By Li

We packed up our gear and we were sad to leave our little home we had for the last few days. We headed on to our next destination Egilsstadir, en-route we stopped off Stuðlagil canyon after a couple hours drive. The view was quite spectacular and the view point was a large metal platform which made Li’s legs turn to jelly as it was so high up.

The canyon itself was very long but the key viewing area of rock was very strange, it reminded us of the giant causeway in Ireland; the column structures were of the same ilk. Although some were stacked like logs, some curved and some were dead straight upright. There was a waterfall but it was majority frozen, still there was some serious water flowing through in to the canyon.

After the canyon, we headed on to Rjukandi waterfall which was pretty amazing. It had 3 feeds coming down, the frozen water coming down made it quite superb to look at.

We finally arrived at our hotel and was very hungry, after all it was gone 3pm so we went on a hunt for some food. We found a cafe / bistro called Salt which had some amazing pizza. I even managed to get a glass of rose in for a grand price of £8.50, I won’t be having too many of those.

After checking in to our hotel, we didn’t fancy sitting in the room so went out on the hunt for another waterfall, this one was only 7 minutes drive away. We arrived at Fardagafoss, albeit we did drive pass the parking as it wasn’t clear. another excuse to wear our crampons, it was a half hour trek to the waterfall.

Sadly, due to the snow build up, we couldn’t climb behind the waterfall to explore the cave but it was a lovely trek and we also passed another waterfall called Gufufoss (Steam falls).

Back to the hotel and not feeling much for food, we decided to relax in the bar instead. Catch us tomorrow when we move on again.