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'''Khai Yai''' is a national park in [[Thailand]].

Hitching is very easy here, even when there's more than one of you. Particularly on weekends, lots of wealthy Thais from Bangkok drive up here in their cars, so there's regular traffic.

''At one point, when we wanted to walk to a place on the road we'd seen heaps of monkeys, every second car was stopping & offering us a lift, even though we weren't hitching.''

Good-value songtheaws (open trucks with 2 benches in the back) go between Pak Chong & the main entrance of the park. However, the park entrances are more than 10kms downhill from any of the walking tracks, waterfalls, camping grounds etc. and there is no public transport at all within the park. So hitching time it is!

'''Waterfalls''': Heo Suwat in the monsoon season is a great waterfall. It's alright for swimming & very refreshing after a hike in the jungle! There's a rope swing from a tree into the pool at the bottom. Remember that the thais are conservative dressers, and people will normally just wear their clothes swimming. Bikinis will get lots of looks form the Thais! However there are often other foreigners there wearing western-style bathers too.

'''Salt licks''' are dug up patches of earth to reveal the salty clay, which the elephants love. A great opportunity to see a herd of wild elephants!

''Nighttime Animal Safari'': This ends up being a drive at night just spotlighting all the deer you can see in the day. Rarely do people see anything apart from grazing deer.

Secure you tent & food! Monkeys '''will''' raid your tent, and run away with your food! Deer will also have a go at anything left outside or at the opening your tent.

Affordable accomodation is quite bad in Khao Yai.

[[Category:Thailand]]