Thursday, November 30, 2023

We slept reasonably well at the Phu Wanalee Resort. When we just woke up we hear a lot of noise, it seems to come from the roof of the room. We look outside and we see a bunch of pigeons walking around on the roof.
The breakfast is mediocre, just like the day before yesterday. We skipped the coffee.

Today we check out and go back to Bangkok, not via the highway but via the Khao Yai National Park.
The entrance to the park is quickly found, it is a fifteen-minute drive from the resort. As usual with national parks in Thailand, Tom pays the main price Thb 400, the car is only Thb 30 and Pia can enter for free because she is older than 65.
To the park headquarters is a 20 km drive, a winding road that is often quite steep. There are beautiful viewpoints along the way, warnings everywhere about elephants that we have not seen, and often monkeys that we have seen.
At the headquarters we look around in a shop, drink good Khao Yai coffee and then see a suspension bridge over a river. The bridge turns out to be the start of a 1200 meter walk through the jungle, which we are going to walk. The path is more or less asphalted, sometimes steeply uphill, and there are signs with explanations along the route.
Along the way we meet a large Asian family, including grandma in a wheelchair and grandpa with a walking stick. It is brave of these people as the route is not suitable for wheelchair users, the asphalt is uneven, there are steps and the slopes are sometimes steep.
A nice walk for us, 1200 meters seems short, but with the slopes, the heat and the humidity (it's not that bad here) it is still quite a stretch.
Back at the headquarters we buy some anti-insect spray in the shop. We leave the rest of the souvenirs, shirts, caps, hats, stickers, key rings, etc. for what they are.

We drive further, not the way back but straight ahead towards Prachinburi. Another winding road with slopes, but now downhill.
On the way we stop at a waterfall, but we don't get close to it because of a path with very steep slopes.

Then we drive on, the phone shows us the way, sometimes on quite bad roads. Because Google does not recognize Moue's address, we indicated the airport as the destination.
Pia makes an appointment on the way to go to the hairdresser tomorrow.
We missed lunch, so we finally arrive near Hua Ta Kee at about four o'clock. There we drive straight to Krua Rabiengnaam where we have a tasty meal. Around eight o'clock we are back at the family in Lat Krabang.

Written on: 2023-12-01

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