Sentences with phrase «icelandic horses»

Along the way, they were rewarded with sights of raw beauty including rushing waterfalls, majestic volcanoes and galloping Icelandic horses.

The landscapes often include charmingly stylized depictions of Icelandic horses and sheep.

I've heard lots about Icelandic Horses, thermal pools and scenery, but I knew nothing about Reykjavik other than that it existed.

You will see beautiful Icelandic horses at the barn or in the fields, and they have a very good restaurant serving excellent burgers at a reasonable price.

The capital city of Reykjavik makes a fine base for excursions to swim outdoors at the Blue Lagoon or to ride Icelandic horses across some of the most rugged terrain on earth.

Highlights on the Golden Circle: Þingvellir National Park, Geysers at Haukadalur, Gullfoss Waterfall, Kerið Crater Lake, Icelandic horses

Iceland offers its visitors the opportunity to scan the ocean for sightings of the largest mammal on earth, to peruse the skies or cliffs for birdlife, or to ride the small but sturdy Icelandic horses.

The beautiful Icelandic horses along the route were also hard to resist.

Some horses are able to perform ambling gaits and / or pace, for instance, Icelandic Horses can tölt (an ambling gait) and perform flying pace.

They detected the mutation in samples of two English horses from 850 — 900 AD and more frequently in Icelandic horses dating to the 9th — 11th century.

The high frequency of the mutation for gaitedness in the early Icelandic horses indicates that the Icelandic settlers preferably bred gaited horses — apparently the comfortable gaits proved to be particularly suitable for long distance travel through rough terrain.

Historic sagas also suggest that Icelandic horses exhibited the ability for alternative gaits at a very early stage.

At the time, scientists studying Icelandic horses known for a special gait discovered that they, as well as American Standardbred horses used in harness racing, share a somewhat shortened version of a gene called DMRT3.

Some of these horses would have arrived in Europe with merchants, others would have been gifts between rulers, and still others might have been captured during warfare, says Wallner, who has two Icelandic horses at her own home in Vienna.

Three Northern European breeds — the Shetland pony, the Norwegian Fjord horse, and the Icelandic horse — appear more distantly related to the others.

Choose to go hiking across the rolling scrublands just outside the city, ride an Icelandic horse through the Hafnarfjörður lava field, or go kayaking along the coast.

Kathy's passions are skiing, running, her Icelandic horse, gravity, and her latest favorite thing — Dance Dance Revolution.

Not exact matches

The posterior distributions shown correspond to analyses restricting mutations to transversions and considering CGG10022 and Przewalski's horse, comparing these genomes with that of the Icelandic (unnamed) horse.

What bumps the film up from minor to major achievement is its expert cinematography, which captures the majesty of horses unlike any movie I've seen, while capturing the stunning Icelandic landscape just as well.

And that he does so with a portmanteau film about men and their horses — set in the beautiful Icelandic landscape popularised by Walter Mitty — proves that cinema can utilise just about any subject matter to say something important if it tries.