The hollow behind the curtain
You look at the plain through water.
Zoran Kurelić Rabko — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0
From Reykjavik: Seljalandsfoss (120 km), Skógafoss (30 km on), then the black beach of Reynisfjara (35 km) — a full day, about 400 km return.
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The waterfall you walk behind: Seljalandsfoss drops sixty metres from a cliff that was Iceland's ancient coastline, and behind its curtain a rock hollow carries a path all the way round — so you stand between water and stone and look out over the plain from the far side of the falls. A sight the world rarely repeats. Its water comes from the Seljalandsá, fed by Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that stopped European aviation in 2010. At summer sunset the sun drops directly behind the falls and lights the curtain from within — the south's most famous night photograph. Two hundred metres north lies hidden Gljúfrabúi: entered through a narrow rock cleft you wade into, opening on a chamber closed by its own waterfall in the middle — the south's hidden treasure, free, and needing shoes you don't mind soaking.
You look at the plain through water.
The sun lighting the falls from behind.
A waterfall inside a chamber you wade to.
Seljalandsfoss, South Coast