四川省天立集团2024-2025学年高二下学期期中联测
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The Secrets to Know before Visiting Iceland
Here are top tips for travelers to seize on Iceland’s quality of life, some taken for granted by local residents. If you are curious about them, you can click here and get the following information.
Peaceful place, top of the world
Ever since the publication of the Global Peace Index, Iceland has ranked top as the world’s safest country. Entire years have passed with zero homicides taking place and the crime rate is one of the lowest in the world, according to the think-tank Institute for Economics and Peace.
Tap water is as pure as bottled water
As always, remember to drink plenty of water. But do it straight from the tap. Iceland’s spring water is notably pure, without smell or taste. Don’t be fooled by the big stacks of bottled water at the supermarket. It’s a tourist trap and an environmental waste — essentially tap water in a plastic bottle.
Heating and electricity are cheap
Iceland can be painfully expensive-island nations with a small population tend to — but there is one thing Icelanders pay less for than other Europeans: hot water and electricity. In the capital region, every house has geothermal heating. All this abundance of hot water is the reason for the leisure of soaking in local baths known as sundlaug. The outdoor pools were originally built to teach swimming, but play a much larger cultural role in modern Iceland.
Wildlife is abundant if you know where to look
Look up. To the wild side of Iceland. Iceland is home to millions of migratory birds, gathering along the shoreline, wetlands and lakes. And what do they have to do with quality of life you ask.
Well, study suggests being in the environment of many bird species c
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