Chasing Waterfall: Nepal’s Most Scenic Secret Waterfalls

Nepal, land of soaring Himalayas and man of legendary history, is no exception to the rest to be proud of the world’s most romantic waterfall. Human beings are so involved in earth into Himalayas but seldom on Nepal’s magnificent waterfalls. Secret waterfalls, deep forest and the giant gorges’ jealously kept secret, are much more exquisitely finer than the world’s largest known familiar falls. Continue reading to learn about the top ten secret Nepali waterfalls of awe to include in your travel guidebook.

1. Rupse Waterfall

Rupse Waterfall of Myagdi district is one of the most scenic but less visited waterfalls of Nepal. Waterfalls fall to a depth of 300 meters, and divine misty heavenly landscapes dominate. Waterfalls extend up to great mountains and large valleys, and royal landscape up to Beni-Jomsom. Rupse Waterfall is paradise for an adventure and nature-loving individual and wild and free in nature.

Although located on the roadside, Rupse is unspoiled and travelers are fortunate to enjoy tranquility there. It would be the perfect time to find out if super-class monsoons were present because water would be totally pouring down waterfalls. To witness water falling downwards with the sun behind to trek down would be worth everything. So, the Nepali restaurants are so minimal that will be found to encompass rolling serving home food amidst the beauty of nature surrounding the view of the place.

Highlight

• Nepal’s highest and most beautiful waterfall, 300 meters vertical drop nature made.
• It is ocated at strategic location on Beni-Jomsom road and hence not that difficult for the tourists to visit.
• It is also most beautiful at monsoon when waterfalls are at best form with the vertically downward flowing water.
• It is also going to be surrounded by mountain and gorge scenery and hence going to make it beautiful.
• You also have restaurants around where you can go and have Nepali local food so that you may not feel hungry.

2. Hyatung Waterfall

Nepal’s highest 365 meters Hyatung Waterfall is located in the midst of Terhathum rhododendron forest. Literally it’s an unexplored and inaccessible region because it’s literally off and one has to trek through rhododendron forest and rice fields in order to reach there. As it is situated near the waterfalls, the excitement of hearing the roaring sound of water from a distance coming one’s way adds another thrill to the sparkling vision to enjoy. The hike to the Hyatung water fall itself is an adventure.

It is rolling hill trek, river hiking, and boulder jumping along rock face. And then to witness water trickling down the face of the cliff in certain creeks is an eye candy. The silence of the surrounding jungle is one that one gulps and one that is alone, and it’s the total retreat of any human mind who does not wish to be disturbed and alone.

Highlights

• Nepal’s 365-meter drop is breathtaking. One must trek through beautiful paddy and jungle pathways to obtain its best, and even then it would be an experience.
• Go there during monsoons to view it at its best with water gushing full steam, thereby putting nature drama on its altar. NPG is a quiet, serene haven for the solitude seeker.
• It is paradise for photographers and nature lovers alike because its grassland and green landscape have no section of which its photographer cannot capture a photo.

3. Jhor Waterfall

An hour from Kathmandu, Jhor Waterfall is city day trip getaway from dust and sun. Shivapuri National Park area waterfalls are summer heaven from the heat. With drizzling sprinkling cool cold water over mossy rocks, it also creates small ground level pond, where cold plunge heaven is. In the greenery and quiet, it’s locals’ hangout now too.

It is convenient to reach with nearby driving distance from Kathmandu and simple walk. Jhor Waterfall is photographer’s paradise, perfect picnic destination, and closest trekking option. Jhor temples and shrines give the visit its religious flavor. Monsoon is the ideal season for visiting Jhor as the waterfall is in its full vigor that time. Nature-permitted and culture-permitted, the locale makes Jhor Waterfall the perfect destination to relax and adventure out. Best tips It’s an in-reach close-off resort from Kathmandu as it’s a serene oasis. Since it’s in Shivapuri National Park area, it’s ideal for a day trekked picnic tour.
Best time is monsoon as autumn is colorful. It even possesses a natural pool to swim around it, which is an excellent soak after your trek to relax and rejuvenate yourself in peaceful atmosphere.

4. Bahundangi Waterfall

Bahundangi Waterfall lies deep in the remote eastern Jhapa district’s rural area of the countryside, an earthly paradise surrounded by dense jungle and greens.

It is not a popular waterfall in the world because unmapped to locate and hence ideal place for introverts. Countryside Bahundandi seemed to be in village is the manner in which the visitors are exposed to the host culture and greeted because that of host place. Vegetation ceases and offers tranquility of walk-through by the melodies of birds. Rainy months, or autumn months, have a decent degree of spookiness as rain falls on tops of rocks to set up a scene of movie-screen-like landscape. Jungle attire where mythological residents of big animals, whose presence make it a perfect spot for bird watching, inhabit. Bahundandi Waterfall is perfect for nature experience, photography, and meditation. Its spirituality solaces individuals if they are okay with avoiding city life and adopting Nepali tranquility.

Highlights

• The off-the-beaten treasure of Jhapa district is a sheer delight. It is akin to enjoying one-hour stroll in the countryside with a dash of rural existence in its spirit.
• Amidst dense forests teeming with wild life in the middle of its backdrop, it is a nature reserve forest at large. It is busiest during the monsoons, with the falls in full flow and there being the scenic backdrop.
• The tranquil surroundings are ideal for meditation, and the location is best suited for shoots.

5. Ghandruk Waterfall

Ghandruk Waterfall of Annapurna range offers beautiful cascades amidst Himalayan landscapes. The trek offers Gurung village landscapes, paddy fields, and rhododendron forest that offer Nepalese memories to travelers.

Ghandruk Waterfall is only beautiful during morning/afternoon time since morning light/afternoon also offers views towards the waterfall.

Glaciertintic blue glacial water forces the tourists to take a bath in cold water in a bath shower and relish a Gurung-type of dinner even being entertained by villagers of local villages around and about the place. It is ideally located for adventure, nature, and culture and adequate for hunting and peep-around or handy with a way-through trip by using half of the peak, i.e., the Annapurna peak.

Highlights

• Lit up with divine natural beauty along the rim by lounging in peaceful Annapurna valley, autumn is able to reach its highest point by walking home so that it can catch the sight of Nepalese landscape.
• Luring Gurung village and landscape of undulating hills are on offer.
• Trek Tames breathtaking Himalayan Mountain scenery to create a photographer’s heaven for a fewer.
• Dawn or dusk will be the appropriate time to visit with light effects being divine, breathtaking landscape.
• Apart from the nature component, there is a culture exchange program where the guest is immersed in the host culture and society.

6. Tatopani Waterfall

Legendary Tatopani waterfalls and Tatopani hot springs of Mustang are an oasis in Mustang’s rock-hard environment that pervades.

Water cascades down boulder rocks as foamy waterfalls and cool splash of drink to trekkers who fight their way through to climb up to Jomsom and Muktinath.

Whirling wind blowing over the valley adds din to the waterfall sound to provide a moody but open atmosphere. It is on a hiking holiday trail, a holiday destination then, where the raw energy of nature and centuries-old hot mineral water therapeutic opportunities are on offer to him. Most Tatopani Waterfall trips are an expedition into nominally therapeutic hot mineral water. Cold water-fall and hot mineral shock is not normal sensual luxury. Green rock-cliff-facing land with more view and lily-green-like color leave land in the same but very beautiful raw state. Autumn will be perfect for the trek because the weather is warm and trek condition also rules to such a massive level of perfection that even in rain is very perfect for trekkers of the trek for Mustang trek.

Highlights

• Breathtakingly situated in style-setter Tatopani hot springs, the waterfalls are actually a virtual pit stop of relief for Jomsom mountain trekkers.
• The otherworldly beauty of something as ordinary as such stark contrast of cold running water and hot spring water is one that one never quite got use to, as it were.
• It’s encircle by Mustang wild landscape, and serene and scenic to behold.
• Open vista of the clear surrounding hills in autumn is the ideal time to ascend up there.

7. Simba Falls

Simba Falls, Makwanpur district of Nepal’s untouristy secret concealed from view, isn’t bustling although nature beauty of this sort plays.
The water gently cascades over boulder outcrops into a series of natural pools in expectation of the caress of freshness.

Rolling hills and jungle treks will be call upon to reach Simba Falls. Leaves, humming of birds, and chattering streams shape the path forward without fatiguing nature lovers and trekking walkers. Monsoons are the only ones privilege to witness autumn since it’s all due to other rains that make it a dangerous and even deadly thing. Otherwise, though, it’s quite scenic with daytime and dusk lighting with water reflecting like a mirror and trees that have waterfalls built into them as well. Simba Falls isn’t report to be naturally well-known but is a cultural site and a religious site in Aboriginal spirituality. It is almost as remote as it gets, and together they make for an off-the-beaten-path paradise and an otherwise world-class tour destination to behold Nepal’s off-the-beaten-path natural gem.

Highlight

• One such off-the-beaten-path Makwanpur district off-the-beaten-path gems is where there is such a breathtaking multi-tier waterfall,
• Natural lakes are the height amazing to dive into and get soak with the sting of the season time under the heat.
• Travel to the destination itself is a journey of the jungle and hills and nature resort which is scenic and thrilling.
• Simba fall is biologically rich land, and nature lovers would be in paradise here.
• Monsoons when the waterfall would be fill with water and the region would be green with dense cover and wild life would be the ideal time to visit.

8. Dhungesanghu Waterfall

Peacefully situated in peaceful Ilam hills is peaceful off-the-tourist-track Dhungesanghu Waterfall. There is a waterfall cascading over rocky face before plunging into the mirror pool of water below, ideal for a summer’s dip on a sweltering day.

Waterfalls are access by descending peaceful tea gardens and forest with peaceful views of rolling Ilam countryside. Isolation of the waterfall is as such that it is a trekker’s paradise where some peace and solitude in the midst of nature are relish. Dhungesanghu is sunrise magic when sun rays fall over mist water and build a supra-terrestrial realm. Its border of flowering rhododendron forest is another charm to invite. Day hike, world hike, or splash crystal-shine water are all excellent weekend getaways at Dhungesanghu Waterfall. Its beauty and serenity are nature lovers’ heaven in untouched Ilam landscape.

Highlight

• Ilam district’s waterfall paradise and natural basin below the fall is sufficient for bath.
• Tea garden walk and forest walk is waterfalls walk, and destination point is no more thrilling than walking.
• One feels delighted to spend time in silence and stillness in morning when recess has arrived, and spiritual ambiance is nature.
• One enjoys taking baths in ice-cold water and reciting prayers in the stillness of nature.

9. Gopte Waterfall

Helambu valley’s Gopte Waterfall is the most picturesque waterfalls falling off over Langtang National Park trekking paths. It falls straight into rock gorges and therefore a land of airy fantasy no less enthralling. It is a trek, which can be initiate through the rhododendron forests, yak grazing pastures, and ancient monasteries to proceed further on to Gopte to enjoy an adventure to catch a glimpse by chance fertility nature and culture at work.

The otherwise idyllic monsoon rain takes its own league for itself at its best and blows in a crazed fashion over mossy rock boulder. The silence of the falls itself can hold its own for some time, and paradise for nature lover and photographer. All of the trekkers on the way to the Gopte Waterfall, and even the waterfall, is one of the off-the-beaten-track tourist spots of Helambu trek as well. Nature at its best, peace, and adventure, off-the-beaten-path waterfall in itself an adventure.

Highlight

• Such a paradise of nature so concealed is Helambu valley Langtang National Park’s waterfall.
• Hill climbing and forest and peaceful walks in mixed landscapes.
• It is bestd with cliffs and overcast weather, and they just take refuge there time and time again.
• It is best during its post-monsoon months when the runoff will be great and is a delight in the midst of colourless weather footage.

Conclusion

All of the wild waterfalls offer Nepal’s wild beauty and the combination of an experience for nature lovers, bird photographers, or adventure seekers. Bird’s eye view, adventure, or peace of mind if you need any of them from these waterfalls. They take them one after another to a Nepalese nature palette in its true sense. Adventure, tranquility, or breathtaking landscape – whatever your heart desires, these untapped waterfalls offer them aplenty. Get set, put on your trekking boots, and be ready to witness Nepalese nature at its best. Contact us today at Happy Mountain Nepal, Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok. 

FAQs

1. Why are Nepal waterfalls unique?

Nepal waterfalls are inaccessible in far-flung villages, far-off forests, gorges, and Himalayan mountain ranges. They are inaccessible to mass tourism and hence untouched and serene.

2. When is the best time to view these waterfalls?

Summer monsoon months, i.e., June to September, are ideal to see waterfalls in natural state. Places are hardly found which are scenic during autumn months, i.e., October to November, with blue clear sky and greens all around.

3. Is the waterfall accessible through a plain trek?

There are not many like Jhor Waterfall, close to big cities, where hardly any walking needs to be done. There are not many like Hyatung Waterfall or Gopte Waterfall where valley and hill and forest walks for hours have to be done.

4. Is there any of these waterfalls that have swimming pools?

Some waterfalls such as Jhor Waterfall and Dhungesanghu Waterfall have natural pools to swim. But check the water condition and flow prior to taking a dip.

5. Are the waterfalls safe to visit?

All waterfalls are safe provided one visits them cautiously. There are strong water currents and slippery paths during monsoon which are risky. Put on proper trekking shoes and ask locals.

6. Are there restaurants or lodges near these waterfalls?

General waterfalls such as Tatopani Waterfall and Rupse Waterfall have restaurants and lodges near them. Non-access waterfalls such as Bahundangi Waterfall may ask you to carry your food and camp with a guide.

7. Do you need a guide in order to view these waterfalls?

For accessible waterfalls, no guide is required. For distant locations like Hyatung Waterfall or Simba Falls, it is advisable to take a guide to traverse tough landscapes and foreign trails.

8. Are waterfalls culturally significant or religious?

Yes, some of the waterfalls such as Gopte Waterfall are close to ancient monasteries and holy sites. Waterfalls are also believed to be spiritually energized by individuals, and some sites are holy to conduct rituals and meditation.

9. Are the waterfalls good to include in a trekking tour?

Yes! It is possible to include Ghandruk Waterfall on an Annapurna trek, or Tatopani Waterfall on a Jomsom-Muktinath trek. All the waterfalls are possible add-ons on treks already completed.

10. What does one carry while one goes to these waterfalls?

The essentials are rainproof trekking shoes, a raincoat (if one is going during monsoons), insect spray, snacks, a refillable water bottle, and a camera to appreciate the breathtaking view.