Luxury Forest Trek

Duration: 2 days / 1 night

Destination: Erawan National Park, Kanchanburi Province

This jungle trek and wildlife discovery trip provides an adventurous and stimulating insight into the forests and animals of Thailand, with particular emphasis on the ecology of wild Asian elephants. We make your eco-adventure trek comfortable and exciting by providing just the right mix of adrenaline, expert nature interpretation, and more than a few creature comforts. You will stay in a deluxe tented camp deep in the forest, with dining tent, hot showers, large sleeping tents, and delicious Thai food prepared by your own field cook.

In addition to our look at the local elephant population, we will be stopping along the way to talk about much of the other fascinating flora and fauna of the area. We will see some of the forests edible plants and take a night walk to investigate the myriad of insects and other creatures that emerge after dark.

This trip takes you to Erawan National Park, a unique and rugged landscape of high elevation plateaux and steep valleys covering an area of 550 square kilometres and located three hours drive west of Bangkok. Erawan's forests support an amazing array of plants and a diverse range of wildlife, from minute brilliantly coloured insects to the mighty Asian elephant.

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Pricing

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Includes:

• Transportation and accommodation whilst on the field trip. All drinks in the forest are also included.
• Meals as indicated (B = breakfast, L = lunch, D = dinner)
• Field equipment: we provide tents, sleeping bags, sleeping bag liners, sleeping mats, field showers, first-aid equipment, climbing equipment, and other equipment necessary for activities in the field.
• Park entrance fees

Excludes:

• Connecting travel to/from Kanchanaburi
• Visa fees
• Personal insurance of any kind
• Meals other than those stated as included
• All items of a personal nature such as phone calls, tips for personal services, etc.

Note: This trip departs from Kanchanaburi. Please email us for more information regarding transfers from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi, and hotel overnight prior the trip.

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Itinerary

Day 1:
We'll meet you at the door of your Kanchanaburi hotel at 0700. After a short drive we start our journey into the heart of Erawan National Park. Our team of porters will carry both personal and group gear, leaving you free to investigate the mysteries of the tropical forest. En route to our base camp, we'll get a look at some of Erawan's 300 or so bird species, and use the mammal sign we find to get an insider's view of this unique area. After a delicious lunch prepared by our field cook and served under our spacious field tent (complete with mosquito net), we'll spend the afternoon getting to know the fauna & flora of one of Erawan's high ridges, before returning to base camp for a cold drink and a hot shower. After a relaxing dinner, we'll peel back the darkness using a lighted insect station and headlamps to get a look at the nocturnal side of life. Overnight: deluxe tented camp Meals: [L,D]

Day 2:
Our wake up call is a hot fresh cup of coffee or tea (it gets surprisingly chilly at 600m!) delivered to your tent by our camp staff. As the forest slowly wakes up, we'll be quietly climbing into our nearby tree platform for a hearty (yet portable) breakfast and a view all the way to the Burmese border. The platform is a great place to see some of the resident great hornbills and other canopy birds, and get a bird's eye view of life in the forest canopy. From here we'll also be able to hear the fascinating and complex calls of one or more gibbon family groups in the area. Next we trek deeper into the forest to a pond and wallow used by the elephants and some of the other resident wildlife. As part of our on-going elephant monitoring programme, we'll take a close look at elephant activity in this area and record information on track size (an indicator of the size of individual elephants), feeding activity, and more. A pack lunch and some time to relax after a full morning of activity is followed by a leisurely walk out of the forest to met the Wild Watch vehicles at the trailhead and be back in Kanchanaburi by 1800. Meals: [B,L]

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