This is one of the highest (90m) and most magnificent and easily accessible waterfalls in Vietnam. The views are positively breathtaking – the steep walk up the path to the top of the falls with almost certainly take your breath away (unless you opt to ride the cable car for 5000d).
If you continue walking upstream from the top of the falls you reach ‘Monkey Island’, a mini-zoo filled with monkeys and reindeer living at the usual captive standard (ie poor) of Vietnam. The Damri Restaurant, which adjoins the car park, is cheap and good.
Damri Falls is closed to the town of Bao Loc in an area populated chiefly by Montagnards. To reach Damri Falls, turn off the main highway before Bao Loc as you approach from Dala and follow the road for 18km. As you’re driving towards the falls you can see plentiful tea and mulberry plantations; the high peak off to your right is May Bay Mountain.
Tea and silk (mulberry leaves make up the silkworms’diet) are the major local industries in Bao Loc, and free samples of the local tea can be had a couple of the roadside rest stops in town. There are also a couple of guesthouses here, making it a practical place to break the journey between HCMC and Dalat.
