Palm Garden Lodge
Travel Blogs from Prachin Buri
Roughing It at Khao Yai
TLDR (Too long, Didn't read) Summary: Saw cool animals. It was fun. Got rained on.
For our first free weekend in Lopburi, Case and Burnett scheduled the one official field trip we will all be taking together to Khao Yai National Park. This park is I think I heard something about 200km across, which in very rough and ready conversion …
Khao Yai National Park Visit
Per Brian's request, I am composing a guest entry for the blog. Of course I am also going to mention that he felt so poorly that he doesn't remember most of this leg of the journey. Monday evening we arrived at the Palm Garden Lodge near Pratchin Buri. We were happy to arrive after 10 hours on the road from Koh Chang, which included riding on two …
Khao Yai National Park
We left a little later than planned; we'd booked an a/c car for the 25 km journey to Wang Noi to catch the bus for Pranchin Buri but the driver turned up in a tuk-tuk - not quite the a/c we were expecting. Anyway after explaining that our backs wouldn't survive the journey we got a car - Madame "You pay now's" nephew. We ended up driving the wrong …
I hate Leeches...for sure.
... be so freaked out. Luckily, i had noticed them before they started sucking my blood and i coulf flick them off. That was how my trip to the national park ended. Back to my bunker of a rook to have a good scrub down, collect my stuff and hitch hike my way back to civilization. Before night fall i was back in the hustle and bustle of bangkok where the only leeches in site were of the human ...
Ninety, it's the new Fifty
... rice because there was no bread for the egg sandwich. Then the cook reappeared with a loaf of bread. She then only took another 10 minutes to half toast the bread and place the now stone cold omelette alongside aforementioned toast. Bless them, they were trying.
Then the border crossing. No obvious system but some helpful people pointed the way through. We passed through the Casino Zone. Apparently an all night venue ...