Gallery: Iceland Is Beautiful Except for the 2 Million Tourists
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The Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon lies on Iceland’s southern coast. It’s more than 800 feet deep and filled with chunks of ice that break off the nearby Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier.
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Many tourists attractions, like this one in Stokksnes, sit on private property, and it is up to the owners to care for them.
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A tourist floats in the Blue Lagoon, which sits in a lava field in Grindavik. It’s a manmade lagoon, built in 1976 and fed by water from a geothermal power plant. People flock to the lagoon to bathe in the silica mud.
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Construction at Skogafoss waterfall.
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Tourists fill a cafe at the Blue Lagoon.
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This US Navy plane crashed in Solheimasandur in 1973. Over the years, the site has become a stop for tourists.
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A tourist at Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier. Due to melting, the caves change from one year to the next, sometimes leading to discrepancies between image advertisements and reality.
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A sign warns visitors to keep out.
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This sculpture, Sun Voyager, by Jón Gunnar Árnason, sits by a road in Reykjavik.
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A geyser shoots into the air at a geothermal field in Geysir, Iceland.
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Construction facade in Reykjavík.
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Tourists stride across the Svínafellsjökull Glacier in Skaftafell National Park.
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