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5 Amateur Traveler episode 497 today the amateur traveler talks about fjords and waterfalls, Arctic foxes and

macro pants as we go to the west fjords of Iceland. I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not so the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

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I'd like to welcome the show Katie Hamill who is an editor at vietor.com and also a freelance travel writer and friend and has come to talk to us about Iceland.

Katie welcome to the show. Thank you I'm happy to be here. We've done one more show on Iceland previously a few years back which was about the

ring road around Iceland but Katie you pitched me something different yes

most people know the ring road they know Reykjavik and they know the Golden Circle, the Blue

Lagoon, but fewer people know the West Fjords, which is this very remote region up in the

northwest of Iceland that only about three to six percent of Iceland's tourists ever

visit. Oh I didn't realize it was that small. I know it is more difficult to get to

them for instance the Golden Circle which you can day trip from Reykjavik to see

how do you get to the region that we're talking about, first of all?

It definitely requires some efforts.

There are three main ways you can get there.

You can fly, which is about a 40 minute flight directly into the largest city, which is called

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