Rainbow Street · Seyðisfjörður
Eastfjords · Town walk
Explore the colourful street and surrounding town centre on foot. The Walter Mitty road sequence was filmed on the approach to the town, not on Rainbow Street.
- 45 min visit
- 18 km from Egilsstaðir as the crow flies
Walter Mitty’s road into the fjord
The winding descent toward Seyðisfjörður became the longboarding sequence in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty turns the downhill road toward Seyðisfjörður into a longboarding adventure. Visit Austurland identifies the descent as the setting of that memorable sequence. The scene is fictional, while the road is a working route into a living fjord town.
Once parked in town, look back toward the mountains and consider how the approach framed your arrival. Then explore Rainbow Street and the surrounding streets on foot. That town walk is the visit attached to this story; the road sequence covers an area, and this pin does not mark the stunt or an exact camera position.
