Blogs from Khao Yai NP, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 4

Vi har vaeret paa en trekking tur i Khao Yai Nationalpark, hvor vi har set en masse dyr som man ikke ser hver dag. Vi havde en meget dygtig guide med som fandt alle de store dyr som er muligt at se i nationalparken. Der er tigre og bjoerne ogsaa, men de er meget sky.... read more

Payphones in Thailand are incredibly difficult to operate. Once you get your coins in, you have only a few seconds in which you must dial the phone number before it times out. Basically, if you are reading the guesthouse phone number from a page in the guide book you will not enter it in time. So began our trip to the largest and most famous national park in Thailand. After about 20 tries I finally managed to enter the number in time and was speaking to the guides at the Green Leaf Guest House and safari tours. We booked a room and a spot on the tour for the next couple of days and were on our way. The rest was easy. We left Ayuthaya by train, our first experience with the Thai trains. While it ... read more

When I was introduced to my personal guide for the next day's tour in the lodge the night before I thought he seemed a bit young! He wasn't much over 5 foot, had shoulder length hair and spent much of the evening playing computer games. His name was Anon (short for Anonymous I assumed). We entered the Khao Yai National Park at 8 the next morning - just me Anon and the driver because there are so few tourists about at the moment. I was interested to see how good the two Thais would be at spotting wildlife. The most important thing one expects from a guide is that he sees wildlife that you simply wouldn't have known was there on your own. Within minutes he had pointed out elephant dung. Come on Anon, we've ... read more

An interesting few days from Loas to Bangkok where we decided to go via Khao Yai National park in the north East of Thailand. Most of this time was spent travelling but as its not a major tourist route (most people go from Bangkok to Khao Yai rather than Loas) so we decided to negotiate local buses and trains. These are no worse than the tourist buses and much less expensive, we covered about a 1/3 of Thailand for under two pounds! Travelling from Nongkhai to Pak Chong to be precise, this gave us an opportunity to see another side to Thailand, experiencing areas where there were no other white people or tourist shops/informations centres/travel agents or even people who spoke English. Despite this these places where incredibly western and American! We had an overnight stay ... read more

We visited a cave on the first day of our tour of Khao Yai national park which was full of bats & funy shaped stalactites!... read more