Skógar, Hikers Bus, Highland of Iceland

At Skógar you can visit Skógafoss, Skóga Museum, Skóga café and take a look at the the beach, which is a long black sand beach.

The magnificient waterfall Skógafoss is the main attraction there and it is said that the settler Þrasi Þórólfsson threw his gold treasure chest in to the waterfall. The chest which was very heavy full of gold ended in a cave behind the waterfall. It is said that people could see one side of the chest out from under the waterfall in the old times. This quatrain was written about the treasure chest:

"Þrasakista auðug er

undir fossi Skóga,

hver sem þangað fyrstur fer

finnur auðlegð nóga."

Tranlation of the poem in modern words:

Þrasachest is full of riches, lies beaneath the Skógawaterfall, anyone that arrives there first, will find riches enough.