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Published: March 12th 2015
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After an enjoyable first night in Chanthaburi, we woke up to hot sunny day. The guide book doesn't rate here as a top backpacker destination so no tourist spots are listed, never the less we did some research and found that there was a National park situated just outside of the town centre. We packed our ruck sack, and took a taxi to the park. The taxi's in Asia are fairly unconventional and it was more of a pick up truck we sat in the back of but it made for great viewing of the surrounding landscape on the way. As we approached the park you could start to see its beauty, an area with mountains and tree covered hills looked stunning in the sunshine. We arrived and paid the admission, as it was a Saturday it clearly was a popular weekend hot spot for locals and people from further a field, Oliver and I did stand out like a saw thumb here being the only westerners in sight. We began with a hill top trek around the park, running through it was a beautiful river where you could go and sit in to cool down or have a pic nick
by. The hill top path wasn't much of a path at all more of s dusty slope with rocks and trees to negotiate around, still this was some good exercise for us. We saw a variety of brides, trees and other wild life while walking. We came by the river and had a little water break, in the river was some big and little fish quite happy to try nibble at your feet, felt strange but you can pay for that to be done in England why not do it in a National Park? After the fish had some lunch and we cooled down (seriously hot walking, sweating buckets) we Continued our treck, we came across some big rocks heading up the stream and kind of lost the path we were following, after some discussion and a bit of a clamber of the rocks it was clear we had got lost, with no other alternative we turned back and went the way we came.
The main path leading towards the water fall was far easier to walk up in flip flops than the hilltop walk we first tried makes you wonder why we didn't do that first. Once we
arrived at the waterfall you could see its beauty straight away nestled in the trees and rocks was beautifully clear water running down into a pool where you could go and swim or just have a cool off. How ever, as we got to the side of the waterfall pool I have never seen so many shoals of fish in all my life great big black ones (no idea what breed) and the locals seemed to be feeding them green beans, they went wild for them. I had a dip in the pool, a local passed we a strand of bean and the fish swarmed me it was quite scary at first if I am honest but after I new they weren't going to have bite of me I was quite happy to feed them, needless to say I still didn't spend to long in there. the tranquil setting here was definitely a trip worth doing and Ollie and I were pleased we made the decision to come, a very pleasant change from the sights of Pattaya or Bangkok. An hour or so was spent absorbing the tranquillity of Piew and trying to get a tan until we left and
made our way back to the hostel. Ollie and I both thoroughly enjoyed our day here and I have some pictures which are worth a look once I have uploaded them.
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