So we biked an hour and half further out into the country side from Khun Yuam to see the Mea Serin waterfall (left). It is one of the tallest falls in Thailand and as you can see quite beauiful. I was surprised to find that we were the only visitors for the day- after so many cram packed tourist sites it was a nice change. The Thai park police to excel at exploiting us farangs though. Even as the only people in the whole park, the lone ranger managed to ticket us the outragous 200 bhat a person (its 20 bhat if you are not white), though his wife made him give us 200 back, so it was "half price." There was nice view point, but we were disappointed to discover no obvious way to get down to the base of the falls. This led to 2 hours of trail blazing and motor biking down rocky dirt roads which led to some really remote cool Karen villages with very confused villagers, but not falls. We eventually gave up and headed home.
BUT THEN...on the way back, we stopped to take a break at this little roadside shelter. There was a trail with a thai sign and a small picture of a waterfall and about 15 mins down the trail there was this AWESOME waterfall with at least four tiers of falls and jets of water and caves- it was incredible!!! I wish I had a picture of the whole thing, but here are some pictures of us playing in the first tier before we left the camera behind and climbed up.
Steve is inside that stream if you look closely
As you climb further up it only get cooler, and better yet- no park fee to get there. haha. A really happy discovery and great end to the day!
So we biked an hour and half further out into the country side from Khun Yuam to see the Mea Serin waterfall (left). It is one of the tallest falls in Thailand and as you can see quite beauiful. I was surprised to find that we were the only visitors for the day- after so many cram packed tourist sites it was a nice change. The Thai park police to excel at exploiting us farangs though. Even as the only people in the whole park, the lone ranger managed to ticket us the outragous 200 bhat a person (its 20 bhat if you are not white), though his wife made him give us 200 back, so it was "half price." There was nice view point, but we were disappointed to discover no obvious way to get down to the base of the falls. This led to 2 hours of trail blazing and motor biking down rocky dirt roads which led to some really remote cool Karen villages with very confused villagers, but not falls. We eventually gave up and headed home. 
BUT THEN...on the way back, we stopped to take a break at this little roadside shelter. There was a trail with a thai sign and a small picture of a waterfall and about 15 mins down the trail there was this AWESOME waterfall with at least four tiers of falls and jets of water and caves- it was incredible!!! I wish I had a picture of the whole thing, but here are some pictures of us playing in the first tier before we left the camera behind and climbed up. 
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