Blogs from Khao Yai NP, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia

60 Km day so an early breakfast at the excellent Golden beach hotel Cha Am. a lovely beach, many bars and a great atmosphere. Our guide picked us up at 8am and we drove 30 Km to Hau Hin the starting point a beautiful temple as always! We followed cycle paths inland towards and along a lovely beach seeing statues of the kings of Thailand throughout the ages along the way. Stopping for a break to see a pineapple farm and sample the produce, delicious succulent fresh pineapple and some cocunut dumplings. There were rivers with fishing villages and shrimp boats and 3 temples, Hindu Buddhist and Chinese. We ate local bananas. Then headed for the cave at phraya Nakhon it involved a sea boat trip and 1km each way hike over steep and slippery terrain. ... read more

For my last morning in Thailand I had another opportunity to do some early morning birding in Khao Yai National Park and I had managed to persuade my dad to get up for sunrise to drop me off at a part of the park around 10 minutes drive away (the Pha Kluai Mai campsite) so I could do some early morning birding around there and along the trails and the roads nearby to add a few more species to my Thai list for the end of the trip. There was quite a lot seen around here in the morning, particularly compared to the lack of birds in the heat of the day yesterday when I visited this same area. There were a lot of small birds around such as flowerpeckers and flycatchers and I got fantastic ... read more

The next morning I had managed to persuade my dad to drive me around sunrise to Bang Pra Non-hunting area again that I had visited two days previously but I was keen to spend some more time there. I won’t go into too much detail because I have already described the place two posts ago but it was very nice to see the same place with the early morning bird activity. There was no one at the entrance to pay the entry fee to, but the gate was left open so I could just go in. They’re probably missing the majority of visitors by not having anyone there in the early morning because that’s when most birders would visit and I doubt many other people would visit the place. There were lots of birds around and ... read more

Vecer do vedlajsieho stanu dosli 2 anglanky.Robili mensi bordel,rano ma zobudil ich spev. Restika bola zavreta,tak som skoncil opat na instantnych nudlach.Nic moc jedlo teda. Po vycisteni zubov som sa vybral dzunglov po chodniku k vodopadu Haew Suwat. Cesta uplne pohodicka,chodnik bol krasne vyslapany,na zaciatku bol dokonca vybetonovany. Asi po 1km som sa dostal k prvemu mini vodopadu. Nic moc ale stacilo na pokochanie. Neskor sa cesta uz zhorsila ale furt lepsia nez vcera, obcas padnuty strom cez cestu.Zrazu kukam na vodu a na kmeni sa slnil krokodil. Vau. Opodial som pocul hlasy,dosol som k nim 4 thajci.Hned ma upozornovali na krokodila, bol na nho super vyhlad. Thajci isli predemnu,isli jak dosrany. Predbiehat ich nemalo zmysel, bo som robil kazdu chvilu fotozastavky. Jeden thajec si furt vyzuval topanky. Asi po 4km som dorazil k hlavnemu vchodu ... read more

Rano sa mi nechcelo vstavat na vlak 8/20,tak som sral na to a siel az na ten 11/22. V klude som sa osprchoval, najedol, oholil,pobalil sa a siel. Doplnil som este vodu z vodomatu. Na ferry som dlho necakal,fakt dosla za 5 min a cesta bola ozaj kratka z jedneho brehu na druhy cca 4min. Jeden stary bezzuby thajec skusal se mnu komunikovat ale ani za boha som mu nerozumel. Inac stratil som obal na mobil,no este je ale mozne ,ze ho mam v batohu ale skor nie nez ano. Na stanici zistene,ze vlak co ide o 13/00 je az o 100b lacnejsi,tak som si pockal na nho. Co bola neskor chyba,meskal len 20minut ale po nezazivnej ceste nabral meskanie 1,5 hod. Do Pak Chong som dorazil 16/40,mal som len 20 min aby som stihol posledneho ... read more