The Baatara gorge waterfall (Balaa gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon.

The waterfall drops 255 metres (837 ft) into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.

Discovered in 1952 by French bio speologist Henri Coiffait, the waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by the Speleo club Liban. The cave is also known as the “Cave of the Three Bridges.”

balaa pothole

balaa pothole

How to reach there:

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

balaa pothole

balaa pothole

balaa pothole