Khao Sok National Park

Rain, rain, rain sun for a few minutes then more rain that has been the trend during the past two days however this has not dampened our spirits and we have enjoyed two days of real rain forest and an over night stop on the lake.

We arrived at Khao Sok on Monday afternoon we managed to locate the guy who drove us to Nung's house a series of huts set back in the rain forest. After dropping our hut in our new home we made our way to have a look at what tours were available and found a two day one night jungle trek and lake exploration with an over night stay.

All immodiomed up I decided the tour was definitely achievable and off we set.

Over to Jen

After an hour and half driving to the National park in the back of a 4 by 4 with 4 other people then a long tail boat ride of about 45 mins. That showed us the amazing scenery of huge mountains covered in many different trees and emerald blue water. We saw some floating huts on bamboo as this turn out this was home for the night. I think we were all a bit amazed and a little shocked when we all realised there were no fly nets in the one room hut!! The afternoon was spent chilling out and swimming and canoeing on the lake.

We also had our first guided forest trek that afternoon and Alex managed to get a tag along friend, a leech on his leg!

After walking on the track with everyone slipping and sliding everywhere we boarded what can only be described as bamboo sticks on the water with a engine strapped on the back and were taken across to a large cave full of many stalactites and stalagmites and the odd bat! We then did the reverse of the above, bamboo thing, slip-slide mud, boat, back to the floating hut.

7am was our time to be up the next day as we tried to see what animals were about. So by 7.15pm we were on the longboat on our way and got to see many hornbills (birds) and a handful of monkeys jumping about in the trees.

As it was raining we headed into the rainforest allowing its thick canopy layer to shelter us, so off we trekked and on finding a wild pigs tracks the guide decided that we follow, so winding up and down through dense bush we went!

It was very slippery in parts to which Jen found out by falling rather hard on a rock on her bum!

All the colour drained from her face and I thought she might faint but after a few moments she was okay and we carried on managing to see many spiders webs and a buffalo spider and also hearing monkeys swinging about the trees above.

At the end of the trek we had time for one last swim in the lake and to say good bye before heading back to Nungs house where we still are currently.