Asia Waterfalls (China, Japan, Thailand, and India)

Asia Waterfalls: Where Ancient Culture Meets Natural Beauty

As we were growing up, we've come to learn that Asia represents the Far East - a mysterious continent on the other side of the Pacific Ocean across the international date line, where customs, history, and nature seemed so distant and different. Only glimpses of what's there were revealed to us by our parents and relatives, but it remained a place that seemed strangely familiar yet strikingly unfamiliar. Yet being ethnically Asian, we knew that seeing the continent was only a matter of time.

Now after having been to a few countries on the continent, we've learned much about our roots, about who we are, and about the Nature that sustains its residents while drawing visitors from around the World. You knew with Chinese and Japanese landscape paintings (some of which left lasting impressions on me while I was growing up), movies highlighting the landscape (e.g. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), and even landscape photos and drawings seen in many Thai and Vietnamese restaurants here in LA that this vast continent is rich with Nature. And where there's Nature, there must be waterfalls!

The continent is vast and includes many countries and nationalities. For the purposes of this website, we're considering the continent to stretch as far southwest as India and the Himalayas, as far southeast as the Southeast Asian countries (like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar, etc.) and their islands, as far west as the furthest desert expanses of China along with Asian Russia, and as far northeast as Siberian Russia as well as islands just to the south such as Japan. No question about it, this continent is huge so our humble sampling of what we've seen merely scratches the surface of what's out there.

But indeed, we still go by our usual MO of using waterfalls as the excuse to go to certain parts of a country. And in doing so, we've encountered giant waterfalls shared between countries like Detian Waterfall as well as sacred waterfalls like Nachi-no-taki with temples and pagodas fronting its surrounding picturesque landscape. We've even seen rainforest waterfalls split into numerous sections like Thi Lo Su. And throughout these waterfall-centric excursions, we've also encountered ancient temples, fingerlike karst mountains draped in mist, wildlife quite unlike anywhere else in the world, and even volcanic features yielding hot springs as well as crater lakes among others.

We hope we can continue to go waterfalling in Asia while learning more about the world and ourselves along the way...

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ASIA WATERFALLS

Below are the Asia Waterfalls that we have been to. Click on a region or a waterfall for more details about them.

China (中国): As the most populous country in the world with the oldest living language and a history that dates back tens of thousands of years, it is certainly the centerpiece of Asia as well as home to our ethnic roots. The country is massive so there's definitely a very wide variety of waterfalls amongst the countless many that exist, and we'll show you the ones we've been fortunate enough to visit.

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Japan: Known as the land of the rising sun, there's much to be said about the Japanese culture as well as its history and ability to thrive in the modern economy. We're also great fans of Japanese food and we're also fascinated by the architecture and the efficiency in the way things get done best exemplified by their second-to-none public transportation system. However with all the Japanese are known for, an underappreciated aspect is its nature, and within these pages, we hope more love can be given to the country's nature through the waterfalls we've seen.

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Thailand: This leg-of-lamb-shaped kingdom is a popular tourist destination and has many distinctive aspects about it like the Thai massage, the spicy Thai food, and the Muay Thai style of kickboxing (which you might see applied in mixed martial arts today). The country also boasts beaches and coral reefs (e.g. Phuket, Phang-nga Bay, Phi Phi Island), temples (too many wats, chedis, and prangs to count), jungles, mountains, and of course, numerous waterfalls. And it's the waterfalls that has allowed us to explore some of the country's most popular as well as its less touristed sites.

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India: This dynamic country can be both confounding yet fascinating at the same time. The same can be said of waterfalls as you're bound to find some of the continent's grandest as well as most religiously significant here. With waterfalls being relatively unknown and unvisited outside of the country's denizens, it's also an opportunity to see the country as its genuine self while getting a healthy dose of mind and body, which waterfall lovers always crave...

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Reader Submissions: We can't possibly visit every single waterfall in Asia. Fortunately, there are readers kind enough to share their knowledge and experiences by writing up their own guides for those waterfalls that we haven't been to.

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MORE INFO

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