So, at my extra day with time for excursions I had an amazing day of sunshine and blue sky and complete solitude while visiting Kvernufoss, Skógafoss and Sólheimajökull.
Kvernufoss is the less visited neighbour waterfall of Skógafoss in South-Iceland. It’s a beautiful 30-meters high waterfall that is half-hidden away in a gorge. In that gorge, you will find the largest concert hall of the Elves in Iceland.
About Skógafoss I already wrote in an earlier post, but this time I had a magical time there as I was all by myself and there was a complete rainbow visible next to the waterfall this time.
As glaciers and its lagoons really took my interest while being in the south I stopped by another one, the Sólheimajökull. It is an outlet glacier of the mighty icecap of Mýrdalsjökull and easily accessible and about 8 km long and 2 km wide. Sadly, like all the glaciers in Iceland, Sólheimajökull is shrinking rapidly. A glacier lagoon at its base reveals how quickly it is receding: the length of an Olympic swimming pool every year.