Iceland is one of the most magnificent countries in the world for the beauty of its landscapes. The country has a lot of incredible and delightful places, and that is why the country entered the top 10 most interesting countries in the world. One of the uniqueness of Iceland is the black beach.
Black beach location
Iceland's Black Beach is located near the village of Vik. Vik is a small village in the south of the country with only a couple of hundred inhabitants.
The village, located on the coast of the black beach, has a peculiar climate that depends on the current of the Gulf Stream. Vik has the wettest climate in Iceland.
Along with the black beach, one of the equally important attractions of Vic can be distinguished - Cape Dirholaey. It is a collection of rocks, which, intertwining with each other, form arches and go into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
Where does the name of the black beach come from?
In Iceland, the black beach is called Reynisfjara. We can say that the beach is called black precisely because a narrow strip of fine black sand stretches along the coast for five kilometers. The formation of the black beach lasted more than one hundred years. Volcanoes are the main factor in its formation. The lava that poured from the mouth of the volcano reached the ocean.
When interacting with water, it slowly cooled down and remained for a long time on the ocean shore. Then it turned into a homogeneous solid rock, which slowly but surely, under the influence of the ocean and over the course of not a single millennium, turned into fine black sand. This whole long process has led to the emergence of one of the most beautiful beaches on earth.
Iceland's Black Beach is a vacation spot for many tourists
Tourists vacationing in Iceland rush to find themselves on its black beach. They are not even stopped by the fact that only the most hardened daredevils will be able to swim in the ocean, because the water in it is very cold. However, tourists are eager to visit Reynisfjara, not so much to bask on its black sand or plunge into the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, but rather to see the magnificent beauty of these places.
In Iceland, there is a legend according to which trolls tried to sink a ship with sheep on its way to Iceland. However, their intentions were not destined to come true, and at dawn these trolls turned into rocks. Now hundreds of tourists from different countries come to admire these rocks.
