Day 2: Around 3pm, our guide told us to leave everything behind on a hill & covered it with garbage bag in case of rain. I just brought my camera & water filter cos the guide said only took 1 hour to go down into valley to see the Julan Fall. However, I forgot to bring my headlamp (so did everyone else) cos his 1 hour is 1 and a half or 2 hours hike to me as my walking pace is different from local folks. Descending to the steep valley is a big challenge to us cos there are too many streams & super muddy trail making it hard to walk properly. The tiger leeches are everywhere. Big population of leeches there due to the wet condition in the steep valley.
When we saw that majestic giant waterfall, all the sweat & pain were nothing. Compared to the New York Empire State building (381m), this waterfall is 280m, about 100m shorter than that building in NYC. (top to bottom, based on GPS & our guide & friends went to the top of waterfall before to calculate the height of waterfall)!!!
When we were going down slowly to the bottom part of waterfall, we hardly could stand properly due to the super strong wind created by this "monster". Thanks to the overnight heavy rain in the plateau. the waterfall became a real giant monster. But then, we realised that we could not cross that Julan river to the 2nd tallest waterfall in that area - Eastern Julan Fall.....cos the water current was super strong. The guide warned us not to fall into the water or else nobody can save you.
......to be continued.
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