HALF DAY: Wilde Elephant Watching @ Kuiburi National Park
13:00 hrs
Meet your English speaking Guide at the hotel lobby.
Kui Buri National Park is located next to one of the largest national parks of the country, Kaeng Krachan. Both places are rich in flora and fauna and offer habitat to animals like the tiger, elephant, gaur, deer, porcupine, monkey, wild boar and an incredible amount of bird species. Kui Buri is most famous for its wild elephant watching. Sadly, there is still a lot of deforestation around the park, which forces the elephants to move from the primary forest to secondary forest and plantation areas for feeding. The owners of the fruit plantations areas have tried many ways to chase away wild elephants, and some have even been poisoned or killed. Fortunately, these days the local people have joined with the park rangers in monitoring the wild elephants and to take them back to the forest without hurting them.
In this way, the local people can benefit from tourism, and the elephants have a chance to survive in this park.
We begin in the afternoon and drive south of Hua Hin about 1.30 hrs to KUIBURI NATIONAL PARK, then continue to the park by switching to Ranger s car.
On the way, a park ranger will give you knowledge about the ecosystem and elephant behaviour.
We will stop at the pineapple plantation. Then we will take you to the elephant monitoring zone where elephants will come to feed and bathe in the afternoon, we might see some other wild animals as well such as Gaur, Oriental Pied Hornbill.
Then return back to the hotel.