Djupavikurfoss Waterfall
About the place
Djúpavíkurfoss drops down the mountainside behind Djúpavík, falling around 160 metres in total over a series of cliff steps before the water reaches Reykjarfjörður. What gives it weight is its setting. The falls rise directly above Djúpavík, a near-deserted village on the Strandir coast that grew around a huge herring factory in the 1930s and emptied out when the herring vanished in the 1950s. Today the rusting factory, a single hotel and a handful of houses sit beneath the waterfall. It is right by road 643, so you can see it from the village, and a short hiking trail leads up alongside it for a closer look at the cascade, the fjord and the abandoned works below.
