Ásbyrgi Gorge
- 2015
The canyon's steep sides are formed by cliffs up to 100 metres in height.
Down in the canyon, visitors walk through a woodland of birch and willow.
Between 1947 and 1977, a number of foreign tree species were introduced, including fir, larch and pine.
This was the most concentrated area of trees that we saw in the whole of Iceland.
Ásbyrgi was most likely formed by catastrophic glacial flooding of the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum after the last Ice Age.
The legend explains the unusual shape of the canyon differently.
Nicknamed Sleipnir's footprint, it is said that the canyon was formed when Odin's eight-legged horse,
Sleipnir, touched one of its feet to the ground here.
A short walk from the car-park to one of the walls of the canyon.
A poor photo through the dirty window of the minibus.
The canyon's steep sides are formed by cliffs up to 100 metres in height.
Down in the canyon, visitors walk through a woodland of birch and willow.
Between 1947 and 1977, a number of foreign tree species were introduced, including fir, larch and pine.
This was the most concentrated area of trees that we saw in the whole of Iceland.
Ásbyrgi was most likely formed by catastrophic glacial flooding of the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum after the last Ice Age.
The legend explains the unusual shape of the canyon differently.
Nicknamed Sleipnir's footprint, it is said that the canyon was formed when Odin's eight-legged horse,
Sleipnir, touched one of its feet to the ground here.
A short walk from the car-park to one of the walls of the canyon.
A poor photo through the dirty window of the minibus.
