Exploring Northern Iceland and Godafoss

Yesterday was a pretty big day of driving but it was an extremely scenic one. We saw it all… sun, snow, ice, cloud, rain, fjords, waterfalls, mountains and lots of horses. We began our 2 hour drive to Reykjafoss but an hour in we realised we forgot our camping table at the campsite so had to turn back around which was a bit of a mood kill. But it was okay because that meant we got to drive through the big cloud over the mountain again and hop out of the car (0 degrees on top of the mountain) and touch some Icelandic snow/ice that had formed all around us. It felt pretty special driving through the mountains surrounded by ice everywhere. We then got to Reykjafoss and went for a beautiful stroll to the waterfall. From there we began our next drive but made a quick stop on the side of the road to look at some horsies. The landscape behind them was so beautiful and horse whisperer Eth even fed one of them some grass. Our last stop of the day at sunset was the famous Godafoss waterfall. It had so much mist and this waterfall is where the “chief” of Iceland back in the day threw totems of the pagan Norse gods to symbolise the nation’s official adoption of Christianity. We also got to do one of our favourite things: fill up our bottles in the cold running Icelandic water.Read more