The straight wall
Sixty metres over twenty-five wide.
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The first is mightier and more dramatic, the second more singular because you walk behind it; thirty kilometres apart on the same road, so no need to choose.
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A wall of water twenty-five metres wide and sixty high: Skógafoss is the South Coast's mightiest and most perfectly straight waterfall, dropping from the same ancient coastline as Seljalandsfoss but at double the scale — you can walk right up to the water's edge, and the spray throws a double rainbow on almost every clear day. Legend says the first settler Þrasi buried a chest of gold in a cave behind the falls, and that a boy once glimpsed it and seized its ring, which tore away leaving nothing else — the ring is displayed in the neighbouring Skógar museum, one of the country's best heritage collections with its turf houses. A stair of 527 steps climbs to the falls' lip and on to the famous Fimmvörðuháls trail crossing between two glaciers to Þórsmörk (25 km for full-day walkers). From the top of the stair the plain opens all the way to the sea.
Sixty metres over twenty-five wide.
Turf houses and the legend's chest ring.
Skógar, South Coast