The park covers a rocky plateau gently rising from the west covered in dry dipterocarp forest, which culminates in sheer cliffs dropping down into the narrow Mekong valley. Displaying a fair amount of information on the park’s natural and historical background, the visitor centre sits near the cliff’s edge in front of a bumpy car park paved by mother nature.
Dark skies over the natural car park.
From here visitors can walk right up to the cliffside to enjoy the view. Keep small children close at hand here; no guardrails stand between you and the edge of a 160-metre drop. A nearby trailhead gives way to a few concrete steps leading to the base of the park’s namesake cliff: Pha Taem, which translates as “cliff painting.”