Mork Fa Waterfall (Namtok Mork Fah)

The Mork Fa Waterfall took Julie and I by surprise because prior to our trip, we had never heard of it. Plus, I somehow had this preconceived notion that it was going to be a dinky waterfall. But once we looked upon the real thing, we were impressed with its height and double-barreled characteristic. We've been told that this one falls 60m (though we think it was more like 30-40m) and flows year round. And for a waterfall that we had never heard of going into our trip to

From the car park, we walked roughly 15-20 minutes along a shady, mostly flat, forested trail. A little over half-way to the main waterfall, we noticed a much smaller waterfall that was signposted as the Ob Noi Waterfall. There was a short spur trail leading closer to this one, but I don't think we lingered too long for this.

Once we got to the main waterfall, we had to contend with obstructions by both cliff and trees that conspired to keep the falls from being completely visible from the trail (though we were still able to see most of it). So we went beyond the official end of the trail, crossed the stream, and went right up to the side of the waterfall where we got decent profile views. We tried to get direct views, but it was too misty to get clean photos.

We saw a few people swimming or cooling off here. And I'd imagine more people would do this had it been a warmer time of year.

Given the inexact Thai-pronunciations being mapped into the Romanized alphabet, we've also seen this waterfall spelled as Mok Fah, Mok Fa, or Mork Fah.

Directions: From what we were able to tell as we were driven here on an escorted tour, we went north of Chiang Mai until we got to Mai Malai-Pai Road.

Overall, the Mork Fa Waterfall was around 70km away from Chiang Mai. It took us roughly 80 minutes to get there from Chiang Mai.

Another thing worth noting was that about an hour to the west of the falls was the Pong Dueat Thermal Area. Here, there were hot springs that were both in use as well as boiling ones that could only be looked at.

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The car park

Hiking on the trail to the falls

The Ob Noi Waterfall along the way

View of Mork Fah Waterfall from the very end of the trail

Direct view of the falls with rainbow from just on the other side of its stream

Profile view of the Mork Fa Waterfall avoiding its mist

Dipping our feet in the geothermally heated waters of Pong Dueat

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Sweep from bottom to top of the tall, but busy waterfall


Zoomed in sweep from the base of the falls to its top with hint of a rainbow at its base

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• December 28, 2008

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