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Day
1 Phuket - Khao Sok National Park
 After pick up from your hotel
or Phuket Airport, should you arrive with
an early morning flight (please advise time),
cross the bridge to the mainland and drive
on through sparsely populated coastal regions.
You will stop for a visit to a hot spring
and have a Thai-style lunch in a beach-side
restaurant in the now famous Khaolak area.
After passing through the old tin-mining town
of Takuapa, with its over hundred years old
Chinese-style row houses, the street climbs
up the mountains to cross the watershed to
reach Khao Sok National  Park,
one of the most important connected areas
of tropical rain forest in Southern Thailand.
After arrival, check in at the "jungle lodge",
simple stilt-built wooden bungalows with a
small veranda, double or twin beds with moscitonet
and a private bathroom. You have time to take
a ride down the river in an inflated tyre,
if the current is not too strong or explore
the surroundings together with your guide.
Dinner is served in the "jungle lodge" and
you will sleep under the moscitonet with the
sound of the surrounding nature around.
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2 Khao Sok National Park
After breakfast drive to the man-made
water reservoir that covers almost 10% of Khao
Sok National Park. A boat trip across the huge
lake, will bring you to a floating ranger station
hidden in a small bay amidst rain-forest covered
hills one hour later. Have lunch on the raft
and go on a trek in the afternoon. Depending
on weather conditions and the water level of
the lake, the walk will take about one and a
half hour in one direction. The trail is not
difficult, does not have any steep inclinations,
but some climbs over fissured rocks are necessary
and the river has to be crossed several times. Your destination
is a cave in the rain forest, where you will
have time to explore the subterranean river.
You can even decide (depending on weather conditions,
the water level and the advise of the accompanying
ranger) to return part of the way back through
the cave. Otherwise, you will return back on
the same way to reach the raft houses in time
for dinner. Accommodation in one of the small
floating bungalows, that are equipped with thin
mattresses on the ground. The communal toilet
and bathroom are built on the shore. |
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3
Khao Sok National Park - Phuket
The morning time is free to spot animals coming
to the lake or to go swimming. After breakfast
return by boat to the dam, passing high-rising
limestone cliffs and sunken trees.  Go on by minibus
through agricultural used landscape to visit
a Buddhist hill sanctuary offering a beautiful
view to the distant Phang Nga Bay. Have lunch
in a restaurant with the view to the mangrove
forests and stop at a temple built inside a
limestone cave enshrining numerous Buddha images.
Phuket Island is reached in the afternoon and
the tour ends at Phuket Airport or the chosen
hotel. |
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Tour
Code AV S KS1
(3 days/2 nights)
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All
rates in Thai Baht and based on 2 persons
sharing a twin room
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15470 per person
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Children
from 6-14 years, accompanied by 2 adults,
pay 30% of the above price. For 3 or more
adults travelling together, we will be glad
to quote a new price.
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This
tour is operated on a private basis (no other
participants, than those, you have chosen) with
English-speaking guide (other languages might
be available on request) and includes land transportation
by air-conditioned minibus, all boat transfers,
excursions and entrance fees as mentioned in
the above itinerary, accommodation in simple
bungalows with private toilet/bathroom on day
1 and in simple raft houses with communal toilet/bathroom
on day 2, locally prepared full board.
Not included are all drinks and meals not mentioned
in the above itinerary, tips for drivers and
guides and your personal expenses. |
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For all tours we recommend to bring with
you a torch, mosquito repellent, sun lotion,
strong shoes, swim suit and a second set of
clothes. From May to October a rain coat.
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© 1996-2011 All Rights Reserved. South
Orchid (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
P.O.
Box 267, Phuket Town, Phuket, Thailand 83000
Tel:+66 8 9170 4100 Fax:+66 7652 1735
Email: mail@nature-travel.org
Updated:
2010-12-08
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