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SKOGAFOSS WATERFALL-ICELAND

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This is one of the first waterfalls that I could not forget more than ten years ago on my first photography trip to Iceland. I had never experienced a waterfall of such dimensions before and the soundscape is overwhelming and if the wind comes from the wrong direction, you are wet within seconds. Skógafoss pours 60 meters into the depth over a width of 25 meters. On the eastern side of the waterfall a famous trekking path, the Laugavegur, leads up to the pass Fimmvörðuháls and further over the Þórsmörk to Landmannalaugar. A legend tells that the first Viking settler in this area (Þrasi Þórólfsson) buried a treasure in a cave behind Skógafoss. Years later a boy discovered the chest, but could only reach for the handle before the chest disappeared. The ring of the treasure chest is now kept in the Skógasafn Museum.

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