A LONG road to a BIG Waterfall

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You wouldn't believe how long it took us to get here!
We left our hostel after eating breakfast in the morning to go see the waterfalls. We stopped by the bakery to get some more kleina (twisted donuts) and then headed for Detifoss. We drove for a while, and then my parents said we were going to have to go another way, because our rental car couldn’t make it over the large rock piles. So we turned around and drove for a couple more hours, following the same route we had taken on our first day, and looking at the sights we’d seen.

This is Selfoss
We finally reached Detifoss and decided to go see Selfoss, the smaller waterfall first. We walked a bit, and then, after crossing a small river, we saw it. It was not very small, and it sort of curved in a half-circle of water. It looked a bit like Godafoss, the waterfall we’d seen the first day. There were four waterfalls at the place, but my parents told me that if we were going to make it to Seydisfjordur at all we only had time to see two waterfalls.

rainbow at Detifoss
Next we started back and started towards Detifoss. I could feel it before I saw it. It was so huge that the mist came all the way up the cliff side. Water had formed a canyon and a giant double rainbow spanning the side. The comical part was how the mist was only on our side of the canyon, so our side of the canyon was covered in green, while the other side was all rock. The waterfall itself was beautiful, and you couldn’t see the bottom of it, so much mist was generated from the waterfall. ON our side of the waterfall, there was so much water coming up, I was glad I had my rain jacket on. There was even a little micro-waterfall in the rock. We looked at the glorious waterfall for a while, and then we carefully headed up the very slippery staircase and got in our car to drive to Seydisfjordur.





Detifoss
See more of the falls here: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjAiAMYj

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