Central Thailand Nature Lovers Adventure

📍 Transfer from Airport to hotel: 1 hour

Welcome to Thailand. Your guide will be waiting for you with a sign and will bring you to your hotel for some relaxation. 

Tonight you’ll be having a delicious welcome dinner.  
 

Inclusions:

🍗 Dinner

📍 Transfers: 1 hour Kayaking: 4 hours Difficulty: Easy

This morning we shall travel back to time and explore the old way of living along hidden canals. We’re heading to a local floating market (only open on weekends) where we have a stroll around before we will have a tour briefing while sipping a cup of drink while moving to the starting point. With ourselves and kayaks ready, we will start paddling from a local lotus pond, through some old communities and temples. Upon reaching our halfway mark, we will stop by a 200-year-old community settlement, visiting a Chinese shrine and talking to the community’s shipwright. 

Continue here into our kayaks, we are going to paddle through some tropical fruit orchards and among Bangkok oldest wooden architecture houses where time stood still and lifestyle stress were words that were only meant for the materialistic and developed world. Imagine and immerse yourself by transferring into ancient time to enjoy these scenic canals and Bangkok waterway of life. 

In the afternoon it’s time to visit Wat Pho, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. This statue of Buddha is 150-feet long and is coated in gold leaf. The feet alone are nine feet long and adorned in mother of pearl! There’s no better introduction to Thai culture than taking in the royal grandeur of Bangkok’s Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha). 

Dinner at leisure. 
 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Hotel - Samut Songkram: 1 hour Samut Songkram – Kanchanaburi: 1 hour 40 min

Early this morning, drive south from Bangkok to the garden province of Samut Songkhram Province, and head towards the famous railway market at Maeklong District, where you will get a glimpse into Thai local lifestyle. *Start the walk through the local market, located by the railway track and witness the dexterity and speed of the vendors as they quickly pack their stalls right before 09:45 am when the train approaches; hence, brining shopping to a brief halt. Then we will visit Damnoen Saduak Floating market and take a long-tail boat ride through the canals and see how Thai people live alongside the labyrinth of canals in this area. 

Then drive further to Kanchanaburi and stop en-route for coffee tasting at Hua Hong Coffee. Continue driving to the famous Bridge on the River Kwai, built by Allied prisoners of war during World War II. Visit the Art Gallery & War Museum and lunch at a local restaurant. Walk through the historical Pak Phraek Road.

Tonight we sleep in beautiful but local floating rafts, there is no electricity and it’s the perfect place to wind down, relax and turn down those electronics. There’s no better escape from our busy lives than to enter a holiday like this.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch, 🍗 Dinner

📍 Transfer hotel to start point bike ride: 20 min Cycling distance up to 15 km Difficulty: Easy Kayaking distance up to 5 km Difficulty: Easy Hike: up to 2 hours Difficulty: Easy

After breakfast it’s ready for some action, we take a short ride to the starting point of our bicycles and after a quick briefing we head out for a bike ride through the rural areas. End point of our ride is the river where we change gears to watersports and we start paddling down the river, enjoying the peaceful nature. 

After lunch at a local restaurant we will go out for a hike towards a spring in the Sai Yok national park area ending up at a beautiful waterfall where we can do some relaxing and swimming before heading back to our floating rafts. 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch, 🍗 Dinner

📍 Transfer from Kanchanaburi – Kaeng Krachan: 4 hours Trekking distance up to 5 km Difficulty: Easy

A ride awaits us this morning while we transfer to Kaeng Krachan National park. The biggest national park area in Thailand but also one of the least visited. Kaeng Krachan is famous for birders and wild life passionate people alike and it’s definitely recommended to bring a binocular on this trip. We’ll be having lunch overseeing the beautiful dam and buying some camping supplies before heading into the park area. Upon arrival we start with a look at the visitor center to see what kind of animals are to be found before we embark on a 3 Km hike to try and spot some wild-life.  

Once completed, if time permits we can add on another 2 Km hike but even around the camping grounds there are loads of birds and potentially monkeys climbing around. 

We’ll be having dinner before retiring to our simple tent for the overnight camping experience.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch, 🍗 Dinner

📍 Transfer from Campsite to Waterfall: 2 hours Trekking up to: 4 hours Difficulty: Hard (but flexible) Transfer from Waterfall to hotel: 2 hours

Following a simple but good breakfast, we head down the mountain and while we stay in the park, we head to the most southern part for one of the highlights on the trip. The Pala U waterfall has 16 steps, making it one of the highest in Thailand and those who make it to the top will be rewarded by superb views over Thailand and towards Burma. It is however a tough trek up and how far we would make it, depends on the fitness level of our guests. 

The third stage itself has a large natural pool where most people halt their hikes and hop in the cooling water to relax and soak up the area where you can occasionally hear and see gibbons and other wildlife in this 1,000-year-old forest. 

We’ll be having a picnic lunch on the way today. 

After we’ve recovered from our climbs, we hop back in the van and drive to Sam Roy Yot. After a few nature days it’s time for a soft bed and good shower close to the beach. 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Transfer: hotel to Kui buri and back: 1 hour

After a refreshing night’s sleep, you’ll have the morning at leisure as we will pick you up right after lunch. It’s best to see wildlife in the dusk of dawn and we are proud to invite you to get closer to the wild elephants in the jungle of Kui Buri National Park. You will have an opportunity to monitor wild elephants in the forest of which there are only a few hundred left in Thailand.

The first stop is at Ranger Station where Oriental Pied Hornbill can be naturally seen.

Then we will grab a chance at the second stop to monitor those wild elephants while they are eating and playing in the natural pond at the forest edge in the afternoon time. We may have a chance to explore other wildlife such as Gaur, Barking deer and Birds.

We’ll be having a dinner box on the tour tonight.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🍗 Dinner

📍 Transfers between places: 1 hour First hike: 2 km Difficulty: Easy Second hike: 4 km Difficulty: Medium

This morning, pack your bags before we head out to Khao Deang, a stunning karst stone formation with mangrove rivers leading though this stunning area. We start with a 1-hour boat ride through the mangroves to observe nature's beauty. On the way back we will stop at a hiking point to do a hike up to a viewpoint to have a great view over this area with the mountains, mangroves and sea on the other side. We will have lunch today on a beach side restaurant at the entrance of the final stop for today. It’s the hike to Phraya Nakhorn cave. Walking a steep path on the side of the mountain with on the other side the beautiful sea. The first part is only one km before you get back on flat ground for a while walking along a beach. The last 500M up to the cave is a climb up on the rocks. Fun, sweaty but most definitely worth it as you enter the gigantic caves which will leave you in awe. 

We’ll head back and check in on our final hotel for this trip. A stunning secluded place which is the best place to relax after an Adventurous week of activities and finish off with a farewell dinner with the guide before he departs.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch, 🍗 Dinner

Enjoy a relaxing day at leisure at the stunning beach, huge pool or if you haven’t had enough adventure yet, you can book an activity or rent a kayak with the hotel directly.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast

Enjoy a relaxing day at leisure at the stunning beach, huge pool or if you haven’t had enough adventure yet, you can book an activity or rent a kayak with the hotel directly.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast

📍 Transfer hotel to airport: 4 hours

We’ll be having a transfer for you today back to Bangkok airport.  

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast