Posted by We drive north from the Dettifoss waterfall. The road north is somewhat worse than the part of the road we had taken from the ring road to the waterfall – it is still ok to drive though so we push further north. Up at the end of the road we get to another little attraction.
There is a fairly big canyon up here called the Asbyrgi Canyon. When you look at the slow flowing river up here it is a bit surprising it has been able to carve such a big canyon. Apparently the river isn’t always so slow flowing – whenever the volcano below the big glacier to the south erupts it create a lot of melted water which occasionally travels violently to the north through this canyon – and when the water flows in those large quantities it manage to carve a canyon surprisingly fast.
You can do some different small hikes around the canyon depending on your time. We only have a little time since we will be doing the north east circuit today so we only go for a little short hike along the canyon to get a little impression of what it looks like.
