Although it belongs to Dak Nong, Trinh Nu Waterfall is only approximately 20km far away from Buon Ma Thuot. Along the road, high and continuous mountains, meandering slope, huge coffee gardens and therefore the gently cold weather during this sector will make guests contemporarily forget all troubles in life, place their souls within the nature, within the peace of a fine looking highland area.

Not being an majestic waterfall to have the water flooding from high, Trinh Nu Waterfall is simply a hundred-meter-long a part of Knongno River where the water flows terribly strongly. According to the legend, there was a fine looking Ede girl who was forced to get married with a rich old chieftain by her family. She couldn’t act against her oldsters, furthermore she couldn’t betray her poor lover therefore she jumped into this a part of Krongno River to commit suicide. Because of her faithfulness, the place where she died, Giang (God) built the mounting rapids with many different-sized, ridiculous-shaped rocks to intercept the water flows so that the water has slapped to the rock crying for her for thousands of year.   

In the rainy season, when water strongly flows on the river, many people are able to hear the sound of water slapping to the rock, resounding everywhere in the forest. These guests are fascinated to return to the spring coast to contemplate the imposing, wild landscape of the waterfall. In the waterfall, there are many stones surrounding everywhere the spring. The erect or oblique stones form huge and little teams and meandering cavities. There are several white stones that are pockmarked such as corals, colourful stones lying alternatively that are bright like marbles in the fish lake. The flow is also special as it doesn’t flood from the high however still makes up far-resounding sound flow from the several-meter height, spreading white foam.   

Contemplate and feel completely the beauty of the waterfall, guests ought to walk slowly along the meandering road. As they don’t want to continue, they can stop in cute thatched tents, seeing the immense rock field within the upstream or the massive green forest within the downstream and enjoying the good-smelling grilled meat, hot tube wine beneath the sunshine sunshine, dry wind of this religion.

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