After the long cold day of traveling we were told the third day of the trip would bring even worse weather. We were making plans to stay close and do little driving but luckily the weather was okay and we were able to push on to Egilsstaðir and seeing Hengifoss. Hengifoss is yet another waterfall, day three and I was already getting a little tired or bored with waterfalls, but the hikes in are always great so how can you resist.

We set off as early as humanly possible for the six of us, it seemed to take at least 2 hours each morning for us to all get it together and on the road... yup slow moving traffic in the morning. There is little between Þórshöfn and Egilsstaðir which is good because the hike into Hengifoss was about 2 hours. The days are a lot longer here now though which means we could be out until half passed nine or so. The roads were a little slippery and slow moving at times, the Icelandic roadways especially in the remote areas are very bumpy and not exactly maintained. Some highways are labeled as "F" roads which means unless you want to get stuck here and pay for a tow truck do not even think about trying it! The rest are pretty much enter at your own risk!

We arrived at this cute little cabin A-frame and the owners were very sweet and gave us good directions to the falls as well as some other interesting points to see in that area such as the biggest forest in Iceland. Egilsstaðir is one of the major industrial areas of Iceland with aluminum plants. There are a lot of foreigners in the area from many different cultural backgrounds. Icelanders are not so >willing/able/or desire to work these plant jobs so immigration and "importing" of labourer’s is very common. Anyways, the man at the cabins told us a tale about trolls that use to live in the area and they would come down the hill side and steal children at night. The path that the trolls took into town is forever carved into the rock face. We found the beginning of the path leading to Hengifoss but quickly lost it again, it was as we were calling it off-roading most of the way. 4 of us went one way and ended up at the base of the waterfall and the other 2 ended up at the top. The angles of the falls made it impossible to see each other so for about 3 hours we had no clue what the others were up to. As it turns out they were sitting at the car for close to an hour waiting for us!

On the way back to the cabin we saw what I like to call a hobbit house so we stopped to take photos. These were traditionally used for storage of potatoes etc. I had been dying to see inside one so Eva tried the door and low and behold it was open and still being used for storage. There were multiple varieties of potatoes and jams in jars around the room. I know we are really bad but there were a ton of potatoes so we kind of took a few to try with dinner.... I know, I know it is bad to steal, but we were a group of curious tourists and after all the door was unlocked! The potatoes were unlike any I have had before. They were white with red inside. At first we thought they were gone bad, but we boiled them anyways. They were so great, sweet almost. That brings me to the end of yet another day of the trip.