Gullfoss It is also called golden waterfall. The water, coming from the glacial river Hvitá, falls 32 meters in two stages at an average rate of 109 cubic meters per second. The heaviest floods have recorded a flow of 2000 cubic metres per second. During the summer the flow is 130 cubic metres per second, which would take only 3 seconds to fill this building. People were eager to exploit the power potential of Gullfoss and many plans for hydroelectric developments on the river Hvítá have been proposed.
Dettifoss
It is known as the most powerful waterfall in whole Europe. The water, coming from the glacial river called Jökulsá á Fjöllum, falls 100 meters, at between 200 and 500 cubic meters per second! It is also amazing that Dettifoss has 100 meters wide. This waterfall is the southernmost part of the National Park Jökulsárgljúfur (more information in chapter 3). Oh yes, please Icelandic mates, tell us how the hell can we pronounce that National Park!
Those are must-seeing, don't you think?!
Well, of course visiting Iceland would damage our small wallet, but there's something we have to know. There is cheap flight company. (Relatively) cheap flights do exist! That's Iceland Express. It connects Reykjavik to eight different cities. I could go from Alicante (wow), there are two flights a week (wow)!
to be continued
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