Iceland Day 9: Dynjandi, Bjargtangar (2017)

We drove an hour and 15 minutes to Dynjandi waterfall.  Once you get there, there’s a short hike up to the main waterfall, along which you pass several smaller waterfalls.  The main waterfall is widely considered to look like a bridal veil, and you don’t really appreciate the size of it until you’re staring up at it.  The water drops almost 300 feet, and as it goes down doubles in width.

From Dynjandi, it was a 2 hour drive along the fjords to Bjargtangar.  It was another drive in and out of fjords, and we’re pretty sure we saw whales in some of them, although it’s very possible we were still excited from the ones we saw the day before.

Bjargtangar is part of the Latrabjarg cliffs, which are known for their bird watching.  Although Bjargtangar itself is little more than a small lighthouse, it’s technically the western-most point of Iceland, which also makes it the western-most point of all of Europe.  There are walking trails that go a decent way along the cliffs, although we only went a very short way, since we knew we had another long drive ahead of us (curse the fjords!).  All said and done, if you don’t have time for this one, it’s not the end of the world, but it is a fun bucket-list, fun-fact thing that you can accomplish.

It was a 5 hour drive to our camping card site for the night – Hvammstangi.