After a good sleep and breakfast, I walked to the Skógafoss waterfall and prepared for my hike. At the bottom of the waterfall there’s a huge carpark and a lot of tourists. I actually didn’t get too close to the waterfall, because the spray was freaking cold!
The start of the hike was a 60+ meter climb up some stairs. This takes people to the top of the waterfall. Walking a few hundred meters upstream, there was already fewer tourists. I continued walking next to the gorge and taking a lot of pictures, and encountering spectacular waterfalls.
Here is a map of my route (or an OSM version) for this day. I walked only around 14km (7km upstream, and 7km back). And you can see where this area is (the red rectangle) compared to the whole island!
After a while I met a man also hiking in my direction, Bor from Slovenia. Hiking alone is never recommended, so we decided to join up and hike together. He was going further though, this hiking route goes to Thórsmörk, and a motivated hiker can even connect to the 55km Laugavegur trekking route. Since I had my car parked back near Skógafoss, and no camping equipment, I was just going to hike until I reach the time to go home, and turn back.
The weather was partly cloudy, partly sunny this day. Fog would come and go. Which was okay for me, permanent sun would be too much. I wanted to get close to the Eyjafjallajökull glacier and volcano, but the fog sadly covered it.
We walked until around 3 PM and stopped for lunch. As we were eating, the fog came down thick. Bor was walking further, and I decided to walk back down. Walking in the thick fog was quite interesting. At 6:30 PM I was back at the village Skógar, feeling satisfied.