06 October 2011

Why Travel to Iceland?

Lori Rackl, staff reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, suggests an answer after spending 8-days traveling through Iceland last summer.

Here’s an excerpt from her article in the Sun-Times Travel section:

"With a population of 320,000 on an island the size of Kentucky, Iceland is the least densely populated country in Europe.

That fact wasn’t lost on Paul Clear, an Oklahoma man who was on the Country Walkers trip with his wife. After we all said our good-byes and flew home, Clear wrote an e-mail to the group. In it, he recalled standing on a hill during one of our hikes and not seeing “a single road, car, sign, village, house, structure, airplane or person.”

Clear, a seasoned traveler, said Iceland was different than any country he’d ever been to.

“It was unlike my expectations, even after reading about it for years and seeing pictures,” he wrote. “It’s great when a place can surprise me like that.”

That’s why you go to Iceland."

For the full article, please visit the Sun-Times Web site .