This morning was a slow one, as we had breakfast overlooking the Mekong river, then spent the rest of it wandering around town some more, taking in the ambiance of this town.
At 12:30, we met Ute and Klaus, and took a Tuk-tuk to Kuang Si waterfalls, about 30km south of Luang Prabang. The tuk-tuk whisked us past small villages and through rainforest to the park entrance. I have to say, we've seen lots of waterfalls of various distinctions over the years,
the tallest, the most water volume, etc but these are probably the most beautiful. As we followed the stream upwards there were a series of smaller 2 -4 metre steps, and and below each was a lovely aquamarine pool, which you could swim in, and all enshrouded in trees. After 3 or 4 of these steps was the main attraction, a huge 25 metre fall crashing into its own turquoise pool. As we circled around, we realized that there was bench, and above that a semi-circular cliff (another 30m) with a whole series of falls around it.
We climbed a trail which took us to the section between these falls; en route, the trail crossed another stream, with water cascading across the trail, and from here we got to the bench, which of course had another beautiful pool of water.
Everyone we talked to here agreed that this place was almost too beautiful to be real - that we were living in someone's Photoshop fantasy.
We went to explore another trail, and while crossing some loose logs over a stream, I lost my footing and fell in. No real big deal, but unfortunately, it was deep, and I was wearing my camera! Once I recovered from my shock at falling it, I threw it towards Carole, but alas, it got water logged. I was really bummed. We opened it up and dried it out as much as we could, but it obviously didn't work, so we'll dry it out overnight and hope for the best.
One the way back down, we enjoyed one of the pools, jumping of a tree swing someone constructed, as well as off one of the smaller falls itself.
We headed back to LP for dinner and got ready for our travel day to Vang Vieng tomorrow.
At 12:30, we met Ute and Klaus, and took a Tuk-tuk to Kuang Si waterfalls, about 30km south of Luang Prabang. The tuk-tuk whisked us past small villages and through rainforest to the park entrance. I have to say, we've seen lots of waterfalls of various distinctions over the years,
the tallest, the most water volume, etc but these are probably the most beautiful. As we followed the stream upwards there were a series of smaller 2 -4 metre steps, and and below each was a lovely aquamarine pool, which you could swim in, and all enshrouded in trees. After 3 or 4 of these steps was the main attraction, a huge 25 metre fall crashing into its own turquoise pool. As we circled around, we realized that there was bench, and above that a semi-circular cliff (another 30m) with a whole series of falls around it.We climbed a trail which took us to the section between these falls; en route, the trail crossed another stream, with water cascading across the trail, and from here we got to the bench, which of course had another beautiful pool of water.
Everyone we talked to here agreed that this place was almost too beautiful to be real - that we were living in someone's Photoshop fantasy.We went to explore another trail, and while crossing some loose logs over a stream, I lost my footing and fell in. No real big deal, but unfortunately, it was deep, and I was wearing my camera! Once I recovered from my shock at falling it, I threw it towards Carole, but alas, it got water logged. I was really bummed. We opened it up and dried it out as much as we could, but it obviously didn't work, so we'll dry it out overnight and hope for the best.
One the way back down, we enjoyed one of the pools, jumping of a tree swing someone constructed, as well as off one of the smaller falls itself.
We headed back to LP for dinner and got ready for our travel day to Vang Vieng tomorrow.
2 comments:
Too bad about the camera, hope you can recover the photos. Sue
I'm sorry to hear about your camera.
I've done some research and found some photos of the falls taken on November 20th. You may even be in the photos. I'll email them to you.
Deanna
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