TTKY02 - Wildlife Watching Adventure in Khao Yai National Park Tour -3 days
This 3 day Wildlife Watching tour into Khao Yai, Thailand's most famous national park, will not be easy to forget. Our excellent guides will take you along to the best parts of the park and help you to spot some truly fascinating wildlife. With porters to carry all your equipment and gear, we will set out to explore this dramatic, wilderness that is considered one of the most important natural areas in all of Thailand. A personal and professional naturalist guide is going to join you all the time. We will normally spend the nights in a 3-star resort just outside the park. But different accommodation that fits your budget is possible as well.
Khao Yai is Thailand's oldest and most famous National Park, various movies have been shot here, no wonder. This park boasts some absolutely stunning nature!
We will pick you up from your hotel in Bangkok at 7am for the 3-hour transfer to Khao Yai. Here you will meet your naturalist guide and head into the park for a nature walk for the rest of the day through the lush evergreen forest that dominates the central regions of Khao Yai National Park. Porters are on hand to carry food and other supplies. We will take a break from walking and you will have time to relax while our staff will prepare a delicious traditional Thai lunch for you, right here in the forest. After the walk you will have some time to freshen up before we head out again to visit the created mineral licks. Larger mammals visit these licks, and it’s a convenient way for the park rangers to keep an eye on the population. After this we’ll continue on the so-called crocodile trail for a short trek. Next we will drive to Khao Kheaw viewpoint to watch some bird species. In the evening we will drive to the park headquarter for a night safari spotlighting drive. We have a chance to encounter wildlife of all sizes; possible sighting includes: civets, elephants, deer, porcupines, wild dogs etc. After a long day in the park we will leave for our resort at around 8:30pm. But before you check in to your comfortable rooms, we will stop at traditional Thai restaurant for a nutritious dinner.
Walking distance: about 4km.
We wake up early this morning and head out on an early morning walk to the wildlife watchtower. Possible sightings from here include birds such as the great hornbill. This tower will also give us the opportunity to watch early morning activities at the nearby mineral lick spot. After this we will set out on a full-day nature trek with your experienced naturalist leader. Again our porters will be there, carrying essentials for breakfast and another delicious lunch in the forest. At the end of the walk your private transport will be waiting for us and we will start to drive back and leave the park for now. We drive to the so-called Elephant Mountain to experience a very special event. Once dusk sets in, millions and millions of bats will start flying out of cave up on the hill. It’s a truly spectacular sight to see the bats swirling around in a seemingly endless stream. We will drive back to our hotel. This evening you are free to have dinner on your own.
Walking distance: about 5km.
This morning we will enter the national park around 8:30am for a nature trek that focuses on the lives of the parks gibbon population. We will try to view these amazing forest acrobats in action. Their weird and funny sounds carry a long way trough the quiet forest in the morning, but it’s not always easy to spot them up high between the dense blankets of leaves, high up in the trees. We will have lunch near the famous Haew Suwat Waterfall, the most beautiful waterfall in Khao Yai. After a relaxing Thai lunch, we will start to make our way back, with another stop at the Haew Narok Waterfall on the way, we will head out of the forest around 3:30pm to transfer you back to your hotel in Bangkok or the airport. This is the end of this tour.
Walking about 5km.
- Light walking boots or sports shoes
- Camera and binoculars (very useful)
- Long trousers and long-sleeved shirt for walking in the forest
- Mosquito repellent, sun hat and sunscreen
- Jumpers from November to February
- Transportation as mentioned
- Accommodation
- Meals as indicated including bottle water and fruit
- English speaking, professional naturalist guide
- Porters and Thai chef
- Field equipment: firstaid equipment, raincoats and other equipment necessary for activities in the field.
- Park fees and entrance fees
- Insurance
- All drinks, except water
- Personal expenses
- Tips
- The tour is on private basis (no other participants will join you).
- This tour base in twin sharing room. Supplement will be charge as $117 for single room
- This tour is not allowed for children below 3 years.
- This tour is for people who enjoy soft trekking and want to see wildlife and birds.
- This itinerary is an indication, routes and timings may change according to local conditions but we will always strive to keep the general content of the trip to remain as close to original as possible.
- It’s possible to adjust the accommodation to your budget if you prefer 2- or 3-star accommodation.
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