Hjálparfoss rainbows and Lupine || Iceland {Explore 194, 2022/10/30}

            What amazed me most in my Icelandic trip was how few people were at locations outside of the tour bus sites. Only a couple were there and not for long at Hjálparfoss.

The twin waterfalls are only 40 minutes from Secret Lagoon which is a very popular spot on the Golden Circle circuit.

You can see the amazing basalt rock formations next to the falls showing the huge forces during cooling of lava. Spray with the sun behind me produces these constant rainbows in the mist and who can resist the colourful Lupines (curse or saviour!) in the foreground :-)

Hjálparfoss (“Help’s Falls”) marks the joining of 2 rivers: Fossá and Þjórsá. So called because when people had to travel from the north to the south over the highlands of Iceland they had to travel through the harsh and desolated Sprengisandur route. It was usually very hard to find a place in this desert route to feed the horses and when arriving to the the lush area near Hjálparfoss people thought of it as a help, because finally there was grass for the horses to bite after this long journey.

Taken in: Iceland / South / Rangárvallahreppur (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/11.0, 1/250 sec, 33mm, ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)

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