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Reykjavík
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Why Go?
The world's most northerly capital combines colourful buildings, quirky, creative people,
eye-popping design, wild nightlife and a capricious soul to devastating effect.
In many ways Reykjavík is strikingly cosmopolitan for its size. After all, it's merely a
town by international standards, and yet it's loaded with excellent museums, captivating
art, rich culinary choices, and funky cafes and bars. When you slip behind the shiny
tourist-centric veneer (it
is
a great base for tours to the countryside) you'll find a place and
a populace that mix aesthetic-minded ingenuity with an almost quaint, know-your-neigh-
bours sense of community.
Add a backdrop of snow-topped mountains, churning seas and crystal-clear air, and you,
like many visitors, may fall helplessly in love, returning home already saving to come
back.
