Grindavik

Southwestern Iceland is made up of peninsulas of volcanic rubble and hills steaming and bubbling with geothermal energy, hotsprings and geysers. The land is beautiful and stark, cold black rock covered in bright green moss, dotted with bright blue lagoons of hot, sulphuric, silica-filled water.

Rekjavik

In the center of the old town of Rekjavik stands a large modernist church, the style of which seems quite representative of the Icelandic aesthetic.

Suderland

I spent a day lost in this area south of the lake, in the mountains where there was a giant geothermal plant. The earth was literally smoking, and the mountains were warm to touch. East of the plant, beneath the mountains was farmland, filled with sheep and horses and beautiful fields of flowers.