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1. Skógafoss waterfall The Skógafoss waterfall is on oft the biggest and most beautiful waterfall in Iceland, about 62 meters high and about 25 meters wide. It is a great place to stop by and take some pictures or to do a short hike. If you hike to the top of the waterfall and a little bit future you will find more waterfalls and you will be able to enjoy the view over the bla ...

Iceland is one of the few places in the world where you have volcanic activity and glaciers at the same place. There are about 10 to 11% of Iceland covered with glaciers and at the same time we have over 30 active volcanoes here and many of them are located underneath the glaciers. If we have a volcanic eruption underneath a glacier there will be a lot of ice melting in a very ...

Visitors driving along the Southern Ring Road can't miss a small but beautiful village Skógar which lies just a few kilometres away off it. It's popular summer destination offering a lot to see also throughout the year. Translated into Icelandic, Skógar (pronounced [ˈskou.ar] , means forest and it has a population of 25 inhabitants living in this area between the rivers Skógá a ...

The Icelandic Yule lads are quite different from the cute, chubby, white bearded red-dressed Santa Claus who all the children of the world know. The story of the Icelandic Yule lads comes from Icelandic folklore. It’s always been a debate on their number. In one poem about them it says; “einn og átta” one and eight =9, other say one and eight =18, but today they are considered ...