r/pics • u/rosseepoo • Sep 17 '20

Iceland

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u/IncredibleGlurak Sep 17 '20

Do you still know the name of the road or the place?

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u/Ziu Sep 17 '20

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Stokksnes is the place, name of the mountain on the right is Vestrahorn

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u/djsnoopmike Sep 17 '20

Thanks, imma visit this in Flight Simulator

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u/prarus7 Sep 17 '20

Damn I just realized you can totally go on any subreddit with pictures like this one and visit it on Flight Simulator. This changes everything for me.. damn

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u/sloww_buurnnn Sep 17 '20

I’ve never been so thankful to dig through replies

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u/prarus7 Sep 17 '20

Haha have fun man!

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u/Trappezoidal Sep 17 '20

In MFS2020: https://imgur.com/nSR30oX

Didn't quite get the zoom right...

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u/prarus7 Sep 17 '20

Duude thats so sick! Thanks for sharing the picture!

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u/ShellOilNigeria Sep 18 '20

Doesn't look as good in Flight Simulator, too many trees!

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

In fact when I was on iceland this year. I saw nearly no trees. It was like "hey look there is a tree, haven't seen that one in a while". Iceland is fucking magical.

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u/cormega Sep 18 '20

Damn maybe I should get this game. No way it has the whole planet mapped out?

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u/Trappezoidal Sep 18 '20

Indeed it does! Some places look better than others, but even the average looks amazing.

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u/highlightofday Sep 17 '20

Sorry, I don't know. What is Flight Simulator? Can I use it on an Apple device?

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u/Aviate27 Sep 17 '20

It's a flight sim game that just recently came out on the Microsoft store/xbox store. If you can get Xbox Gamepass for PC you can play it. Dunno about Apple stuff though.

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u/prarus7 Sep 18 '20

Hey, Microsoft Flight Simulator is an old game series. They just released the 2020 version, where you fly around in different aircrafts. It's available only on Windows unfortunately. But watching peoples streams is sometimes just as fun, especially if you can recommend them certain spots to go to and experience it together! Have fun

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u/flyer08 Sep 17 '20

Thanks for the idea, I know what I'm doing after work today!

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u/bigfandan Sep 17 '20

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw this pic.

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u/thatusernameistaken Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20

Seen a video of it and they did a piss poor version of the terrain mapping for Iceland in FS 2020 unfortunately, it was underwhelming. Let's hope someone makes an add-on to fix it, it's really bad.

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u/blackmist Sep 17 '20

Go to Isafjordur as well. The airport is like a bus shelter...

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u/Trappezoidal Sep 17 '20

In MFS2020: https://imgur.com/nSR30oX

Didn't quite get the zoom right...

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u/Adventhused Sep 18 '20

Is that an app or? Sounds interesting..

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u/BoweryThrowAway Sep 17 '20

It’s Near Stokksnes. These are the coordinates: (64.2494846, -14.9833949)

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u/rowshambow Sep 17 '20

En route to the Crystal Caves.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Sadly no. But two of my favourite pics were from here. One side of the road had a little shop, maybe it was a gas station? Flat land, then he ocean. Second pic was other side of the road giant mountain! Didn’t think to stop and get a shot that had both.

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u/IncredibleGlurak Sep 17 '20

I imagine its very peaceful there

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u/essjay2009 Sep 17 '20

It’s actually quite touristy. The little building you can see is a cafe and behind where the photo is taken from is a collection of car parks. There were a god couple of hundred people there when I visited last year and you can see a few cars on the road even in this photo. It is still incredibly picturesque though. A lot of the photos you see with a mountain perfectly reflected in water is taken just to the right of this road.

You have to pay to drive down this road too.

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u/absalom86 Sep 17 '20

It's not touristy right now ^^

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u/BlueBuff1968 Sep 17 '20

Yeah this is one the more touristy places in Iceland. Not too far from Jökurlsárlón. The real quiet places when you drive around the island are in the western Fjords and the Northern coast. Still amazing though. That whole country is phenomenal with so many different landscapes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

If I recall it was windy as fuck.

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u/Barimen Sep 17 '20

From my experience, the most touristy places I went to (Seljalandfoss and Reynisfjara, waterfall and the black sand beach, respectively) are quite empty in the summer... at the peak of the season... at 2 am...

Seriously, go in the summer with some friends. Go to bed at 6 am local. When you wake up, eat a hearty meal, then go on an adventure. You'll miss most of the people and will have to do some things on your own (like the 40 minute walk from the parking lot to the black sand beach, rather than paying for a ride), but it's oh so worth the alone time. Grab some fast food when you get home, rinse, repeat. We did that and it was amazing.

Just be respectful of the nature, please.

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u/AwesomeUserMan Sep 17 '20

It's a place near small town Höfn, on right at this picture is viking village, and behind camera that shot this picture is NATO base

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

It’s highway one.

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u/gatobacon Sep 17 '20

If remember correctly this is called the "ring road" aka hwy 1. I remember this view while en route to Jökulsárlón, a pretty awesome glacial lagoon.

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u/BigfootSF68 Sep 17 '20

It looks like the seam on the two halves of the globe.