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HLJODAKLETTAR ( "The Sound
Cliffs" or "The Cliffs of Sounds" or "The Echoing Rocks")
 
Hljodaklettar (sound cliffs or cliffs of sounds or echoing rocks ) are a bizarre looking group of crater plugs, depicting basaltic columns, in different positions, creating all kinds of patterns. The loose material of those craters, was washed away, by catastrophic flood waves originating from the big icecap "Vatnajokull" (Glacier) in the south. Hljodaklettar is a cluster of caves, the remnants of volcanic activities carefully grinded and polished by the river "Jokulsa a Fjollum". People
think they hear a river running inside the rocks.
In
Raudholar (Red Craters or Reddish Hills), north of Hljodaklettar, the
remnants of craters are visible. Across the river lies
"Hallhofdaskogur" (a small wildwood), noted for its vegetation. The
river
has again formed a canyon little north of
"Raudholar" and
continues as such down to Asbyrgi, a distance of some 9 km. This
stretch of the canyon is narrower and not as deep as the upper canyon.
Many terraces and hollows along the river have rich
vegetation,
especially on the east side.
Karl (Old Male) and Kerling (Old
Female) are enormous blocks of rocks,
just south of Hljodaklettar. Across the river is Trollahellir ( The
Cave of Trolls (Giants)) The myth
has it that one night these Trolls
where on their way home but where to late, and the sun caught them with
it's first rays of day, so they turned into stones, just outside their
cave. Karl is easily the hight of 20 full grown
men, but Kerling is
smaller
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