西格尔杜格利乌弗尔——隐藏的青绿峡谷

Story & Folklore

Sigöldugljúfur — the 'Valley of Tears' — is one of the most remarkable natural spectacles in Iceland: a short, deep canyon where dozens of small waterfalls line both walls and pour into an intensely turquoise lake below. The canyon was created by the same glacial floods that shaped much of South Iceland's highland terrain. The remarkable water colour — electric turquoise, as vivid as the meltwater at Brúarfoss — comes from glacial flour suspended in the Tungnaá river. Sigöldugljúfur is in the Highlands, accessible from the Landmannalaugar F-road. It is relatively unknown compared to other Iceland highlights, and the experience of standing above the canyon with its dozens of simultaneous waterfalls is disproportionately stunning.