Baatara Gorge Waterfall - Cave of the Three Bridges — The Baatara Gorge Waterfall or Balaa Gorge Waterfall is a waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon. During millions of years the waterfall had eroded a three leveled large dizzying sink hole, an open cavern some 255 meters deep. Three natural bridges! The waterfall drops 837 ft into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.
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Discovered in 1952 by French bio-speleologist Henri Coiffait, the
waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by
the Spéléo club du Liban. The cave is also known as the "Cave of the
Three Bridges." Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the
village of Balaa, and the "Three Bridges Chasm" (in French "Gouffre des
Trois Ponts") is a five minute journey into the valley below where one
sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and overhanging a
chasm descending into Mount Lebanon. During the spring melt, a
90–100-metre (300–330 ft) cascade falls behind the three bridges and
then down into the 250-metre (820 ft) chasm. A 1988 fluorescent dye test
demonstrated that the water emerged at the spring of Dalleh in Mgharet
al-Ghaouaghir. (wikipedia.org)
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