During the rainy season on Samui it is good to visit various waterfalls. These days you can see more powerful and beautiful streams. water than usual time. And you can also see some waterfalls that dry up and constitute a miserable spectacle.
Of course, you should not expect greatness from the waterfalls on Samui Niagara Falls, and do not even compare them with those that I seen in the north in Kamphaeng Phet (100m) and on Doi Inthanon (280m). But I was just going to walk to the Hin Lad Waterfall a long time ago. therefore chose the “window” when the sun looked out after a few days there were torrential rains threatening to go to the Flood.
The content of the article
- 1 Hin Lad Waterfall
- 1.1 Thai temple
- 1.2 Do not go along the bed to the waterfall
- 1.3 Way to the waterfall
- 1.4 Hin Lad Waterfall
- 1.5 The Lost World
- 2 Where is the Hin Lad Waterfall and how to get there
Contents
Hin Lad Waterfall
Hin Lad Waterfall (Hin Lad) is small, and here the essence is not so much in the waterfall, as in a walk through the jungle. It is beautiful the opportunity to be in silence, swim in cool water, enjoy nature. But it is worth considering that to go to the waterfall 30-40 minutes in the forest and a little up, which is not for everyone rest. Do not forget about the heat, which does not add lightness to this event. I got there in about 20 minutes, and back even faster, but it was almost a run.
Thai temple
At the very beginning near the road, there is a backwater with fish (you can feed) and gazebo. If we go along the bridge over the river, we will see thai temple It differs from others in some modernity and white color. But perhaps the feeling of “modernity” appears only because of novelty of buildings and shiny metal handrails bridges-roads surrounding the building.
Hin Lad Waterfall on Samui
Buddha statue near the temple
The temple is surrounded by bridges and shiny handrails
The territory of the temple
No need to go along the riverbed to the waterfall
If you need to the waterfall, then go to the right of the gazebo and go up the stairs (there will be a pointer). I was a little wrong and first went along the riverbed, it is not a good idea, for to go had a few hours.
Well here so after work lie down
Who is the first, that and sneakers
Thai family is cooling
Way to the waterfall
Realizing that along the channel I would not get there, and by evening, I returned back to the very beginning of the first pointer. Looking around, I saw the stairs. Giving a symbolic 5 baht to the donation box and rising I went down the stairs to the real jungle. Path several times forks, but it seemed to me that all the ways still converge and go in parallel. In any case, it is worth to stick to the river and go along it On the way you will meet trees with huge roots, creepers, palm trees, dense tropical vegetation. Still in many Reports have been told about spiders, snakes and lizards, but I have not met no one! But I didn’t really want this, and therefore having read horror stories, walked intently at his feet and shy away from each branches, suddenly there is a poisonous spider.
The bridge leads to the temple, and the waterfall to the right along the ladder
We give 2 baht for the entrance
Path through the real jungle
But in some places there is garbage
The path goes all the time along the river
Tree with hair
We climb through the roots and stones
A tree with very interesting roots
Hin Lad Waterfall
Near the waterfall sits taets, sells water and some drinks. Price Adequate, although he hand his box here. Here you can swim. As I understand it, in arid time to approach the waterfall is easy, there are photos where people stand right next to them this waterfall falls. But after the rains make it very problematic, the course is very wide and deep.
For tired travelers Thai sold water
In the distance you can see the waterfall Hin Lad
Hin Lad Falls on long exposure and approximation
However, I wanted to come closer, so on the right, just where the Thai I sat on the stones and the path went on. There is such a stone the bag is small, here through it. It may well be that not in rainy season on this path go, I do not know. Just a few more minutes and from the waterfall separates only the bowl with boiling water. Now it does not pass, but again, in the dry season, it seems to be small. Here, a little difficult to photograph, because the water dust instantly wets the lens glass.
Stone bag to the right of the riverbed
Hin Lad Falls closer
lost World
But you want even closer, right? Therefore, do not stop and climb there, where people usually do not climb. Most likely do not climb, because they pass that very bowl into a ford, take pictures directly next to the waterfall and it seems like it’s done. Generally I again took the right and climbed up. There is a big stone that girdle creeps, and here it moved, nothing complicated, literally a couple of meters.
We have to climb on the vine, clinging to the stone
And then I discovered a secret oasis! Hin Lad falls to the left, right another small waterfall, and a sandy beach in between. I’m not a bit I am not exaggerating, it is precisely the feeling of the lost world in me and arose then. I spent there at least an hour wandering from the stone to stone – True, I was still trying to crawl over to Hin Lada, and almost happened. It’s nice to come here with your friends with a tent for a couple of days and have a picnic.
Secret Glade with a sandy beach and a waterfall
Bonus – another small waterfall
Near Hin Lad, in the space between the stones
Where is the Hin Lad Waterfall and how to get there
Entrance to the waterfall is free.
The easiest way to come here is by bike or car. You can also sit down by minibus and get to the intersection where Immigration is located Samui From here on foot to the entrance to the temple grounds and paths to waterfall to go 1.4 km.
At the entrance, where the playground and the gazebo, you need to take the right from the riverbed, see the concrete ladder and go along it. Just next walk along the path along the river, not paying attention to the ramifications. Go 20-40 minutes depending on the speed. Waterfall can not pass, the path on it ends. If you saw some kind of waterfall, but the path went on, this is not Hin Lad, it’s just a cascade.
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