With my week of holidays during the second half of October 2020, I decided to go to two protected areas I'd previously visited only once each - Mae Wong NP back in July 2019, and Huai Kha Khaeng WS (HKK), which I'd first visited with a friend only a month earlier. Along with these two …
Southern Trip – July 2020
After being prevented from any significant travel since around April due to the closure of all Thai national parks (due to COVID19), I eagerly awaited the July 1st opening of (most) national parks around the country which allowed my planned summer road trip to begin. And while some national parks did remain closed, many places …
Khao Dinsor (and nearby sites)
Around 2008, Khao Dinsor in Chumphon province was discovered to be a fantastic site to observe the autumn raptor migration. Khao Dinsor sits only a few kilometres from the coast, and from a north-facing platform at a slight elevation, thousands of raptors - along with other migrants and resident species - can be seen making …
Mu Ko Chumphon National Park – Chumphon
Mu Ko Chumphon National Park Headquarters is located a little over 20 km from downtown Chumphon, which is about a half hour drive. Chumphon itself is about 650 km south of Bangkok, which takes anywhere between 6-8 hours depending on traffic. Chumphon does, however, have an airport, which is becoming more popular due to Chumphon's …
Mu Ko Ranong National Park – Ranong
Situated in Ranong province, several hours north of the more popular and well-known Thai provinces of Phuket and Phang Nga, Mu Ko Ranong National Park is a marine national park that - as its Thai name suggests - entails the Ranong archipelago, and some of the adjacent mainland. Within the national park lies Koh Phayam, …
Khao Luang National Park (incl. Krung Ching) – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Khao Luang National Park is situated in Nakhon Si Thammarat province in southern Thailand, and housed within this national park is southern Thailand's tallest mountain, Khao Luang, with an elevation of around 1800 metres above sea level. In February 2019 I traveled down to the area with the ambition of climbing to the summit - …
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Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary – Loei
About 100 km east - a two hour drive - from Phu Suan Sai National Park in Loei province, and about an hour west - 50-60 km depending on the route - from Loei's provincial capital is Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, which houses Loei's tallest mountain at a little under 1600 metres and is well-known …
Khlong Tamru salt pans – Chonburi
About 70-odd kilometres southeast of downtown Bangkok - about 1 hour on the raised expressway - in the province of Chonburi, there is a site filled with fishponds and salt pans that despite its proximity to the capital, doesn't seem to be on too many birder's radars, especially international birders. Despite the 'unpopular' status of …
Lat Krabang Paddies – Bangkok
Lat Krabang (LK) rice paddies consists of an area of open country that includes rice fields, reed beds, and fish ponds found not too far from Bangkok's Suwarnabhumi International Airport. In the past, reed beds represented a large portion of the western part of this area, but in late-2019/early-2020, a lot of these reed beds …
Northern Trip – January 2020
With a ten-day break over Chinese New Year, I decided to finally head to an area of Thailand I'd previously not visited - the far north. My plan originally included stopping at Doi Chiang Dao (where I have previously visited) to hike to the summit, but only a few weeks before this trip started, I …
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