Snaedalsfoss Waterfall

The water is only half of it. From the ground at the foot of Snaedalsfoss the view opens across the valley opposite, and that is what most people end up photographing. The approach makes the place feel private. A gravel driveway runs between the holiday cabins at Bragðavellir and carries on to the fall, so you arrive through someone's farmyard rather than off a coach park. Guests staying in the cabins walk down to the water. Everyone else drives in and has the fall to themselves, which is not the usual experience at an Icelandic waterfall you can reach by car.

• No facilities. There are no toilets and no drinking water at the falls, and none nearby.
• The last stretch of road is rough. It turns rocky towards the end and an AWD takes it without trouble.
• There is no marked car park. Cars pull off at the side of the track near the fall.
• The walkway is unfinished. Metal planks are still being laid along the route, so step carefully and leave them where they are.
• No information board. Nothing on site explains the fall or the route to it.

Everyone arrives by car. The way in is the gravel driveway that runs between the holiday cabins at Bragðavellir and carries on towards the fall. The last stretch is rocky, and an AWD handles it comfortably. There is no marked car park at the end, so cars pull off at the side of the track. The rest is on foot, over ground that is still being built up into a walkway. Watch where you put your feet.

Better: daylight, and dry ground while the walkway is under construction.

Avoid: arriving in the dark.

The site is open at all hours, but the last part of the route runs over metal planks that are still being laid, and you want to see where you are stepping. Crowds are not the problem here. The fall sits off the main road on private farmland, and people who come have come on purpose.