dynjandi (fjallfoss)

Little hiking is involved. Many waterfalls that lead into each other, it's very beautiful, a great stop on the ring road

Such a beautiful, remote place. We visited in September and it was chilly and damp but so pretty. We hiked all the way to the top where you can get a fine view of the falls and fjords. It's a good idea to have a raincoat/shell in Iceland and the spray from the falls definitely makes this a needed item! There's some interesting red clay up there as well as cairns made my travelers. There weren't many people when we arrived but then a tour bus came and we had company.

Very nice view. Nice and exciting road (SUV ou 4 wheelk drive is recommanded). But maybe too many people.

Be prepared for a little hike: curiously enough, to reach Dynjandi (& for the best view) you have to go uphill. Picnic tables at the bottom (where the parking is) are quite handy after climbing up to the waterfall & coming back down.

My wife and I visited this waterfall during our trip to Iceland in August and it was wonderful. There's a lot of tourists at the site in the summer due to the easy access from the main road so arrive early to find parking and avoid the crowds. Climbing up to the top part is a bit challenging to anyone who is not part mountain goat, but not impossible.

You can grow old trying to count all the spectacular waterfalls in Iceland... but this one deserves special note. Dynjandi is spectacular from a distance, but even more so up close after making the hike up the trail from the car park. The trail is not difficult, but will most likely be muddy and requires appropriate footwear. Like all places in the Westfjords, don't be in a hurry to get here, or to go on to your next destination. Take your time on the winding roads, for safety's sake as well as to enjoy every breath-taking view that comes your way. While this waterfall (and the Westfjords in general) is definitely off the normal beaten path of the Ring Road (route 1), it's definitely worth it to venture to this place!

at this time of the year, there are almost no other visitors, you have the waterfall to yourself. Good explanations concerning the place, well marked path all the way up - highlight of our tour in the West-Fjords

Dynjandi ("resounding" - which it does) is an absolutely stunning waterfall. We saw it on a misty, rainy day and it was fabulous. Must be even more gorgeous on a sunny day. We were misled by a lesser waterfall on the way down to the fjord, but once we got down the hill it was clear that this was the one we were looking for. If you're driving from the ferry drop-off point at Brjanslaeker to Isafjordur it's only just off the main road (and WHAT a main road!), and well worth taking the very short detour for.

After a day driving with our SUV through the absolutely gorgeous fjords of the Westfjord area, we thought it couldn't get any better. However, we had heard that the waterfall was pretty special, and we knew we were getting close.So we turned around a corner and saw a waterfall that was a little average. We thought "Hm, maybe we're getting a little too used to them" so we got out, took a picture and drove on. Around another bend... and then WOW, that's when we saw Dynjandi!It's a massive waterfall, going down a massive ledge, but in a more cascading way. You can park your car at the bottom and then walk up to the pool where the biggest of the waterfalls comes down (with lots of blueberries on the way).If you're in the area, you can't miss it anyway because the only road leads past it, but it's well worth the drive!

The falls themselves are interesting and well worth the long drive to reach, but a trip to Dynjandi is as much about the getting there and the staying there overnight as it is about the falls themselves. There's no way to reach Dynjandi that doesn't involve some fairly rough roads through some fairly spectacular scenery (snow, even in August and views out over the fjords when you are on top of the mountains). If you're coming at Dynjandi from the south, especially if it's from Latrabjarg and not directly from the ferry, be prepared for a long drive and keep an eye out for what must be about the most swimming pool in Iceland a couple of fjords south of Dynjandi which is also a popular stop for Icelanders in the know (we really wish we'd stopped but we weren't going back).The falls themselves are interesting and worth a stop because of their unusual shape and will at the very least liven up your photo album. However, for us the best part was really the campsite -- it's effectively at the foot of the falls and while our guidebook warned it was noisy, by early August it's a pleasant, low rumble and we had no trouble sleeping. There were some non-biting flies, but watching the sun go down over the fjords, hitting the falls with the last rays of light... it was magical.

Dynjadi falls is indeed quite off the tracks of normal iceland tourists, but it is worth it! Both the setting at the end of a fjord, then its beautiful structure and shape and then the little number of tour buses going there. Compared to the famous falls in the south - you are almost alone! The roads are not really recommended for the little rental cars (though not rated F!!) but the place is magic and stunning!

So beautiful to be front of the nature and it is experience you will never forget. Dynjandi or sometimes called Fjallfoss is one of most incredible place in Iceland, and all the Vestfjord. It is different from every other parts in Iceland. I have vent to this part og me land every year last 45 year´s, and is born in Haukadalur Dýrafjordur.

The mostly gravel roads to get to Dynjandi are vertiginous in the extreme - but it's worth every white knuckle moment.At 60m (198ft) wide, and with a 100m (329 f) drop this is the largest waterfall in the west Fjords. Visible from miles away, it is a superb (and very noisy) cascade followed by a series of other waterfalls, each one different. The steep and occasionally slippery climb up the path beside these waterfalls to the base of Dynjandi itself is hard work but oh, so worth it. For me this was the most impressive and beautiful waterfall of our whole trip.

I do not know how it looks like in summer, but in may it looked amazing. First you arrive through several snowy fjords with incredible landscapes. then you start to go down to reach the ocean level to at the end discover this incredible waterfall. It was for me the best one I saw in Iceland. Yes, better than Godafoss or Gullfoss! We got the chance to see it during sun-setting that gave it some incredible ligth effects. We spent the nigth camping there (cmaping was closed and we were the only one there) to have later a walk around. Great memories and worth to go to the Westfords for it.

We stopped as part of our tour as you can drive right up to it. It was partially frozen when we saw it in January, so didn't attempted to climb it seeing the most rare sight in Iceland is a hospital or medical facility! Looked beautiful - would be nice to see it in full flow in the summer. Very photogenic surrounded by rugged (then snow covered) country.