Na Muang 2
The big one: eighty metres of water down a rock face, twenty to twenty-five minutes uphill from the first fall. Dry to a trickle in March and April.
Open≈ 0.9 km
An eighteen-metre fall over purple rock, five minutes' walk from the car park, with a pool deep enough to swim in when the river is up.
Na Muang 1 is the waterfall everyone can reach: eighteen metres of water over a wall of purple-tinged rock, five minutes' walk from the car park on a flat path, with a pool at the bottom deep enough to swim in when the river is running.
The colour of the rock is what makes it — a dark violet granite that turns almost black when wet. From October to January the flow is strong and the pool is cold and worth the swim; by March and April it can be down to a trickle over dry stone. A few stalls at the entrance sell drinks and grilled corn.
Free. Ignore anyone at the entrance selling you a ride to reach it.
People at the car park will offer a « compulsory » ride to the falls, or an elephant. Neither is compulsory and we do not send anyone to the elephants — the walk to Na Muang 1 is five flat minutes.
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The big one: eighty metres of water down a rock face, twenty to twenty-five minutes uphill from the first fall. Dry to a trickle in March and April.
Open≈ 0.9 km
Statues of monks, animals and deities set in the jungle 400 metres up, laid out by a farmer in 1976 and left to the moss. A small waterfall runs through it.
Open≈ 2.1 km
The second zipline course, strung above the Na Muang valley — easy to bolt onto a waterfall morning.
Open≈ 2.4 km
Half of these places are easier with a driver who knows which hill road is paved. Tell us which ones you care about and we will build the day around them.