Showing posts with label Waterfalls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waterfalls. Show all posts

Akureyri, Iceland - Godafoss Waterfall

Godafoss Waterfall is located on the Skjálfandafljót River which runs through Bárðardalur and Kinn in Northeast Iceland, and is just off main ring road 1 by the farm Fosshóll. It is among Iceland’s larger waterfalls and also very beautiful. (Source: http://www.edgeofthearctic.is/places-to-see/godafoss-waterfall/)

Me: it was beautiful!  It is a split waterfall.  The area around the waterfalls is treacherous for walking and we had to be very careful.  A lot of people, slippery paths, pointy sharp rocks...I'm outta here!  I walked down the walkway along the other to get different photos.  We were to meet further down this path at the visitor center.

Goðafoss is closely connected with one of the most important event in Icelandic history, the conversion to Christianity from heathendom or “the old custom” in the year 1000.


 I walked across the span bridge.

 Another stepped waterfall was below the main pair.



Beautiful area: rushing and falling water, brutal landscape, dramatic skies.  And a woman in a red coat walking in the photo.  Perfect!

Akureyri, Iceland - Sampler

What a day!  Travel to Namaskard to witness boiling hot mud pools with dense vapors that cloak the hot sulfur pits at one of the  most active volcanic areas on Iceland.  Dimmulborgir, weird shaped lava formations.  Skutastadir and the large craters on the southern shore of Lake Myvatn called pseudo, or rootless craters.  And the grand finale, Godafoss Waterfall.

More details to come... Oh, and yes, we were able to see the plume from the active volcano about 50 miles away.

Here are a few pictures.  (Note: It looks like the pictures will load...

 Large craters

Boiling hot mud pools

Weird lava shapes

Godafoss Waterfall





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