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This isn't a real waterfall, but rather a few heavy rapids on the Ruisseau de Williers, which forms the border between Belgium and France here.

The water is very refreshing on a hot summer day

The origin of the place's name is mysterious. According to some, this name comes from a transcription of the name "Trou du Perdu" (Perisher's Hole). Amidst pine trees, heather, and blueberry bushes, this place represents a steep landscape where the Fourneau stream has shaped a gorge with a waterfall. A little higher up, a waterfall has formed and accentuates the erosion downstream. Above, the stream trickles over a slab of black sandstone. This formed above a significant layer of waterproof marl that stopped the infiltration of the sand present here to above it. A beautiful waterfall has formed due to the presence of the stream and the erosion that followed.

Beautiful rugged waterfall hidden between the dense forests. A great place to stop during your walk.

Is it a sculpture? A waterfall ? Up to you. A nice point of interest on this path of dreams.

Is it a sculpture? Is it a waterfall? It's up to you. A nice point of interest on this path of dreams.

The site extends about 2 km south of the village of Buzenol, on the left side of the Gros Ruisseau valley, in a largely forested environment (beech grove, among others). The cron, name given to the petrifying limestone springs, currently appears as a steeply sloping clearing facing south and tumbled down by rivulets with crystal clear water, which are fed by two springs located a little below the archaeological park of Montauban . There is remarkably contrasting vegetation and ecological conditions: thus an arid calcareous grassland with blue sesleria (Sesleria caerulea), an alkaline marsh with molinia (Molinia caerulea), dry or wet rocky slabs, a sedge meadow rub shoulders over a short distance. with scaly sedge (Carex lepidocarpa), pioneer thickets of willow (Salix spp.) and buckthorn (Frangula alnus), thermophilic preforest fringes, etc. The flora includes many rare species such as parnassia (Parnassia palustris) and flea sedge (Carex pulicaris), both highly threatened in Wallonia. The local fauna is just as remarkable: the site is, for example, the favorite habitat of a rare dragonfly, the bidentate cordulegaster (Cordulegaster bidentatus), whose larvae develop in the thin streams of water. On this same slope there are several other crons also very interesting but largely under forest cover.