Vesturdalur

We started the day by driving to Dettifoss. This is the most powerful waterfall in Iceland and 2nd most powerful in Europe. It was truly awe-inspiring to watch the immense power of nature at work (and get wet from the mist in the process). A short walk away was Selfoss which is not a huge waterfall but more of a collection of smaller waterfalls in a horseshoe shape, which was also impressive.

Next we drove down the road listening to a Norse Mythology audio book until we reached Studlagil Canyon. Eth read online that you weren't supposed to drive across a bridge so we parked in a little carpark and walked along a road for 25 minutes, being passed by lots of cars until we reached the actual carpark before we started the actual 3km hike (oops, sorry for the longer walk). It was such a gorgeous walk anyway, lots of greenery and farmland viees. Studlagil is famous for its basalt columns and clear blue water, we got the columns but unfortunately a dam upriver has been filled by melting glaciers so we had to settle for dirty brown water. We had a scenic lunch overlooking the canyon before starting the long walk back to the car.

Our last stop for the day was Hengifoss but on the way Iesha found a spontaneous waterfall stop on the side of the road called Rjukandi. This is in both of our top 3 waterfalls in Iceland at the moment because of its height, tiers and lack of a hike. Hengifoss was really tall (128m) which meant we had a crazy steep walk to get to see it which exhausted us both at the end of an already big walking day. It was quite an intense walk to say the least. We were both excited that our chosen campsite was only 6km away but were a bit unnerved when we rocked up to the nicest campsite of the trip but with only 2 people already there and no reception. A nice French tourist kindly pointed us in the direction of the campsite owner who was also quite strange saying that "we can camp if we want and just find him and pay in the morning". The reception wasn't open in the morning so we just left (that's one $50 parking spot we don't have to pay for).Leia mais