Arriving in Iceland is always a bracing reminder of the power of Mother Nature. But going straight from the plane to Björk’s museum exhibit, followed by a geothermal dip at Sky Lagoon, and then onto the nearby festival that attracted fans (and fashion designers) from near and far to dance under a midnight sun was another experience altogether.
On Wednesday, at Víðistaðatún, a sculpture park in Hafnarfjörður just outside Reykjavík, thousands gathered for Echolalia, a one-day festival timed to one of nature’s rarest spectacles—and the first total solar eclipse visible from Iceland since 1954.
