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Situated about 150km from Reykjavik, the waterfall at Skogar (Seljalandsfoss) is one of the great attractions of South Iceland. I made my first trip there in June 2006, as part of a tour which also took in the nearby Thorsmork glaciers and forests and wild spaces. As soon as I got on the bus and saw the snow on the mountains and my kind of oldly guide, I realized that I had premonitioned this entire trip in a dream a few months before arriving in Iceland. It was a dream come true, and the scenery wasn't bad either. We passed Hekla, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth. And the sun shone, and the earth was green and fairYes siree this waterfall is pretty wild, and I was honored to make it's acquaintance, and approach it in person
Upon arriving at the waterfall, I set out to do the usual tourist thing, and walk behind the falls on the wet, muddy, slippery path. True to form, I ended up doing the route back-to-front, starting at the end and ending at the finish. The tour guides were saying that they had rarely seen the weather so good in this part of Iceland, so I was probably seeing Seljalandsfoss at it at its almost best. It definitely has a charm of its own, though I got wet and a trifle muddy, and I was being haunted by the ghosts of the recent past
The path which leads right behind the curtains of water, and out to the other sideAccording to Karyn Sigurddson, there is a legend at the nearby Skogarfoss that behind that particular waterfall is a chest of treasures. Legend has it that a man ventured behind the falls and grasped the handle on the chest, only for the treasure to vanish in front his very eyes. He managed to keep a grip on the handle, and the handle is now on the door to the church in Skogarfoss

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