Sai Din Waterfall Sindoung Zonná
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  The Sai Din waterfall is located in Northern Arakan, Myanmar | |
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| Coordinates | 20°52′55″N 92°38′51″E / 20.8819472°N 92.647485621°E |
Sai Din (Burmese: စိုင္းေဒါင္ေရတံခြန္; MLCTS: sin:doung taraing.,pronounced [sai dàʊɴ]) waterfall is located almost 20 kilometer away from Buthidaung, in the Mayu Frontier District, Arakan, Burma. This waterfall flow to the Mayu river, which is life blood of Mayu Valley. The height of the beautiful natural Sai Din water-fall is 220-ft.
History edit
The Sai Din waterfall in Rakhine’s north - western Buthidaung Township has a complicated history dating to the early years of independence. Every government was given promise that to built a hydropower station as well as resort. Some are tried to do. The 76.5MW facility was first proposed by Prime Minister U Nu’s government in about 1950 but work was halted in 1952 after a foreign engineer was killed by Communist Party of Burma insurgents.
In 1988, the State Law and Order Restoration Council SLORC junta announced a resumption of work on the project but it was postponed three years later for unknown reasons.
In April 2009, when the junta was known as the State Peace and Development Council, it said the project would go ahead and a resumption of work was announced by the Ministry of Electric Power-1 in 2010.
In a statement released on March 18, 2010, the ministry boasted that the project would generate an average of 220 million kilowatts a year and provide extra power to all Rakhine towns on the grid as well as supplying electricity for the first time to 10 towns in Buthidaung.
Little has been heard about the Sai Din project since then. Attempts by Frontier to contact anyone involved in the project have been fruitless.
The independent Rakhine news agency, Narinjara, speculated in April 2009 after the junta announced a resumption of work at Sai Din that it was a ploy to attract votes for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party in the 2010 general election. Whether there was ever a genuine intention to proceed with the project is unclear.
Geography edit
The Sai Din waterfall is about 20 miles north-west of Buthidaung Township. It is located on Saing Doung hill. Saing Daung hill is stretch out from Mayu Range. Mayu ranges is a essential natural resources of Mayu Valley. Between Mayu ranges and Sai Din, Mayu river is sits along.
Sai Din waterfall is famous for its seven storeys attractive natural shape. It is block-type and catarect waterfall. It based on enlarge stone plates. In mayu ranges, there are many other cascades. But Sai din is a state largest water fall and also attractive. People can climb up to three storeys easily but the rest are difficult to climb up without technical help. The falling water is flow through Saingdaung creek to Mayu River.
A beautiful and authentic place. Nice Views for Landscape Photographer. If you go there you will be get adventure experience. You can go there by boat from Buthidaung town.
You can watch how locals fuse the bamboo on the river. You can ride raft, locally called Búr. If you want to swim you need to be ready to do it in clothes.