Phurin Waterfall

On Sunday I got to go on an adventure to Phurin Waterfall. The waterfall is in a national park to the south of Surat Thani. To get to the waterfall Collin and I went on his motorbike and it took about an hour and a half to get there. On the way we got lost because the map only has the major streets and pictures on it, and the signs stopped being in English! We realized that we missed a turn when the road suddenly got bad. We had to dodge huge potholes and ride on the side of the road. We finally pulled over to try and get directions and the villagers kept giving us conflicting directions. So a few of them decided to hop in thier truck and escort us to the waterfall. We would have never found it on our own since you had to take about 3 different turns and drive down a dirt road. Once we got to the waterfall Collin started to laugh at me because my face was brown from all the dirt the truck kicked up.

The waterfall was beautiful! It had three levels and each level had giant pools of water. The rock looked like it was lava rock that had been hollowed out to create the pools. Collin and I spent about 2 hours climbing to each level and swimming in the waist high water. It was a lot of fun even though the water was freezing! Sadly I didn't get any pictures because the battery for my camera was dead :( but I found a picture of a similar waterfall online:

Next time I'll be sure to bring my camera so I can get pictures of the real waterfall.

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