World of Waterfalls Blog

Dudhsagar Falls (pronounced “dood-SAH-gur”; a sign here also spelled it “Doodh Sagar”) is certainly one of India’s more popular waterfalls with foreigners given it’s within a 6- 7-hour day trip…

…furious after realizing there was no hot water (I took a cold shower), no hair dryer, no filtered water, toilet cover broken, no hand towels, and overall the room felt quite dirty and subpar…

Dumdam Falls was a bit of a surprise waterfall for us. We didn’t expect to see it going into nor did we even know it existed. But it was significant for us for only one reason…

Nohkalikai Falls is one of the taller waterfalls in India. It makes a dramatic free leap from a fairly well-forested drainage into a rocky base accompanied by a pretty blue…

Elephant Falls is the British name of what the local Khasi people once referred to as Ka Kshaid Lai Pateng Khohsiew (or “Three Steps Waterfalls”) since the falls actually…

Bishop Falls and Beadon Falls are two impressively tall falls within the city limits of Shillong that managed to maintain good flow (which really surprised us especially considering…

Kynrem Falls is another one of the tall waterfall near Cherrapunjee or Sohra in the Meghalaya state. What’s notable about this waterfall is that it had fairly decent flow whereas…

Nohsngithiang Falls is sometimes referred to as the Seven Sisters Falls due to the presence of several strands of cascades (some guy envisioned seven of them, I guess) coming…

At 6:30pm, the plane was in a holding pattern. The captain announced that there was a thunderstorm in Mumbai (probably influenced by the cyclone), visibility was a 3km, and the runway was wet. The…

Subhash seemed like he was in shock as he sat silent, and then got out of the car. From that point, he was swarmed by villagers (one of them hitting him repeatedly). And it was then that I started…

There were a lot of firsts about today’s hike to Eaton Canyon Falls. It was the first time I was leading a hike with co-workers to expose them to some of the local waterfalls…

This itinerary was a follow-up to the Oregon trip that we had done about 5-6 months prior. Back then, Mother Nature threw a wrench into our plans with snow in the mountains. So we had to make last-minute cancellations and retreat to the coast…

Falls Creek Falls is one of a handful of impressive waterfalls along the Wind River Road north of Carson and the Columbia River Gorge in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of…

Big Creek Falls is roughly 10 minutes further east from the Curly Creek Falls turnoff along Route 90 (Lewis River Road) in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest…

Curly Creek Falls is supposed to be the famed waterfall that had the rare distinction of having natural bridges spanning its falling watercourse. Unfortunately when we were there in…

Watson Falls was a very tall 272ft columnar free-falling waterfall that kind of provided us with a contrasting waterfalling experience with the neighboring Toketee Falls gracefully falling…

Lower Oneonta Falls is one of those waterfalls where you have to go on a bit of an adventure to see. Now why go through all the trouble if the Columbia River Gorge is chock full of waterfalls?

Salt Creek Falls was definitely one of the more impressive waterfalls we’ve seen in Oregon. We could tell that it was very popular because it was so easily accessible in addition to its impressive…

Vidae Falls was definitely one of the easiest waterfalls to visit in Crater Lake National Park, mostly because it was right by the road. It was one of the few waterfalls in all our waterfalling…

But when his wife came over, she said, “You should’ve seen him. He was pouting all trip long because his tripod was too big to fit in a carry-on and I wouldn’t let him bring it…”