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Thailand Trips
Thailand Guides
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Western Wildlife Adventure4 days -- from USD 754 per personItinerary:Day 1 - Bangkok - Kaeng Krachan National Park (Lunch, Dinner)
Depart from your Bangkok hotel at 7 am by a private vehicle for a 4-hour drive to Kaeng Krachan National Park. Check in at your resort on the edge of the park and head for lunch at a restaurant overlooking Kaeng Krachan Lake. After lunch, start the drive into Kaeng Krachan National Park with your naturalist guide and porters. At Bang Krang ranger station, set out on an afternoon trek through the forest. On your return to Bang Krang, the support team will have cold drinks and Thai meal waiting for you. After dinner in the forest, start the drive back on the look out for nocturnal species such as elephant, civet, porcupine, gaur and possibly even a leopard. Overnight: Kaeng Krachan Country Club. Day 2 Kaeng Krachan National Park - Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
After breakfast at 6 am, leave the resort for a full day trek deep in the heart of Kaeng Krachan. You will stop along the way at key points on the lookout for some of the parks some 400 plus bird species, and primates such as gibbons and dusky langur. The park is home to five species of hornbill: the great, pied, brown, wreathed and plain-poached. At the higher elevations of the park other delights include the long-tailed broadbill and the rachet-tailed treepie (in Thailand, can only be found in Kaeng Krachan). Depart from the park at around 4 pm and transfer by private vehicle on the 2-hour drive to Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park. Arrive at your beachside resort in time for a sunset swim after your day in the jungle. Overnight: Dolphin Bay Resort. Day 3 Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park - Island Tours (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Board a boat for the trip to a nearby island that is home to long-tailed macaque monkeys. Watch and photograph the macaque as they feed along the shoreline before heading around the island where a school of bottlenose dolphins can sometimes be seen. Tour around the offshore islands on the lookout for sea eagles, pacific-coast egrets and some of the other birds in the area. Back on shore for lunch. Relax for a few hours either by the pool or on the beach, before leaving at 1500 for the 90-minute drive to a forested area, where you will spend the rest of the day with your guide and park rangers searching for some of the parks 120 elephants. Depart from the park and head back to Khao Sam Roi Yot. Overnight: Dolphin Bay Resort. Day 4 Khao Sam Roi Yot - Bangkok (Breakfast, Lunch)Up early for a short transfer by car to the park’s headquarter where you will spend some time bird watching, walking through the mangrove and witnessing at close-quarters the lives of resident dusky langur and long-tailed macaque monkeys. Head back for lunch and a few hours on the beach. Depart Khao Sam Roi Yot in the early afternoon for the journey back to Bangkok. Arrive at your Bangkok hotel at around 1800.
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