Ninety seconds on Skaftafell
Birch woodland, outwash desert and two glacier tongues sit inside a single afternoon of walking.
A wooded moraine bench between the Skeiðarársandur outwash plain and the Vatnajökull ice cap. It was a national park in its own right from 1967 until it was folded into Vatnajökull National Park in 2008. Trails climb from the visitor centre to Svartifoss.
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