Anekke Iceland (HEIMA): Home of ice and fire

There, where day and night become one. Where my gaze and the mountains merged. Where the volcanoes are clothed in lava scars, the bays are the land of the whales and the eternal snow. There, in Iceland, the journey began within me.

A halo of cold wind touched my face when I first set foot on its soil. All the elements came into line with overwhelming force: fire and land. Lava and air. Ice and water. The glaciers that loomed before me had a hypnotising, overpowering effect, making me speechless. I felt my heart pound, while I was surrounded by what must have been the sound of vastness.

The midnight sun and its turquoise waters made me forget everything that doesn’t matter. They made me become aware of the huge gift that Mother Nature gives us every day and that everything I need lives inside me. I just have to know how to look at it.

Whilst I watched the sky being coloured with the northern lights, the stories about the elves and fairies that lived in its green fields turned into new pages of my travel journal. And touched by the beauty of the wild and its Viking legends, I saw how tradition and the future go hand in hand: because the earth is important and the future is ours.

And this is how I will always remember Iceland: like the warmest cold in the world. Like a shiver that goes through my body with vibrant force. Darkness dressed in lights, old fables that still survive while the water breaks on the rock and the fire roars under my feet.

There, where everything comes down to the only thing that matters, where the glaciers were my home and the flames were my heartbeat, in that old land of legends, I embraced my soul and I reconnected. Because that is what Iceland is like: an oasis in the middle of the world.

64° 8′ 7″ N, 21° 53′ 43″ W

Anekke Iceland

*HEIMA: home (Icelandic)

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