Your suitcase is already full before you add a coat, waterproof shoes, and the wool layers Iceland demands. The fix is not packing less warmth; it is packing fewer duplicate items and planning to wash clothes during the trip. Pack for Wind and Rain, Not Just Low Temperatures Verdict: build your Iceland winter packing list
The bamboo grove at Arashiyama looks exactly like the photographs. It also looks exactly like the photographs because roughly 20,000 people are taking them at the same moment you are. Kyoto’s most celebrated sites have, in many respects, become victims of their own documentation — photographed into algorithm-fed ubiquity and now permanently overcrowded before 9