River rafting at Te Lor su

The river rafting at Um-Pung

      Today we would like introduce you another tourist activity. It is the river rafting from Um-Pung to visit the Thee Lor Sue waterfall where full of the beautiful natures and many tourists want to go. You can go to the Thee Lor Su waterfall by car and river rafting but in the rainy season you can go there by the river rafting only, that take about 2 hours. It is a nice traveling because you will through and see many of the beautiful natures.

        The river rafting has many levels (information click here) and at the Um-Pung to the Thee Lor Su waterfall is only the level 1 to level 2 that is not too dangerous for rafting.

        The river rafting in the present, they use the rubber boat that is safer than the bamboo raft which used in the past or about 15 – 20 years ago. Besides, the rubber boat is more durable and do not break easily too.

        For today, we raft in the Mae Klong creek which is the beginning of the Mae Klong River. This creek runs pass the forests and many cataracts and ends at the Tham Nam Mud (the ducked water cave). This ducked water emerges and flows to Sangkhlaburi District through the dam, Khao Laem. Then released from the dam into the Khwae Noi River and combined with the Khwae Yai River at Kanchanaburi province, which we call Mae Klong River and flows into the Gulf of Thailand at last.

        On the way of rafting, you will see many beautiful waterfalls, forests and cataracts such as the Mo Ki Do, Um-Pung forest which full of the big trees.

        Besides, there are the steep cliffs along the both sides of the river that named the “blood cliff” because it has the red minerals which like the blood leaking out from the cliff. In the past, many animals came to eat and the people also used it as a medicine but nowadays the blood cliff is only a history name.

        When we arrived at the point where we must walk about 10 km. to the Thee Lor Su waterfall, we have lunch together before go there. ……Moo Hin