Luang Prabang Waterfall

Everyone when they visit Luang Prabang goes to the waterfall, its supposed to be one of the towns highlights. So far on my travels I hadnt seen too many waterfalls and was really looking forward to this one.

After quite a bit of wheeling and dealing we managed to get a tuk-tuk to the waterfall at a reasonable price, its funny tuk-tuk drivers will do anything to get you in their taxi including on agreeing on a price and then changing their mind when you set off. Its annoying and you just end up getting out of the tuk-tuk and changing with him going mad at you.

We also picked up three other travellers, a couple from Ireland and a Canadian lass who was running an NGO in Laos... all interesting people. We made our way down the dusty and bumpy track, an hour later we arrived.

The waterfalls I have to say are the most amazing falls I have yet to see. They are tiered falls but with the top one being what I would class as a proper waterfall i.e. it falls about 50 meters down into a splash pool. The only problem was that because it was low water season they werent as full and powerful as they could be - but hey you can't have everything!

The top was a real mission to get to and after about 30mins of searching for the final fall we stubbled on it, ignored the danger - cliff sign and climbed down. We joined a group of monks who were having a bit of a break from their religious duties - they were also doing some crazy jumps into the splash pool!

After a bit of psyching myself up I did a couple of jumps, saying that they werent too big about 10-15m and the only dodgy thing was that you landed into water and then bounced off the bottom of soft sand.

The rain started after about an hour of being at the fall so we decided to make our way down. It was really tretcherous and I slipped over a couple of times the journey up took about 30mins the journey down took over an hour.. it wasnt what you would call fun.

Anyway I will leave you with the pictures cos they are much more interesting!

Oh yeah did I forget to say that they had bears and a tiger in the little zoo at the bottom of the fall too - quite a bizarre place to have a zoo.