides we see zooms about the summer night at Reykjakik, about the hot springs of Iceland, about the Westman Islands, about the artist Haukur Halldorsson and about the Icelandic horses.
