Speaking of the trail from the official car park, the walk started off flat and relatively wide through a dense jungle area. It eventually crossed over a long bridge over a gorge containing the stream that would ultimately feed the waterfall. And beyond the bridge, we eventually reached a section with a lot of steep stairs descending down towards the overlook of the uppermost waterfall, where the trail stopped. Some of the steps were so steep that it reminded Julie and I of some of the temple steps (like the Wat Arun in Bangkok) where we could literally be on all fours to climb and had to sit and scoot on the way down (very scary).

Yet despite all this, the trail was popular (i.e. very busy) as well as concrete almost the entire way. So that enabled some women to do the walk in bedroom slippers or even high heels. Not sure how they were confident enough to do the steep steps, but I guess different strokes for different folks, as they say.

In our attempts to get that better view (like the one that the Tourism Authority of Thailand [TAT] showed; photo on the left), we talked with staff with the help of our guide to speak the local language. I somehow got the feeling that there really was a way to see it, but neither our guides nor staff were willing nor able to let us get that view. I guess that's the way it rolls sometimes even though I was bumming we couldn't see the falls in its entirety.

And finally, you might see the first word spelled in many ways thanks to the inexact way of Thai pronunciations being romanized into English text. Thus, we've seen the falls spelled (in addition to Haew Narok Waterfall) as Haeo Narok or Heo Narok or Hew Narok.