In a darkish auditorium in Reykjavik, effervescent orange lava flows down a slide to inside inches of awe-struck guests.
The circulate, contained on either side by black sand, lights up the room like a dawn.
That is the Lava Present, Iceland’s newest vacationer attraction, that makes use of reheated lava from an actual eruption of the island’s Katla volcano greater than 100 years in the past.
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The warmth emanating from the molten rock is tangible, a lot in order that among the spectators shuffle of their seats to take away their coats.
“That is the present the place you get to expertise actual molten lava flowing inside a constructing, deliberately,” the Lava Present’s Scottish host Iain MacKinnon joked.
The molten liquid sizzled because it hit blocks of ice, crackling just like the sound of breaking glass because it cooled.
“It was actually lovely,” Jasmine Luong, a 28-year-old Australian vacationer from Melbourne informed AFP.
“I can see why lots of people can be drawn to (an eruption), however clearly you would not be capable of go close to it in a traditional pure setting,” she added.
“It is a lot safer.”
‘Wow impact’
There is similar “wow impact” that individuals get at an eruption web site, MacKinnon mentioned.
Tons of of 1000’s of curious onlookers have flocked to look at the hypnotising jets of lava at Iceland’s Mount Fagradalsfjall after two eruptions over the past 12 months simply 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Reykjavik.
However not all Icelandic eruptions are secure.
Whereas the lava used within the present retains a touch of sulphur, the damaging poisonous gases that usually emanate from an eruption have dissipated, because the rock has been reheated and melted down so many occasions.
Greater than 600 kilos (1,320 kilos) of tephra — the rocks ejected from Katla, considered one of Iceland’s most harmful volcanoes, when it final erupted in 1918 — are used within the Lava Present.