The waterfall Skógafoss, is situated in the south of Iceland at the cliffs of the former coastline. After the coastline had receded into the sea (it is now at a distance of about 5 km from Skógar), the cliffs stayed behind parallel to the coast over hundreds of kilometers, creating together with some mountains a clear border between the Lowlands and the Highlands of Iceland. The Skógafoss is one of the biggest and most beautiful waterfalls of the country with a width of 25 meters and a drop of 60 meters.I think this waterfall is breathtaking, almost perfect... and I do think that you will not regret taking the trip to Skógafoss. Due to the amount of spray the waterfall consistently produces, a single or double rainbow is normally visible on sunny days. I cant even rember Skogafoss without its rainbow. According to legend, the first Viking settler in the area, Þrasi Þórólfsson, buried a treasure in a cave behind the waterfall. A local boy found the chest years later, but was only able to grasp the ring on the side of the chest before it disappeared again. At the eastern side of the waterfall, a hiking and trekking trail leads up to the pass Fimmvörðuháls between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. It goes down to Þórsmörk on the other side and continues as the famous Laugavegur to Landmannalaugar.

Skogar has a beautiful waterfall...so I read in my Iceland guide. Why not stop there. The waterfall is absolutely amazing, it's huge! It stopped raining btw...the weather reminded me of Ireland :)

There were stairs going up alongside the waterfall. You have to climb up there, it is amazing!

From there we headed further west to get to our hut! There were no major sights along the way, the scenery is absolutely breathtaking though. By the time we got near Selfoss it was getting dark already. Trying to find Uthlid turned out to be a challenge. When we were driving around this area we could see lots of areas where light was shining up into the sky. We didn;t know what it was, it just looked very spooky. Getting closer to the source, we discovered they were greenhouses. They were heated by the hot springs and apparently they grow different sorts of vegetables in them. Trust me, it is a spooky sight in the middle of the night.

After a long drive and different stops trying to find our hut, we finally managed :)

22^nd Juli Skogar

What an incredible campsite, what an incredible day we had. So much running. From Reykjavik we went to a crater with a ten minute break, I went down to the bottom and had to run back up to get to the bus, had to run back down and back up because the camera fell out of my pocket. Gullfoss and Geysir were beautiful/ The plant life supported by the mist from the falls, 1 tonne of water per second. The hot springs at geyser were excellent; and hot and blue and grey and eggy.

We’ve just gone past the glacier and seen a giant frozen tounge snaking down to where it creates a river.

Lastnight we went up 382 stairs and over the waterfall of the campsite to catch the glacier 10km away, but when I ran off to find it the clouds took it away from me and after running back for mieke’s scarf as we were leaving, the clouds disappeared with only their echoing laughter remaining.

Up in the hills surrounding the skogarfoss I saw the remains of long petrified trolls and I could have sworn I herd them. I also met a ram with a young sheep who seemed threatened by me as he jumped to attention.

The minute plant life supporting a magical population of white moths, which only seem to appear when you step near them, covers the area. It’s astounding to see the mountains in their stoic beauty and realise that on the amazing enormous sentinels is a dense layer of life which is just as amazing.

As we fell asleep lastnight to the sound of skogarfoss I was thinking that in the morning I had to go into the water, and I did, and it was cold, it was hard to breathe, it flows from the glacier, it was cold.

From the thermal pool on Wednesday, the hot pot at 45° to a stream that seriously felt like liquid ice.

In the morning sun as I stood in the water the rain-like spray from the waterfall created a ring of rainbow, the base coming to my feet and as I walked with my rainbow ring following me I realised that no one else could see my rainbow and no one ever could, they can only ever see their own.

EVERYONE HAS A RAINBOW

No one else can see anything I see.

At the black sand beach town of Vik I just ate choc covered vanilla icecream with a liquorice centre. Mieke didn’t like it.