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Khao Sok National Park
Travel Blogs from Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
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The Jungles of Thailand
This is a top pick! ... sounds never cease. Our Jungle House is the name of the place Ellen and I are staying on the edge of Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand. Earlier in the day we'd asked Kris, the woman that runs the place, if we should keep our shutters closed ...
A stumble in the jungle
This is a top pick! ... down... however was fixed within 25 minutes) we arrived in the unspoilt, jungle-clad and mountainous paradise of Khao Sok National Park. Here, jagged limestone hills rise steeply from the sea of emerald green forest... breathtaking. Our accommodation ...
Back to my Caveman Roots!
This is a top pick! ... I did, then I saw on the bus, in bold letters Khao Sok, as a stop. I inquired and sure enough, the bus went through Khao Sok. This was excellent. I upgraded my ticket, bought some biscuits and water, and took my seat. The Lonely Planet told me to get ...
Lakes and Rafthouses!
This is a top pick! Our power snorkelling instructor told us about a little place called Khao Sok National Park located just south of Surathani back on the mainland and from the pictures he showed us we thought it was definitely worth a look so we decided to by-pass the ...
Khao Sok National Park
Khao Sok National Park was a holiday within a holiday. I'm staying in a simple dwelling. A bamboo shack alongside the Cheow Lan lake, with a backdrop of magnificent limestone karsts. The Baan Khao Sok Resort as it is called, (however, the word 'Resort' ...
Legehuse på 80 meter dyb sø midt i junglen
Vi stod op tidligt om morgenen, og forlod Bamboo House hytten med kurs mod en kæmpestor sø et sted i Khao Sok jungle. Efter en times kørsel til havnekajen steg vi ombord i en longtail boat, som sejlede os langt ud på søen og ind i en labyrint af ...
Jungle Adventures
... other creatures around the grounds including very small srtipy squirrels and a very big frog. Interestinglyenough on our treks into the national park we saw no animals at all- unless you count spiders or leeches- but did some interesting activities. Went ...
Lost in the jungle
... three top quality numbers ( they stopped clapping after the second and sent us packing after the third!) Great. The next day the park had it's 26th Birthday celebrations..the officers invited us back to join the locals in the party...So we did..and drank ...
Chiao Lan: That Dam Lake!
Day 2 in Khao Sok National Park turned out to be a much-welcomed relaxing day of soaking up the sun (and the views). We went on a small road trip to Chiao Lan Lake, which is actually man-made as a result of the Rajjaprapha dam. It's the biggest artificial ...
Butterfly Guide through the Jungle
... before we booked anything. When we arrived to Bangkok our travel agent at the TAT office suggested we do a trek in Khao Sok National Park, a park Michael read about and according to our Rough Guide, was considered a place that could not be missed ...
Back to nature
... jage I floden om natten. Vores guide Kean var meget velbevandret inden for den reptile verden efter at have været I Khao Sok I tretten år. Han kunne fortælle mange spændende historier om store pytoner og kobraslanger, som er meget almindelige her. ...
Ramt af regnsaeson!
... smadrede efter en natfaerge-tur fra Koh Tao til fastlandet, ankom vi til den lille landsby, der graenser op til Khao Sok National Park. Khao Sok har nogenlunde samme status som junglen (Taman Negara) vi besoegte i Malaysia; begge steder menes at vaere ...
Khao Sok = Meh
Tiffany's second blog entry: Relaxing and quiet, Khao Sok is a small town in front of the Khao Sok National Park. We were planning on staying there for a few days because it was low key and significantly cheaper than Ton Sai, but that did not happen. The ...
Jungle trekking and an unexpected proposition...
... sleep" didnt seem to have much effect! So we chatted for about 2 hours, and he told me lots of things about the jungle, and thailand, adn showed me some cool photos of monkeys. Anyway, by 11pm I decided that it really was bedtime, so stood up adn said I ...
Jungle Lovers
Up crazily early. We all piled into a pickup truck for the long and windy drive to the lake. On the way we stopped at a local market to get fruit and water, and some sticky rice things. At the rickety jetty we climbed into a longtail boat and ...
The Jungle - Never Again!!!
Wednesday 18th January 2006 Woke up around 6.30am and got ourselves ready for the bus to pick us up at 7am to Khao Sok National Park. It only turned out to be a minibus there and only had a few passengers on it, so was quite a comfortable ride for ...
Tubing in Khoa Sok
... are getting out of hand. Had breakfast just outside the station, before jumping in songthaews to our accommodation just out side Khoa Sok National Park. Got there in time for lunch and then off to the river for tubing, which was great fun even if the ...
Possibly my favorite place so far!
We have had a fab few days in Khao Sok National Park, mostly trekking to the numerous waterfalls and we went on an elephant trek which was very fun! On our first night we didn't do an awful lot as arrived too late to go into the park, so we settled into ...
Off on safari!
... ;a place called Takua Pam 3 hours north. there I had a rather tasty chicken noodle soup for lunch adn then got on the bus to Khao Sok, which is where I am now. Having pinched someones rough guide to read on the bus (the problem with the LP guide to SE ...
Khao Sucks!
Wanting a change of scenery and to break up our overland adventure to Indonesia we headed to Khao Sok National Park. I very nearly didn't make it at all having yet another near death experience. Only in Thailand could the emergency exit of a coach, which ...
Back to the Jungle
... machine (which is actually more expensive and terribly inconvenient to escape) that takes us en route to the lush jungles of Khao Sok National Park. There we get to stay in an awesome little treehouse bungalow, where we meet a little frog on the porch at ...
Another one bites the dust...
... , other than that downer I have had a fantabulous 2 days :oD We started off early with a drive to a large lake in the national park called Chaio Lan, it was formed when they built a dam, and its up in the mountains, surrounded by limestone peaks ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... adventurous (than snorkeling). With this in mind and only the recommendation of many other travellers, we headed inland to Khao Sok National Park, apparently "the oldest evergreen rainforest in the world". Our time at Khao Sok was relatively brief but ...
The Oldest Rainforest in the World
We spent about four days enjoying the fresh, clean air the rainforest of Khao Sok had to offer. There were beautiful plants, flowers and animals everywhere you looked here, and we were greeted with an amazing thunderstorm almost every night around ...
Khao Sok National Park
... the actual bus, we went to the actual bus station where we picked up more passengers. We were taking the bus to Khao Sok National Park, which is in the middle of the tiny slice of southern Thailand wedged between the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman ...
Khao Sucks
So we left Ton Sai and headed up to a national park called Khao Sok. It is known for being the largest area of never developed rain forest in Thailand. There is a great lake there ...
Nature calls
... we got into Thailand, our stiffened legs were in need of movement in the form of a 14km hike through the rainforests of Khao Sok National Park. Much wildlife was on show, including snakes, huge lizards, growling monkeys and we're sure we heard the roar ...
Politics and Relaxation
... memory sticks) -sleep sack -tiny towel -first aid kit Thats the big stuff. Ill give you the full update on Khao Sok NP after I have left and started snorkelling on thailands west coast. If you want an email reminder whenever I update ...
Khao Sok National Park
... to turn around and scamble down again. I was was not amused (Kate). Safe to say we were slightly dissapointed with the actual National Park itself when we ventured into it, but we loved where we were staying and the peacefulness of it all. We went ...
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