Sen Monorum Waterfall is located at Sen Monorum District in
five-kilometer distance from the provincial town by red soil trail,
Along either sides of the trail, there are industrial plantations like
rubber, coffee and cashew as well. The local people usually meet each
other at Sen Monorum waterfall during the holidays and national
festivals because it closed to the provincial town. Sen Monorum
waterfall has three stages: - First stage: The waterfall has slow speed,
one-meter height and 2-4 meter diameter. - Second stage: During the
rainy season, the waterfall has strong speed, 6-7 meter height and
8-meter diameter. During the dry season, the waterfall has 7-9 meter
height and 4-5 meter diameter. At the waterfall, there is a large space
of resting and enjoying.-
Third stage: Locates at one- kilometer
distance from the second stage. The waterfall has 1.5-meter height
only.Getting to Sen Monorom is difficult, adding to its
off-the-beaten-path allure. From Phnom Penh, it takes about 10 hours.
The first half of the trip, to Snuol, is on smooth, paved roads. Once
you pass Snuol, however, civilisation ends, and the road becomes a
veritable roller coaster ride of bumps and potholes, your vehicle
permanently cloaked in a cloud of red dust for the final five hours of
the journey. Sen Monorom's atmosphere is distinct from the moment you
arrive. It is one of the quietest towns in Cambodia -- just a few dirt
roads and one roundabout set at the centre of a patchwork quilt of
grassy rolling hills. The town is but a blip on the radar and you could
pass it in barely the blink of an eye.
Mondulkiri and Rattanakiri
provinces are both set on a plateau, giving them a distinct climate and
flora from the rest of the country. Note that just as the environment
is oddly unique for Cambodia -- with rolling, grassy hills and valley
rivers -- so are the very mild temperatures. In the cool season, you'll
appreciate having a jacket. While many may have an image in their mind
of Mondulkiri being a heavily forested nature-lovers paradise, this is
sadly not the case. Firstly, the high altitude and cooler weather makes
the landscape more akin to England than the tropics, with low shrubs,
deciduous forests, and vast, open fields spreading across the rolling
hills.
Also, this province and Rattanakiri to the north were
logged to a devastating degree over the last two decades -- mainly with
the cooperation of Vietnamese and Taiwanese logging interests and the
complicity of Cambodian government officials with well-greased
palms.While there has been significant regrowth, visitors expecting
untouched wilderness may be disappointed. The talk is that the
commercial flights that once flew from Phnom Penh to Sen Monorom were
cancelled because so much of the illegal logging could be seen from the
air.Despite this substantial damage, Mondulkiri's beauty is still very
much intact, with patches of forest, picturesque plains lined with wide,
open dirt roads, streams and waterfalls, and minority villages whose
traditional ways of life remains intact.Locates at Sen Monorum District
in five-kilometer distance from the provincial town by red soil trail,
Along either sides of the trail, there are industrial plantations like
rubber, coffee and cashew as well. The local people usually meet each
other at Sen Monorum waterfall during the holidays and national
festivals because it closed to the provincial town.
