After relaxing at a beach for long, I headed to Khao Sok National Park. Khao Sok is a small town which has become popular because of the national park. Spread over 700 Square KM, the national park is a rainforest hosting a large number of species and is estimated to be one of the oldest rainforests in the world (160 Million years), possibly older than the Amazon Rainforests. I was staying only a couple of nights and focused on the Cheow Lan Lake. Spread over 180 Square KM, this manmade lake came into being as a result of a dam constructed in the 1980s to produce electricity and provide irrigation/fishing to the surrounding region. I took a long boat tour on the lake with other tourists (this is a popular tour, I had about 40 people
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