Wonderful Waterfalls

9/21/2006

Today was probably the most impressive day of the trip so far. After breakfast we hiked for about 45 minutes to this incredible waterfall (or collection of waterfalls). As you can see in the picture, this was immense and quite unbelievable in person. The even better thing was that we were able to swim anywhere we could get to. There was nobody supervising us and no delineations telling us where we could not go like there would be if this was in the USA. If you could climb to a certain point, then you were free to go there at your own risk. It was amazing how much power these waterfalls had.

After hiking back to the camp, we trekked for 3 hours to a very rural Karen village having a population of about 150. The trekking was extremely muddy. It was pretty funny when people slipped and fell. Once we made it to the Karen village, we unloaded our bags and walked to another spectacular waterfall for a swim. I didn't bring my camera, so unfortunately I don't have any pictures. This waterfall was not as massive as the other one, but it was still great. There was even a little cave that you could walk into and feel the huge stalagtites. These waterfalls are the types of things that I would expect to see in movies.