Khao Sok National Park

This is a transcription of the notes I kept as there was no internet in Khao Sok National Park. I will write more here later as there is likely a lot to write about.

Khao Sok is the first place in Thailand I really love. It is (apparently) the oldest primary rain forest in the world and the best National Park (out of 75) in Thailand. It is home to a huge range of species including civet cat, (kind of like a lepord?), wild elephants, tigers?, a range of monkeys including gibbons, slow loris and other animals. We have not been lucky enough to see any of these so far, but what we have seen are lots of bats, butterfly's (in all sorts of splendid colours), frogs of several different varieties (both large and small) and some crazy plants that shrink (sort of like the plants on avatar) when you touch them. We went trekking to some caves today, where communist rebels hid out until 1981 when they were fighting the Thai government. The rebels were bombed by Thai Government forces before 1982 and government soldiers raided the communist hideout. The bullet marks from automatic machine gun fire still clearly show in the facing walls of the cave.

We saw a few macaques this morning on a long tail boat ride. We also had unusual pancakes for breakfast.


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