After an excellent breakfast at the Hotel Borg on Tuesday morning last week, we headed by taxi to the Perlan, Iceland's natural history museum. We arrived before dawn (10:35 a.m.), so these outside photographs were actually taken when we left.
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| Perlan: Wonders of Iceland |
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Dance (1970)
Torbjorg Palsdottir |
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The Arctic fox is Iceland's only native mammal.
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| A fossilized walrus tusk. The animal no longer lives in Iceland. |
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| Model of the Látrabjarg Cliffs. The exhibit also features augmented reality. |
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| Polar bear |
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| The world's first artificial ice cave |
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| Water tiger |
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| Water tiger |
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| Looking up at the snow-covered dome |
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| Coffee bar with a good slogan |
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| Interior of the dome. The observation deck is at this level on the outside. |
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| Outside on the observation deck looking back at the dome |
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| Looking out at the landscape, we couldn't see all that much from the observation deck during a flurry. |
In the afternoon, we took a cab back to Reykjavík.
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| Punk Museum |
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That's the Parliament building on the far right.
 | The view of the square from our hotel room
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| The Little Prince in Icelandic |
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