| Heat in the Earth |
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| The land of fire and ice |
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| Sunday 19th June |
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| Dad and I have just arrived in Iceland - the land of fire and ice! |
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| I am really looking forward to this holiday. |
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| I'm going to write everything down in this diary. |
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| When we were flying over the island we could see the volcanoes and the glaciers. |
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| None of the vlocanoes was erupting. |
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| I would like to see an eruption - it would be thrilling - but active volcanoes are dangerous. |
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| It's safer when they're quiet. |
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| Tomorrow we're going to Hekla. |
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| It's an active volcano but it hasn't erupted for several years. |
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| Monday 20th June |
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| Today we climbed to the top Hekla. |
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| We didn't go into the crater, though. |
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| There was snow on the ground but in some places the rocks were warm. |
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| The snow was melting and the rocks were steaming. |
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| Our guide picked up a small rock and told us about it. |
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| When the volcano erupts, the rock from deep under the ground comes out of the volcano. |
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| The rock is so hot that it is liquid. |
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| It runs down the sides of the volcano, then it cools and goes hard. |
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| It's called lava. It isn't smooth at all. |
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| It feels very rough and a bit sharp. You can easily cut yourself on it. |
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| Our guide's name is Ari. |
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| In the hotel this evening he drew a diagram of what Hekla looks like inside. |
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| Now I understand why the ground was hot. |
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| There is liquid rock down there - now! |
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| Ari showed us pictures of Hekla erupting. |
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| He let me keep this one. He is very nice. |
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| He's a student at the moment but he's going to be a geologist. |
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| He knows a lot about rocks and everything about the volcanoes in lceland. |
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| Tuesday 21st June |
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| Today we saw a geyser - that's a kind of hot spring. |
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| About every ten minutes hot water went shooting up from the ground like a huge fountain. |
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| It was fantastic. |
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| The water underground is heated by the hot rocks. |
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| First it bubbles then when it gets really hot it suddenly goes up about 10 metres high. |
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| Whoosh! What incredible power! |
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| Dad took this picture. |
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| Wednesday 22nd June |
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| We went to a really strange place today. |
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| We went to the top of a volcano, then we went down inside. |
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| The ground was steaming and there were lots of hot springs. |
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| Sometimes these springs are boiling hot so you must be careful. |
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| There were noisy pools of hot bubbling mud, too! |
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| They're called mud pots. What weird sounds! |
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| A long time ago people believed in dragons and monsters. |
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| They thought they lived in volcanoes and now I know why. |
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| The noises sounded like terrifying monsters under our feet. |
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| What a peculiar place! |
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| Monsters under ground |
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| Thursday 24th June |
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| Today was terrific fun. We went to a gigantic pool outside. |
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| I thought the water would be freezing cold but it was like being in a warm bath! |
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| It was brilliant. |
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| A hot spring feeds the pool. |
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| It's like having a hot tap running all the time so the pool never geos cold. |
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| I wanted to stay all day. |
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| Tomorrow Ari's taking us to a glacier. |
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| This is the best holiday ever! |
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| Me and dad in the warm pool |
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| Listen 5 times |
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