Bouncing Around Southern Iceland (Part 1)

Location: Skogafoss

Iceland is not a particularly large country. It's about the size of Kentucky and includes ~300,000 people. The majority live in the capital, Reykjavik, located on the Southwest part of the island. Here is a map to provide some reference - the star shows where the various destinations are in each post.
On Saturday we hopped in a car and drove about 3 hours away to a village in Southern Iceland called Vik (the only town on the Southern tip). Along the way, we quickly learned that what passed for a town on the map was actually a farm. We drove past a town sign which reported the population to be 7. I wonder how they elect a mayor...

While Vik was our terminal destination, there were a few interesting places to stop by along the way. The first was Skogafoss, which has some amazing waterfalls running strong this time of year with snow melt. Here is a picture taken right when we got out of the car. I don't know how tall it was, but the people below provide a sense of scale.

NOTE: I've purposely not shrunk the resolution down on any pictures but if you want to see its full quality you'll have to click on it.
Even cooler, there is a trail which runs behind and then up alongside it. The water was coming down pretty hard and kicking up a lot of mist once we got close. This made it harder to take pictures, but its one benefit was that it created rainbows everywhere. It didn't matter where we were standing...there was always a rainbow staring back at us. Here's a pic taken along the trail I just mentioned.
This was actually taken at another location about 30 minutes away from Skogafoss, but I can't remember its name. At the top there is this rock formation with a face overlooking the main waterfall, and I thought it looked like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie.
We also hiked up a hill to get a better look at the entire ridge line, and here's what we saw.
I particularly like this one because it gives a sense of just how green everything is here. You know that old schoolyard fact about how the Vikings purposely mis-named Iceland (which is actually very green) and Greenland (all ice)? It's true.

More gorgeous pics of Skogafoss are here.