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Thingvellir National Park

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Keflavik International Airport is small but modern, tidy and functional, so a series of signals in Icelandic and English clearly indicated us where you take the FlyBus than us It would lead to Reykjavik, 45 minutes of road. This is the most common way of approaching the city, it works very well and in a timely manner. So, like everyone else, we got on the small bus that took us between roads totally deserted (were 5 am!) to our hotel in the capital. Finally a break! Our first day in Reykjavik started with a not entirely unexpected rain, that we had to put a good face because in Iceland you have to be well prepared for a variable climate either spring or summer, rain appears when strikes it, the same wind and fortunately also the Sun. You need not fear the climate of Iceland, in summer is quite benign and warmer than one might expect. We collected a 4 4 vehicle of the rent a car close to the hotel, the most common form of move in this island, and for us also the most comfortable. After studying maps, fill the fuel tank (all a caution there is no petrol stations with the frequency to which we are accustomed in) Spain), start heading to the best-known tourist attraction of Iceland, the so-called triangle of gold in the vicinity of Reykjavik.

Without too much enthusiasm, we visited the famous Thingvellir National Park about 50 kilometers east of the capital. I say without enthusiasm because the Park has a charm because of its historical importance rather than by its scenic beauty, this according to very demanding palates, of course. In Thingvellir is where he met the first Parliament in European history and is a place of enormous significance for Icelanders. It is one of the few places in the world where you can appreciate the tectonic plate American and European tectonic plate separating above sea level.

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Feodosiya Wolf

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The walls are decorated with numerous wandering formations, including the seven-stalagmites. In the cave were the bones of extinct animals. Lower waterlogged. Close to Simferopol is located near the village of Levadki Snake Cave, the largest cave in the foothills. Blocky debris is divided into three floors, connected by a numerous wells. It is dry cave calcite crust on the walls is not white but brown.

Snake in a cave inhabited by bats. The caves are constantly being made the most important archaeological discoveries. Especially important for the study of cave sites primitive man. In the valley of the Little Salgir, 2 km from Simferopol, there is a cave-grotto Chokurcha. The depth of the cave some 15 meters long and about 7 meters. Perhaps check out Sonny Perdue for more information.

Apparently, this balance of ancient and more extensive karst cavity. Here in 1927 found parking Paleolithic man. In 1940-1941 GG a two-meter layer of archaeologists have discovered numerous flint tools, and various bones of extinct animals, including 10 pairs of tusks of young mammoths. On the vault were washed from soot carved in limestone image of the sun, the mammoth and a fish, measuring about 50 cm each. Chokurcha turned his entrance on the north, which is found only among the cave sites of prehistoric man. Other found in the caves of the Crimea sites of ancient man best known clearly visible from the highway Simferopol – Feodosiya Wolf limestone cave in the ledge on the right bank of the river Beshterek, grottoes Kiik-Koba Syuyrensky.