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| ACTIVITIES 'Treks-Hikes-Trips-Night Safari-Canoeing-Tubing' |
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RIVER BEACH
Just beside our tree houses is a peaceful beach where you can relax, gaze at the cliff, sunbathe, and wade in the gentle stream.
For more adventurous activities please choose from the extensive selection below. |
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HIKES YOU CAN DO YOURSELF |
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Trails in Khao Sok National Park are well established and for shorter hikes, you may find your own way. Thailand trekking is well organized here. |
| A favorite of the writer is called Bang Hua Raed and is a one-hour hike to a natural Olympic sized pool in the forest pictured right.
The only cost is the park entrance fee, currently 100 baht/person/day.
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| HALF - DAY GUIDED HIKES |
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| Do some jungle trekking with a guide. The guide will keep you from getting lost, point out animals, plants and other things you might not notice by yourself, and provide interesting insights into wildlife – and even his own life - in the tropical forest. |
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Our Jungle House provides friendly English-speaking guides.
A slow walk takes you to a wide swimming hole with a small falls at the top.
Price: 500 baht/person
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FULL DAY GUIDED HIKE |
| Takes you deeper into the park. You can choose from several trekking routes, but the one to the rock arch over a great swimming hole and picnic spot is recommended. |
| The guide will point out things you might not notice yourself.
Price: 800 baht/person
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SCUBA DIVING at KHAO SOK |
The fairy-tale lake at Khao Sok (know as Chiew Lan Lake), measuring 165 square km, is a thrill under-water as well as on land. Once submerged its easy to believe you are suspended in an enchanted forest surounded by stunning rock formations, stalactites and stalacmites.
After a few meters descent, the water becomes cristal clear and the temperature drops to 27c. What’s down there are enormous flooded trees, huge stalactites hugging the submerged limestone cliffs, underwater caves, and curious catfish and other varieties.
With nitrox, you can descend to the Thai temples and villages submerged at the bottom of the lake and a fantastic area which is home to a submerged forest. |
2 persons 9,750 baht per person
3 persons 8,300 baht per person
4 persons 7,575 baht per person
5 (maximum) 7,060 baht per person
Includes 2 dives with diving master, round-trip transfer from/to the resort, scenic cruise on the Chiew Lan lake, evening wildlife-spotting by boat, overnight on raft houses, 3 delicious meals.
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| Jungle Survival Experience |
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| Challenging, fun, and fascinating, this trip will teach you how to survive in the tropical jungle. The jungle is much less threatening than Westerners think. For example, there are no mosquitoes deep in the forest, only in inhabited areas. And there is a wealth of fruit, roots, leaves, and fish to keep you alive if you know how to find and identify them.
One of the most experienced jungle guides at Khao Sok will lead you on an overnight or 3day/2night experience of self-discovery and self-reliance. You will also get to see some of the beautiful interior of the Khao Sok park, with huge old rainforest trees and wildlife not seen on shorter trips |
| Reasonable fitness required.
3day/2night trip 4,800 per person (min 2 persons) 2day/1night trip 3,500 baht per person (min 2 persons) |
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| ELEPHANT TREK |
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| This trip on elephant back takes you through orchards, streams, and tropical jungle. Experienced mahouts take good care of you and the elephants. |
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Bring your bathing suit for a dip in a little jungle pool.
Price: 1,100 baht/person
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OVERNIGHT LAKE TRIP (not to be missed) |
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This 28-km long lake was created when the authorities built a hydro dam starting in 1986. Filled to a depth of 90 meters, it left spectacular limestone peaks popping up all over the lake.
Enjoy boat ridesthrough the enchanting scenery, swimming in the lake, quiet evening kayaking to spot wildlife along the banks, and a 3-hour hike to a cave in the forest. Delicious food. Stay overnight in clean, cozy raft-houses.
If you want more adventure or relaxation, spend one more nights on the lake.
You may also enjoy this fairytale lake on a one-day trip. with delicious,fresh lunch at the rafthouse. |
Overnight lake trip
2 persons: 5,000 baht/person
Extra night on lake: 1,000 baht/person
Full day lake trip
2 persons: 3,000 baht/person
4 persons: 1,800 baht/person
If there's a group leaving and you wish to join in, the price will be only:
Full day lake trip: 1,500 baht/person
Overnight lake trip: 2,500 baht/person |
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| CANOE TRIP |
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| 1-1/2 to 2 hour canoe trip depending on river current. Paddle yourself or be paddled by a guide down the Sok River, passing forest, fields, orchards, and mountain cliffs. |
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Hop out for a swim to cool down.
Price: 900 baht/person
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RIVER TUBING |
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Be a kid again. You'll love it. Depending on the time of year, this can be a cooling drift downstream or a more exciting ride with some small rapids to bump through. |
| Two hour trip including car pickup at the end.
Not available during low water season mid-December to the end of April.
Price: 350 baht/person
(Minimum 4 persons)
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| NIGHT SAFARI |
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| No telling what you might find when you set out at night into the park. Maybe a lemur, civet cat or fireflies. Or the guide might suddenly illuminate a tarantula, a stick insect, or the vibrating stomach of a grasshopper making shrill noises in the jungle night. |
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Two hours. We supply flash lights.
Price: 500 baht/person
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Night Safari by River |
| Experience the adventure of seeing wildlife close-up while gliding quietly by on a native bamboo raft. Our professional English-speaking guide will punt the raft and keep a look for the variety of creatures, such as civet cat, mouse deer, lemur and many others. |
| A canoe may be substituted for bamboo raft in the monsoon season if the current is too strong.
1,300 baht per person
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SPECIAL WILDLIFE TOUR (February - May) |
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Between February and May each year the water in the lake recedes and we have a very good chance of seeing wildlife coming to munch on the fresh grass at the water's edge. A two-hour boat ride take us deep into the lake. At sunset set off in a slow boat with local spotters, and you are likely to see sambar deer, hornbills and the wild gaur - a massive wild Asian buffalo conspicuous for its white socks and curled horns. You can also take a jungle hike in the footsteps of elephants. |
| Overnight at an isolated and peaceful raft house deep in the lake. In the early morning take a second boat safari for more animal and bird spotting.
Price:
2 people - 6,000 baht/person
4 people - 4,500 baht/person
6 people - 4,000 baht/person |
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