Iceland: Day 12 - The Waterfalls
July 6, 2004
The southernmost part of Jökulsárgljúfur National Park boasts some of Iceland's most famous waterfalls. To get there we took a dirt road which was horrendous to drive from all the little bumpy ridges in it. The landscape was absolutely barren.
We first visited Hafragilsfoss which is 27m high. Then we saw Dettifoss which is Europe's most powerful waterfall. It is 45 m high and 100 m across. An average of 212 tons of water per second flow over it, expending over 9 Gigawatts of power. It is not the prettiest waterfall though and our favourite ended up being Selfoss at only 10 m high.
At this point it was getting pretty late and there was a beautiful moon in the sky. Strangely enough we found road construction crews working past midnight. Shortly after we decided to pull over and call it a night in our mobile hotel Clio.
Nothing but a very bumpy dirt road going through the barren landscape.
A beautiful view over Jökulsárgljúfur.
Hafragilsfoss in the light of the sunset.
Looking out over the canyon and Hafragilsfoss.
Approaching Dettifoss, Europe's most powerful waterfall.
Rubby already feeling the spray from Dettifoss.
An average of 212 tons of water per second are flowing just feet away from Rubby!
Look ma! Just one more step backwards...
Rubby gets a really close view of Selfoss.
A beautiful sunset.
sun & moon
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