Skaftafell National Park

Skaftafell is Iceland's second largest National Park after Thingvellir.

Skaftafell covers an area of about 1,600 sq km which spreads over three valley glaciers of Skeioararjokull, Morsarjokull and Skaftafellsjokull on the southern fringes of Vatnajokull, Europe's largest glacier ice-cap.

Founded in 1956, the park is one of the nation's distinctive natural attractions of extravagant beauty.

Skaftafell offers vast glaciers, ice-blue glacial lakes with silent icebergs, forbidding crevasses, mute peaks, jagged rocks, gulches, canyons, hanging valleys, shimmering ice tunnels, giant grotesque ice-arches, ice-falls, mountain torrents, roaring glacial rivers, ice-cold mountain streams flowing in ravines with luxuriant vegetation and wild flowers, waterfalls, basalt columns of most unusual configurations, rare birds and plants, birch forest, lush vegetation, and many other natural marvels have created this tellurian spectacle.