Skógafoss

Skógafoss is a 60 m high waterfall in South Iceland and a popular tourist attraction right by the ring road. At least 20 more waterfalls cascade down the mountain slopes above the Skógafoss and it is easy to walk along the river to see them. Walk further on that trail and you will walk through an ash desert from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, and then the still cooling lava of the earlier eruption at Fimmvörðuháls. The first settler at Skógar was Þrasi Þórólfsson. He is said to have hidden a chest filled with gold coins in a cave behind the waterfall. Many have tried to find the chest and once a young man succeeded - or so the story goes. He tied a rope to its ring and pulled. He only retrieved the ring, which was later used for the church door at Skógar.