By now you have come to learn, as we did, that "foss" is the Icelandic word for "waterfall." Dettifoss is Iceland's second largest waterfall, and both it and its nearby neighbor, Selfoss, emanate from the Vatnajokull icefield, perhaps a hundred miles away, and end up in the Sea of Greenland, to the north. As with Gulfoss, on the Golden Circle, Dettifoss is a sort of diagonal affair, dropping into the deep trench the river has dug out of the basalt. Selfoss is much smaller that Dettifoss, but it is a "traditional" horseshoe waterfall and can be seen from all sorts of vantage points down the river. But for the waterfalls, this is a pretty desolate part of the world.
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| Approaching Dettifoss |
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| Faint double rainbow |
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Looking at the desolation all around, you wonder where the water
could come from; then you see this monster... |
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| Fuller views of Dettifoss |
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| Walking up-river toward Selfoss |
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| Selfoss, Vicki's favorite |
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| Us at Selfoss |
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| Guided by the neverending bishops' cairns, we proceeded on |
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To our next stop, the beginning of the huge thermal area just
east of Reykjahlid |
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| We overnighted at a campground in Reykjahlid |
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Icelandic campgrounds sure don't look like campgrounds in the USA.
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