National Parks in Thailand

Most Thai National Parks are real rainforest national parks and great for trekking, Similan island national park, Ang Thong Marine National Park, Tarutao Marine National Park and other are naturally mainly for snorkeling and scuba diving plus marvelous island beaches.

-Great outdoors, beautiful waterfalls, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, beaches, lush tropical jungle, wildlife, a grandiose underwater world

just name it are the highlights of most of Thailand's National Parks, real marvelous places just right for foreign visitors and usually very pleasant places, but as everyone know, the bad stuff never sleeps. A particular interesting Thailand National Park is the Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand.

-Tarutao Marine National Park

To put this in context, some time ago I went to the Tarutao National Park -pictures below- a archipelago off the south west of coast of Thailand near the border to Malaysia.

I had very negative experience there in the Bungalows for rent at park headquarter, you must bring your own soap, toilet paper and towel with you, this items are not supplied, but they charge premium prices for the lousy bungalows. They tell the guest go and  buy the soap etc. in the shop, who makes the profit there? -the relative of the park manager .  Electricity is only on from 6 pm to around 12 pm, no ventilator before and after. The “self service” restaurant is substandard but the prices are top, around the same like in Patong Beach, Phuket.

If you have a problem, the guy at the reception - the one with the moustache - tells - you are a stupid farang - etc., strange philosophy anyway.

There are a few bungalow cluster at the other beaches like Ao Molae beach, but to go there is a problem, the park headquarter controls the long tail boats to go there, they charge the foreigner 800 baht for a 20 minute ride. The usual price elsewhere in Thailand is about 300 baht.

If one complain they tell, their engine is a car engine and this consumes much more petrol than the usual diesel engine, their problem is they think unfortunately all others have a similar peculiar thinking pattern like they have. I really hope that someone on Bangkok brings this people under control before they can do more damage by running wild.

On Ko Tarutao the adventure hungry can explore caves - crocodile cave on Ko Tarutao -, waterfalls - Lu Du waterfall is about 1 hour walk and Lo Po waterfall about 1 hour and a half - from the park HQ. Isolated beaches and jungle treks through virgin rain forest are a great experience. It is one of the few places in Thailand without human intervention.

-In general Thailand's national parks are real highlight’s of Thailand. The right places to detox you brain, enjoy and relax.

Stunning rainforest, beautiful lakes, abundant wildlife, mostly small scale animals and breathtaking panoramas under the water surface and above the water surface.

In Thailand's National Parks You can experience

- Excellent Rainforest trekking trails through the lush tropical jungle, great outdoors inludinglimestone caves, waterfalls and a boundant flora and fauna to explore.
- Beautiful Lakes.
Amost every NP has a attractive Lake, either a small one at the lowest level or the waterfall, or just a other, bigger one. Some NP wildlife, show wild elephants and some big cats like leopards and a few tigers.
- Floating Raft houses
Since almost every NP has some kind of a lake it also means floating raft houses on the lakes, a nice experience.
- Various Flora & Fauna can be experienced plus a variety of bigger animals like barking deer, tapir, Asiatic black bear, but they are hard to find, maybe they heard to many riffle shots over the years.
- Some NP like the Khao Sok NP offer tree house accommodation high up in the green trees.
- Adventure a go go means elephant trekking canoeing and kayaking, rafting -includes white water rafting- or maybe play “caveman” and find some Neolithic cave paintings. Thailand is full of limestone caves, like a emmentaler cheese is filled with air bubbles

-Khao Laem Reservoir and National Park

Khao Laem National Park Kanchanaburi

Khao Laem National Park Kanchanaburi East End

A calm morning at the Khao Laem Reservoir and National Park. Raft houses of the fishing communities are floating on the calm  water of the reservoir. It’s extremely silent out here the only sound is the chirping of birds and low level whisper of the mountain wind. The reservoir is integrated into the national park to protect the environment and the mountain forest around is ideal for quiet vacation. A symphony in blue and green with only a few people around. Its quite a poor countryside where the people don’t have much possibility to produce income, it’s pure agriculture environment, around Kanchanaburi it’s sugarcane.

Khao Laem National Park Sankhla Buri Kanchanaburi              Khao Laem National Park Sankhla Buri Kanchanaburi West End

Simila islands national park small beach

Similan islands national park scuba diving

Sting Ray at Similan islands national park scuba diving

Its a clean, pristine environment full of beauty above and under the water surface, unfortunately there are still many locals -not foreigner, it is possible to determine this by the nature of the junk-who just throw their trash, oil container, plastic bottles and everything one can think about just into the sea or on the beach. The beach shown in the top photos is one of the most famous in southern Thailand at the time we wrote this text it was littered with around more than 100 objects of plastic trash, the people in the National Park Headquarter who's job it is  to keep this area nice and clean do mainly mobile phone bla bla, chattering and try to beat the time. Try do avoid the National Park Headquarter before the pier. This is a disaster zone extremely infested with mosquitoes and unreliable and ignorant employees. Similan, Similan Islands Thailand, Similan Islands, top diving, live aboard, scuba diving, snorkeling, top diving area, beautiful diving ground, pictures of Similam Islands island Thailand, photos of Similan Islands Island Thailand , Similan Islands island movie location, diving at Similan islands Thailand, dream vacation, Thailand diving, Thailand underwater world, scuba diving. Met Sine Travel before the pier can do booking for speedboats and accommodation on the island  Tel: 076 443276, 443340 fax: 595164

-Nam Tok (= in English Waterfall) Pha Charoen National Park near Mae Sot

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