JOY FEELINGS MAGAZINE December 2015 | Page 36

GREAT HOLIDAY DESTINATION THIS SEASON! Christmas is a great time of year to venture north to discover your inner child amongst natural wonders. One of the most exciting winter trips is to Iceland where you have a great chance of glimpsing the Northern Lights. There is a lot more to see in Iceland, including glaciers, hot springs and geysers, volcanic craters, lava flows and waterfalls. Plus the capital Reykyavik is charming. shaped by volcanoes, glaciers and tectonic plates slowly being pulled apart, Iceland holidays are an opportunity to see Mother Nature at her most incredible. This is a landscape like no other. In winter you’ll find thundering waterfalls snap frozen, endless snow drifts to be skidooed across and the northern lights dancing across the night sky. But holidays here don’t have to be hard work. You can sip local schnapps while sat in the bubbling waters of a geothermal pool as the wind whips snow from the tips of volcanic carters around you. During summer slip between the sheets of the earth as you snorkel in the Silfa fissure, watch whales splash through the waves in the northern fjords, or drop into the Thrihnukagigur Volcano under the glow of the midnight sun. Holidays in Iceland are as dramatic as they are different JOY FEELINGS | DECEMBER ISSUE 36