Trip to the Erawan Falls

I fell in love with the amazing Erwans falls on my visit to the Erawan National Park in Kanchanaburi. Our small group consisted of Pae ( Thai), Charlotte ( Dutch), Charlotte's Friend ( Dutch), Particia ( French), Bruno ( Brazil), Joannah ( Poland) and myself.

We first took a taxi to the Southern Bus terminal and then caught the bus to Kanchanaburi. ( approx 3 hours). Then we hired ourselves a Song Teaw( Pick up truck with 2 lines of seats in the back used kind of like buses ) for our day in Kanchanaburi. ( for travel to park and back)

The Erwan park is the most visited national park in Thailand and its obvious why, once you have visited yourself. The waterfall is the main attraction and though I am no stranger to waterfalls as we have many in Sri Lanka this one was special.

The Erawan falls is a 7-step waterfall meaning that there are 7 small
waterfalls together making up the Erawan falls. What was really special for me about these was that each of these pretty much came with its own pool :) yeah each of the steps had a pool that was awesome to swim in and not that deep. ( unlike most waterfalls in Sri Lanka where they are too deep and claims lives ). The shallow pools and crystal clear waters makes your day !!!

At one of the first steps there was fish that was used to being hand fed... and zillions of them would just come up to your hand even jumping over each other to get to your hands or rather to the snacks they expected the hand to hold.

We did take a dip in the water at the top of the waterfall in what I remember was the 7th step :) Each of the steps were unique and had a different feel toit. Some were taller than others, while others were more spread out over rocksand cascading.

After the falls our next visit was to check out a near by cave...after a 30min Song Teaw and another good 20 min or so climb ( I was huffing and puffing all the way) we got to the most amazing cave. The guide showed us around using a lantern ...this cave was huge and we were explained that once a whole village used to live inside it.

I really loved the earthy and ancient feeling inside that save ( although there were man made walk ways inside) ... it made me feel as if I was thousands of years back in time. Nature always seem to amaze us with its beauty and diversity.

If not for the 400/- baht that you need to pay to enter the park as a tourist, I would love to visit that place many times during my stay !!! There is certainly much more to see in Kanchanaburi and I'm sure I'll be visiting the at least one more time in the next few months.