Nam Tok Mae Klang is the most visited waterfall in Thailand. It’s quite easily accessible, being just inside the park entrance of Doi Inthanon National Park. There is a car parking lot a few hundred meters downstream from the waterfall. There are picnic tables there right next to the river and pushcart vendors waiting to provide lunch. We had broiled fish, that I suspect was trout -and quite likely from the river next to us. The picnic area is near to the bridge you see in the beginning of the video, with the man fishing below. There are actually two men fishing -but my camera was not able to pick up the second man standing in the shadows.
This part of the park is at lower elevations and is tropical, warm and humid. Bring some water with you if you go hiking in this area, or at least some Baht to buy water from the vendors. There is a public restroom there, also…that’s where the heliconia in the video was growing!
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Filmed: October 15, 2010
Nam Tok Mae Klang (Mae Klang waterfall) is located near the entrance gate of Doi Inthanon National Park; a lower and warmer region of the park. Swollen with the heavy rains of October 2010, the Mae Klang river is squeezed as it flows over the narrow waterfall -in a particularly violent display of mother nature’s fury. We could feel the ground vibrating standing at the nearby trail.
This waterfall is 30 meters high according to sources I found online, though it appears to be quite short and squat. The best sense of scale can be found at approximately 3:20 in the video -where you can see the waterfall with the trail and sign in the foreground.
There is a parking lot downstream near the bridge with food vendors. Sitting on a bench next to the river we ate grilled fish for lunch -which I suspect came from the fisherman you see below the bridge!
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