Mokfah Waterfall

This past weekend ISDSI held a retreat for staff and students in the DoiSuthep National Park, near the Mokfah Waterfall. We arrived on Friday afternoon and went straight to the waterfall. It was beautiful! The water was deep enough to swim around in, but just shallow enough to feel safe. If you stood in between the two streams of water, you could feel the force of the waterfall, and the wind whipping the mist into the air. You could go behind the waterfall, climb up on the slippery rock and dive under the stream of water. It was so much fun! Gigi summed it up well, "It was the kind of waterfall I've always dreamed of."

The whole weekend was a lot of fun. After the heavy rains on Saturday, the waterfall became much more forceful and I felt less secure playing in it. I also went on a hike to a bat cave, but decided not to go in because it smelled so intensely of Guano. Sunday morning we went through a guided hike of the bamboo forest. We saw 2 day old bamboo shoots that were already 3 feet tall. We also saw banana trees, mushrooms (if ants are around the mushrooms, they're edible), and a poisonous tree that will make your skin burn if you touch it and will make you blind if you get the poison in your eyes.

The weekend was a lot of fun, but also exhausting.