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Tee Lor Su
This page is a supplement to the Umpang & Tee Lor Su Home page.
If one could drive up to Tee Lor Su and look at it from a viewing platform it might not be so impressive - just another chocolate box waterfall. As it is the site is inaccessible to vehicles. The route from the nearest road, which is a dirt road only negotiable by off road vehicles, is along a muddy Elephant trail. The journey through the forest take about an hour. xmascard.jpg (127642 bytes)At the waterfall itself the visitor is surrounded by forest.
There are no souvenir shops, no ice-cream kiosks, no litter bins - no sign of man's presence whatsoever. Pictures here
"Tee Lor Su" apparently means "Black Waterfall" in the language of the local "Gaolian" hilltribes. The Tourism Authority of Thailand claims that it is one of the six best waterfalls in the world in terms of size (height) and beauty (sic). Also that it is the best in South East Asia, again in terms of size and beauty. The waterfall is famous in Thailand and almost all well educated Thai will have heard about it. Outside of Thailand it is virtually unknown.
Objective facts about Tee Lor Su are hard to come by. There is very little information about it in English. It is regularly feature in Thai language, outward bound, travel magazines, but objective information is sparse. What remains a mystery is the precise dimensions of these falls. The best authority the authors could find was a chap in the Tak office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). He said that Tee Lor Su was estimated to be 100 metres high and 500 metres across. The figure of 500 in breath does not mean a solid volume of water. Tee Lor Su is a fall of the segmented type, 500 represents the the breadth of the various cascades and plunges. These figures are only approximate. The TAT official claimed that the precise dimensions were not known.
It would seem that Tee Lor Su has never been surveyed.
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