VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is known for its landscapes, including gorgeous, majestic waterfalls below.

1. Pongour Waterfall

Located about 50 km south of Da Lat resort city in Lam Dong province, it is regarded as one of the most beautiful and imposing falls in the West Highland with about 40 km in height and over 100 m in width.

Surrounded by 25 ha unspoiled forest, the waterfall slips into numerous sandstone from top to bottom. Its massive water powerfully falls down seven floors and produces sounds that can be heard from kilometers around.

The landscape around the waterfall is still primitive. If visiting the site in rainy season between April and October, tourists can see water flowing down into a big pool. In dry season between November and March, tourists can admire huge rocks at the foot of the waterfall, where they can set up a camping site to enjoy the cool atmosphere and the stunning beauty of the waterfall.

Tourists can easily conquer it by climbing the cascade. Going through cool water and standing behind the strong flow of water is an unforgettable experience.

In dry season, especially from end-October to November, visitors can see a breathtaking view of nature when wild sunflowers are in bloom and turn the path leading to the waterfall into light yellow color.

2. Ban Gioc Waterfall

Ban Gioc Waterfall is one of Vietnam’s most impressive natural sights. Located in the northeastern province of Cao Bang, the falls are 30 meters high and 300 meters across, making Ban Gioc the widest – but not the highest – waterfall in the country.

The falls occur on the Quay Son River, a beautiful jade-blue body of water, flowing through a pastoral landscape of rice fields and bamboo groves, surrounded by limestone pinnacles.

Ban Gioc is the world’s fourth biggest border-crossing waterfalls. It is attractive for its picturesque painting of blue sky, great limestone mountains and stunning rice fields, together with daily life.

3. Tac Tinh Waterfall

Tac Tinh Waterfall is around 30 kilometers to the southeast of Lai Chau Town.

 Locals shorten the name of the waterfall to "Tinh", which means “Love” in Vietnamese. Legend has it that a forbidden love between a man and a woman of the Dao ethnic group tragically ended here when she jumped down the waterfall.

The waterfall starts at the height of 130 meters from the Hoang Lien Son Range and ends with a 100-square-meter lake. To have the best view of the waterfall, you need to climb up for about 15 minutes.

After that you can go back to the lake, where, if you are lucky and it is sunny enough, you can see a rainbow.

4. Thuy Tien Waterfall

Far from 7km northeast of Tam Giang Commune in Dak Lak Province, Thuy Tien Waterfall is a poetic beautiful waterfall. It has many stones of various shapes and sizes, which are heaped up so that they look pleasant to the eyes.

Coming to this place, visitors can immerse themselves in nature; listen to the sound of spring in a wide majestic forest. Atop the waterfall, water falls down onto rocky terraces, creating much white spume, which creates a lively picture, fanciful scenery of mountain landscape of the Central Highlands.

The waterfall consists of three layers. The first one has a low slope with steps; the spring is narrow, flowing gently through foliageof green leaves like flower trellis. Trees' roots fall down look like swinging hammocks. The second layer has rocky tiers. Here, the water creates various small and shallow lakes, where tourists can take a bath. From afar, the water looks like white flowers blossoming under the sunshine of the Central Highlands.

At the third layer, water falls vertically to the ground, creating a deep lake, from which water flows gently, snaking its way through the tranquil jungles.

Together with other waterfalls such as Dray Sap, Trinh Nu, or Krong Kmar, Thuy Tien Waterfall is one of the places of interest for tourists. Thuy Tien Waterfall is a fairy hidden in the green jungle of Tay Nguyen, inviting tourists near and far come to enjoy its poetic beauty.

6. May Waterfall

Thac May (Cloud Waterfall) in Thanh Hoa province is less-known by foreign travelers but it is one of top 10 amazing waterfalls in Vietnam.

It is also called “nine steps of Love” thanks to its glorious nine levers of waters, an ideal place for couples to enjoy nature together.

Nine levels of water are said to be the tracks of nine ferries after they returned to the sky according to a local legend. It is a wild, mysterious and magnificent travel address for adventurers to explore in Vietnam.

7. Elephant Waterfall

Voi (Elephant) Waterfall is located about 25 kilometers southwest of Da Lat City of Lam Dong Province in Nam Ban Townlet, Lam Ha District.

It is more than 30m high, about 15m wide with the water flows make an area be obscured by the very white spray. The waterfall appears as many elephants are swimming together.

According to local legend, the name of the waterfall is derived from a folk story about a beautiful girl, the daughter of the head of a tribe in Joi Bieng mountain region, who had an excellent voice. When she sang the leaves seemed to stop rustling, the bird stopped singing to listen to her.

She had been promised a handsome, brave and strong young man as a husband, the son of the head of a tribe in the neighboring region. But one day, the young man must say good bye to his lover to be fighting at the front. She waited for long time but the young man did not come back.

She went to the place where they made the promise and began singing with ardent and mournful voice. The B'ling birds were moved by her voice. They flew far away to seek out information and then flew back to inform her that the young man had died in battle.

However, the girl did not accept this bitter truth and she sang to call her lover until she got exhausted and falling down. The flock of elephants that had listened to her turned into stone. The waterfall named Lieng Rowoa Joi Bieng, means the waterfall of elephants that turned into stone before the ardent and faithful love.

The waterfall which associated with this faithful, woeful and majestic love is recognized as a national landscape. The transparent water flowing through granite mountain sides looks really spectacular, especially when the waterfall is illuminated by the brilliant sunlight, seven-colored rainbow will appear.

8. Silver Waterfall

Thac Bac (Silver Waterfall) is located about 12km from the centre of Sa Pa town.

Lying at a height of 500 meters overlooking Sapa valley, in sunny days, Thac Bac can be seen like a white dragon looking down from the sky from Ham Rong Mountain.

Silver Waterfall is formed by sources of water from the Lo Sui Tong mountain peak. Coming to Thac Bac travelers will sink into the cool weather and grandiose landscape of mountainous surroundings.

9. Bao Dai Waterfall

Bao Dai falls (also known as Jráiblian falls) is named after Vietnam’s last emperor.

It’s said that Bao Dai (1913-1997) would stop here on his numerous hunting trips to the region, during which he and his royal entourage would hunt wild tigers and elephants, among other magnificent animals that are now almost entirely gone from the forests and mountains of Vietnam.

These enormous, thundering falls are far from the beaten path and the area has only recently been developed as a tourist site. So far, development has been subtle and tasteful, perhaps suggesting a new approach by the Vietnamese tourism authorities.

The modest entrance leads into peaceful landscaped gardens with a couple of attractive wooden houses. Stone steps and pathways through sheer rock lead down to the waterfall.

Dense jungle foliage and screaming cicadas create a thrilling and exotic atmosphere as you scramble over boulders covered in roots, brush aside vines, climbers, creepers and other epiphytes, to reveal the first sight of this huge and powerful waterfall.

At around 70 meters high and over 100 meters wide these falls are the biggest and most spectacular in this list. The cascade of muddy water drops straight down over a wall of volcanic rock. At its base one or two local fishermen cast their lines into the rock pools, looking fragile and delicate in the presence of the towering falls.

9. Yang Bay Waterfall

Located in Khanh Phu commune, Khanh Vinh district of Khanh Hoa province, Yang Bay waterfall, also known as Thac Troi or the Waterfall of the Gods, is home to grandiose falls and dense forests attracting many tourists in recent years.

On the height of 100m above sea level, YangBay fall lies in mountain ranges and dense primitive forests with a cool climate around the year.

The waterfall, about 45 kilometers from Nha Trang, is not only beautiful, but has a legend that goes along with it.

The story goes that on the top of 900-metre high Gia Kang Mountain, a great many very smooth stones were laid down, creating a playground for the gods and fairies.

Among the fairies, the youngest often disguised herself as a countryside girl. She was then adopted by a village couple.

After some time, she fell in love with a local man named Cau Son. When informed about their love, the gods became angry and turned Cau Son into a rock. This did not discourage the fairy, however, who decided to stay and guard the statue of her beloved.

So the gods took out their anger on the people of the village by drying up their water. Blazing heat along with dried up rivers and streams was making the place uninhabitable.

Then two frogs appeared, a mother and her baby frog. Searching for water and scorched, the mother frog jumped around until she was overcome by the heat. The baby frog cried over his mother until his last breath.

The gods were so moved that they cried. Their tears created two waterfalls, one large one and one smaller, in the places where the two frogs died.

When the water touched the the statue of Cau Son, he was brought back to life and reunited with the fairy.

To commemorate the great services of the frogs, people decided to name the great waterfall as Yang Bay or Waterfall of the Gods, and the smaller one as Yang Khang or the Child of the Gods, and a third as Ho Cho or the Mother Waterfall.

Compiled by Pha Le