Rainbow waterfall is accessible from Sungai Lembing town which
is located 45 kilometres from Kuantan.
Sungai Lembing used to be a busy mining town and housed the largest
underground tine mine in the world - today it is almost deserted
since it is simply no longer economic to continue mining in the
area.
From Sungai Lembing to the starting point of the waterfall take
about 45 minit driving time. In early day we need to take 4WD to
go into the starting point of this waterfall but now can just go
in by car. After parking the car (is one of our camp site too) we
need to cross the river and take one and half hour to trek into
the waterfall.
This water is a bit difference with other waterfall, it is like
a small mountain that has been sliced out a small piece in the middle
and we just follow the sliced out part trek into there. At the end
of the trek, a big natural vertical wall appear in front of us and
75 degree slope on both side grow with small plants.The water is
broken up and reaches the bottom as mist and in the process forms
a rainbow usually between sunrise and 11am when the sun is at a
certain angle. Is this place is a garden it must be the most beautiful
waterfall garden in Malaysia.
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