Sunday, February 20, 2011

Pakchong and Nang Rung

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 ...

3 comments:

  1. SO RAD, I AM SO GETTING SOME TRAVELLING DONE ONE DAY ! HOPE U GUYS GOOD X

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  2. super cool photo's...
    Im glad your enjoying your trip- excited for when you come to the states.. :) Yay..

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