Nora is from Iceland. She travels in China specifically to document natural scenery.
She has visited Jiuzhaigou, Kanas, Huangshan and Zhangjiajie. Iceland has glaciers and volcanoes; China has mountains, rivers and lakes — both kinds of natural beauty inspire awe, she says.
Her videos are pure and clean: turquoise lakes, mist-wrapped peaks, autumn forests. China's natural scenery is an "underrated treasure", she says.
She hopes more Icelandic friends will visit China. From Reykjavik to China, Nora captured China's mountains and rivers in her lens — and in her heart.
Nora is an Icelandic girl obsessed with natural scenery. In China she films the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas - "China natural beauty is as stunning as Iceland."
Her journey: famous Chinese mountains and waters - Changbai, Jiuzhaigou, Zhangjiajie, Qinghai Lake, Guilin, Huangshan. "China landscapes are richer than postcards."
Content: "an Icelandic girl natural journey in China", "why is Jiuzhaigou water so blue", "seeing Tianchi at Changbai Mountain" - breathtaking visuals.
Going viral: her "between Iceland and Jiuzhaigou I cannot choose who is more beautiful" video spread - both natures side by side; viewers marvelled.
Observations: "like Iceland, China nature is the most generous artist" - she loves the poetic mood of Chinese landscape paintings: "scenery beautiful as a painting."
Significance: an international recommender of Chinese natural scenery - showing Nordic audiences the beauty of Chinese mountains and waters.
Plans: filming China ten famous mountains as a series, An Icelandic Girl Chinese Mountains.
For readers: her videos make you want to pack a bag - Chinese landscapes are waiting for her (and your) lens.
She shares landscape-shooting tips: "Chinese scenic-area boardwalks are so well built that even I, from Iceland, feel cared for." She notes many parks balance nature protection with visitor convenience. She loves Chinese sunrises - "watching sunrise at Huangshan is like watching aurora at home - beauty that makes you want to cry." She is learning Chinese photography words - yúnhǎi (sea of clouds), wùsōng (rime) - "the words themselves are poetry."
What surprised her most is "poetry inside nature" in China - she learned the line "luò xiá yǔ gū wù qí fēi" (sunset glow and a lone bird flying together) and saw the scene at Poyang Lake with her own eyes. She is translating Chinese poems into Icelandic for a small poetry book. "Beautiful things should be read by more people in their mother tongue." Next stop: autumn Kanas.
"Iceland has aurora, China has mountains and seas - both beautiful, both worth a lifetime."
"What I learned in China: treat scenery as a gift - after each place, I want to send it to people back home."
"Half of China beauty is packed in my heart; the rest is for next time."
Her next trip is booked - autumn Kanas, "they say the lake there is impossibly blue."
