Iceland is an island nation with many volcanoes and hot springs, and the vapor from the hot springs curls up from the ground like smoke. Hence, he named his new home Reykjavik - "the smoking bay".
The city of Reykjavik has a well-proportioned layout, with longitudinal and latitudinal streets. No skyscrapers, residential housing is small and exquisite, mostly two-story buildings, different styles, giving people a sense of antiquity, neat and beautiful, peaceful and leisurely. City buildings to red and green as the main tone, bright colors, and blue sea water, silver snow-capped mountains reflect each other, constituting a magnificent picture of the charm of the people.
The climate makes it difficult for trees to survive in Reykjavik. But almost every resident has flowers and plants. While outdoors it is freezing cold and snowing, indoors flowers bloom and spring is in full bloom. On the outskirts of the city, there are hot springs that serve as a supply base for fresh fruits and vegetables for the capital. Here, not only cucumbers and tomatoes grow, but also tropical and subtropical bananas, grapes and oranges come to settle down. More than 400 kinds of flowers are also cultivated in the warm room to meet the needs of the public to buy flowers to beautify their rooms and gifts for friends and relatives.
There are many hot spring swimming pools and public **** washing pools in the city and suburbs. Even in the freezing winter, men and women still get naked and float in the steaming pools. There is a law in Iceland that makes it compulsory for primary school children to learn how to swim. As a result, almost all Icelanders are good swimmers. Lake Tjonning in the city center is a playground for ducks and other waterfowl in the summer, and for children to skate and play on the ice in the winter.
Residents prefer to go fishing in the countryside, and when they catch a fish from a stream, they often turn around and throw it into a hot spring instead of removing it from the hook, so that a live, fresh fish is cooked in no time. It is a great pleasure to eat while fishing. I am afraid that there is not another place in the world where you can enjoy this special pleasure of fishing and wildlife.
Fishermen don't have to carry fresh water when they go to sea. They find the drinking water they need at sea, far from land. The sea there has an unusual mist of water, and from the mist you can find fountains of fresh water gushing upwards. Fishermen can draw fresh water up to their boats for use by simply using a long cylinder and attaching it to the upward surge of the spring.
Iceland is isolated from the continent and has a unique environment with no ferocious beasts. Therefore, Icelanders do not have to worry about wild animals. In the spring, the sheep to do on the mark, driven to the mountains, free to forage and reproduction, to the September days before the cold and snow, people rode on horseback to the mountains, according to the mark of the family's sheep together, driven home, not only none of the lost, and the flock grew a few times. Therefore, Iceland's pastoralism was quite developed in those years, and it was only later that it was replaced by fisheries, which took a back seat. Fifty kilometers east of Reykjavík is Iceland's largest lake, the Parliament Lake, with an area of 83 square kilometers. A 60-meter-high strand of waterfall flies down from a cliff in the northwest of the lake, and there are several pastoral villas along the southwest lakeshore. Parliament lake west of the plain is the parliamentary valley, belonging to the earthquake fell on the platform, the west side of a wall of 7 kilometers long, 30 meters high cliffs, under the wall is a "square", the center is a small hillock, erected a flagpole. This is the ancient Icelandic "Parliament Hall". At that time, the Parliament was held here for two weeks every year. The Speaker of the Parliament stood on a "stone altar of law" at the top of the hill and gave speeches, while the members of the Parliament sat on the hill and listened to the speeches and deliberations, and the citizens gathered around the hill to listen to the deliberations of the Speaker and the members of the Parliament. In 1944, more than 40,000 Icelanders gathered here to celebrate their country's independence. In 1944, more than 40,000 Icelanders gathered here to celebrate their country's independence, and it was not until the parliament building was built in Reykjavík that the Valley of Conferences ceased to be used and was preserved as a historical site. To this day, Icelanders still like to come to the Valley of Conferences for celebrations and regard it as a place of good fortune.