I like TripAdvisor and always look up travel information from TripAdvisor. Kuang Si waterfall in Luang Prabang is listed as the 2nd most popular attraction in Luang Prabang based on travelers ratings which led me there to witness the miracle turquoise water, which I thought the color only exists in China (visit the review here: TripAdvisor).

Kuang Xi waterfall is about 29km from Luang Prabang town and it takes 30 minutes to reach there with tut tut. Along the way to Kuang Xi waterfall, we passed by villages, padi fields and hills which kept us occupied while enjoying the cool breeze on the hill. We bumped into the small kids carried big basket of woods on their back walking by themselves on the street without any adults. I’m so regret that I missed the opportunity to take a picture of them. One of the kids is so small that she’s probably just 4 year old with a huge basket on her back that makes her body looked even more tiny. She’s so cute and tiny that I can’t seem to take away her picture from my mind.

So if you’re really into photography, you might want to consider renting a bicycle or motorcycle to travel around the villages.

The scenic view that kept us occupied on the way to Kuang Xi waterfall.

Villagers were fixing the road, I think.

You can’t escape from paying wherever you go in Laos. Entrance fee to the park is 20,000 kip per person, which is USD2.2 (or MYR 8 ). It’s only about 5 minutes walk from the entrance to the waterfall.

We were so amazed when we saw the first pool at the bottom of the hill. The water is crystal clear and it’s really turquoise blue! I was so excited and asked Don if we should jump into the water now. Don was like “Not yet… we’re just at the foothill, there’s still long way to go…”.

Is it? The water was so clean that it deceived me to have an impression that we have reached the top hill.

We continued walking and more and more cascades came into sight. There were several 10-15 foot cascades from one turquoise blue pool to another. Looked exactly like Huang Long!

After about 5 minutes walk, we came to the largest pool. There is a tree with a huge branch sticks out to the pool just perfect as a platform to jump into the water. A rope was tied on the tree for the nature lovers to swing to the pool. Isn’t it a place of paradise?

I felt so sorry that I didn’t get to snap any photos of Don swinging into the water as my camera ran out of battery :-( . I hope the photos that I snapped with his crappy cellphone are clear enough, haven’t looked at them yet.

This is the only picture with both of us in it and the most important picture with the 180 foot main waterfall. When taking this last photo, the battery level indication in my camera kept blinking. My heart beats accelerated each time the battery blinked. I quickly got one of the tourists there to help taking picture of us and I made sure he understood that the battery power was almost died off so not to waste any power, I even told him not to turn it on until we finished posing. It was so dramatic and thanks god we got this final picture.

Lesson learned: Charge the battery everyday.