The Thailand expat forum for Travel, Lifestyle and Fun.

Mister Fixit

[quote=peterpan;161032]Sorry, I don't know. I stayed on the main road in Pak Chong at a hotel near the Post Office, that's all I remember. I forget the name of it now.

__________________
Still a Pink Floyd space cadet

kingwilly

did i? ooops!

did i rubbish the park or your thread ?

RDN

I've been there too, in May 2003. I had a g/f from Pak Chong and we did the trip to Khao Yai with most of her family

It's a beautiful place with fantastic views and some good waterfalls. I'll post a few pictures later when the current g/f is watching her Thai soaps.

Although the family lived in Pak Chong, it was quite a way down a dirt road - about 2 or 3 km and the house was not very "farang friendly", so we - she, her 6 year old daughter and me - stayed in a Hotel in Pak Chong. Very big hotel just before the town centre on the left, reasonable rates, but can't remember what the name was. It used to get full at weekends.

Edit:

It was the Pak Chong Landmark.

__________________
.
.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


. "You don't pay them for the sex, you pay them to leave" - Charlie Sheen

RDN

This is a panoramic view of part of the park -




We went to a nice waterfall -




...and a reservoir - - but that was pretty boring:




There are some monkeys in the park too, but I saw only a handful.

buadhai

Here are some photos we took there earlier this year. We actually saw quite a lot of wildlife for just a brief visit. I know most of you can't be bothered to actually click on a link, but I'm stuffed if I'm going to cut and paste all the photo links for you:

Khao Yai - February 2006

buadhai

I knew it, no one looked. OK, here are some photos for you....


Wild orchids everywhere you look


Pair of Great Hornbill (sorry about the photo quality)


Big trees


Sambar Deer


Pig-tailed Macaque

buadhai

Fish at Haew Suwat


Haew Suwat waterful (seen in the movie "The Beach")


Common Barking Deer


Wild Elephant (nice tusks)

The rest here:

Khao Yai, February 2006

mrsquirrel

Is that a genuine elephant?

You really saw that wild or was it a setuup for the photo?

Never seen an elephant there yet.

peterpan

I have, a couple of years ago I come barrelling aound the corner and there were two adults and junior crossing the road, all out braking and had to stop for a quick piss soon after.

buadhai

It's a genuine elephant. We were driving along the road when we noticed a lot of brush damage along the shoulders. A few minutes later this elephant ambled by. After it passed us I reversed the car to get another photo, but it trumpted and charged the car. I jammed it in gear and got out as quickly as I could.