After a long overnight journey, we arrived in Pakchong to visit Thailand's premier nature reserve, Khao Yai. Though in the cool season, we would avoid the blazing heat and the torrential rain, we would miss a lot of the lushness and wildlife that the rains bring. Oh well, it meant we avoided the mosquitos and leeches! We went to a Buddhist temple where there was a cave of bats and after we exited, we were fortunate enough to get to watch the entire caves population make their daily exit for food, quite a sight!
From here, we moved on to Nang Rung, farther east of both Bangkok and Pakchong, almost to the Cambodian border. Here we would find many old temples and wats, from a time when Hinduism was a major religion within Thailand. Oh and its 37 degrees here.... cool season??
bathing in the spring
spring meets the river from the mountain
load of bats in the buddha cave
Bats coming out of the bat cave, it takes about two hours for all the bats to come out
the night market in pakchong, we failed to find anything nice to eat with no animals in it
the view of the national park
taxidermy - fail
Gibbons
Jungle boobie
Sunbear marking his territory
Tommy, our guide and rambo of thailand
waterfall from the movie "The Beach" apparantly
Thai people putting sticks to support the rocks- something about their future being supported
Wild elephants of the park
Phanom Rung Historical temple
Gnarly temple art- check out the eye snatching eagle
Prasat Meuang Tam temple
T-1000 from terminator 2 obviously
Don't know what that powder does,but it looks promising
Soda the cool little dog from Wildlife Safari
....what a wonderfull phrase
Videoes of elephants and bats will come another day its late here and the owners of the hotal want us to go to bed now ...
