National Parks in Thailand

In general Thailand's national parks are real highlight’s of Thailand. The right places to detox, enjoy and relax.

Stunning rainforest, beautiful lakes, abundant wildlife, mostly small scale animals, breathtaking panoramas, reasonable prices -except entrance fees for foreigners is unreasonable, a foreigner pay Baht 200,- a Thai Baht 50,- and even this Baht 50,- usually is not paid.

In Thailand's National Parks You can experience

- Excellent Rainforest trekking trails through the lush tropical jungle, great outdoors inludinglimestone caves, waterfalls and a boundant flora and fauna to explore.
- Beautiful Lakes.
Amost every NP has a attractive Lake, either a small one at the lowest level or the waterfall, or just a other, bigger one. Some NP wildlife, show wild elephants and some big cats like leopards and a few tigers.
- Floating Raft houses
Since almost every NP has some kind of a lake it also means floating raft houses on the lakes, a nice experience.
- Various Flora & Fauna can be experienced plus a variety of bigger animals like barking deer, tapir, Asiatic black bear, but they are hard to find, maybe they heard to many riffle shots over the years.
- Some NP like the Khao Sok NP offer tree house accommodation high up in the green trees.
- Adventure a go go means elephant trekking canoeing and kayaking, rafting -includes white water rafting- or maybe play “caveman” and find some Neolithic cave paintings. Thailand is full of limestone caves, like a emmentaler cheese is filled with air bubbles

Khao Laem Reservoir and National Park

Khao Laem National Park Kanchanburi

Khao Laem National Park Kanchanburi East End

A calm morning at the Khao Laem Reservoir and National Park. Raft houses of the fishing communities are floating on the calm  water of the reservoir. It’s extremely silent out here the only sound is the chirping of birds and low level whisper of the mountain wind. The reservoir is integrated into the national park to protect the environment and the mountain forest around is ideal for quiet vacation. A symphony in blue and green with only a few people around. Its quite a poor countryside where the people don’t have much possibility to produce income, it’s pure agriculture environment, around Kanchanaburi it’s sugarcane.

Khao Laem National Park Sankhla Buri Kanchanburi              Khao Laem National Park Sankhla Buri Kanchanburi West End

It is very exiting to snorkel or just swim around the smooth rocks and use the currents to drift through the shallow water in the gaps between the boulders.

You can explore the Similan Islands either by a live aboard tour, with the speedboat on a one day trip, leaving Tap Lamu pier at 8.30 in the morning and coming back to the pier by around 5 pm. One could also leave the speedboat at island no.4 and stay a night or 2 in the bungalows there -check above left for booking-.

Accommodation etc. is very basic, only available on the main island -picture above- that means most of the time no electricity and also no supply for diving, only snorkeling. If you want to dive the only way is -as mentioned above- using the live aboard version, either 1 or more days.

Its a clean, pristine environment full of beauty above and under the water surface, unfortunately there are still many locals -not foreigner, it is possible to determine this by the nature of the junk-who just throw their trash, oil container, plastic bottles and everything one can think about just into the sea or on the beach.

The beach shown in the top photos is one of the most famous in southern Thailand at the time we wrote this text it was littered with around more than 100 objects of plastic trash, the people in the National Park Headquarter who's job it is  to keep this area nice and clean do mainly mobile phone bla bla, chattering and try to beat the time.

Try do avoid the National Park Headquarter before the pier. This is a disaster zone extremely infested with mosquitoes and unreliable and ignorant employees.

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Met Sine Travel before the pier can do booking for speedboats and accommodation on the island  Tel: 076 443276, 443340 fax: 595164

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