Day 3-part 2, Þingvellir National Park

Most of the next 3 days were spent in the Golden Circle and Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site. We stopped to see the faults created by North American and Eurasian tectonic plates shifting apart. The Oxara river cuts through the largest rift in the valley, Almannagja, and leads to the Oxarafoss waterfall. Iceland’s parliament was also established in the area in 930, the park was later created to protect the remains of the open-air assembly grounds.
Pictures: 1-2 Tectonic plates 3: I walked from spot to upper right hand corner
4-6: some history about punishments and the waterfall and me.Read more