Day 02: Bangkok - Kanchanaburi - River Kwai
Pick up from hotel and depart for Kanchanaburi. Visit to JEATH War Museum,
War Cemetery and Bridge over the River Kwai. Take a historic ride on the Death Railway Train, passing lush forest. Lunch in a local restaurant. Take a "long-tail boat" from pier to get to the Jungle Rafts passing by unspoiled mountainous jungle scenery. Check-in on arrival. Visit the nearby ethnic Mon Tribal Village. Dinner, followed by a 45-minute presentation of Mon Dance and overnight at the Jungle Rafts.
Day 03: River Kwai
Early morning pick up from the Jungle Rafts transfer to an Elephant Camp for elephant riding and bamboo rafting. Then leave the camp and continue to a mountainous district of Tong Papoom. Start an off-road adventure along a 13 kms dirt road into the jungle. En route, enjoy a marvelous scenery of bamboo and teak forests. After picnic lunch, start a jungle walk into the hidden magnificent limestone waterfall inside an unspoiled natural evergreen forest. Later on, start to walk back along the same nature track. Transfer out off the forest back to the accommodation the Jungle Rafts.
Day 04: Kanchanaburi - Khao Yai National Park
Drive around the metropolis to reach Khao Yai National Park in the afternoon. Check in at the hotel. Optional (additional costs) you can start in the evening for a night drive through the forest on the look out for elephants, deer, civets, porcupine and other wildlife.
Overnight in middle class hotel close to the margins of the national park.
Day 05: Khao Yai National Park
After breakfast, go to visit a stalactic caves. Later, go to a very-beautiful spot where you have a magnificent view over the area. Then, wait for over 4 million bats to swarm out to go feeding in the area and around the national park. Return to the lodge around 7 pm.
Day 06: Khao Yai National Park - Bangkok
Around 8.30 am. drive to National Park and visit the park HQ. The driver will bring to the beginning of the trail. Here will start an easy 5 km hike in the jungle. During the hike, look-out for gibbons, hornbills and other spectacular wildlife. Later, come out of the jungle and walk in a nice grassland area where you can have a nice view from the national park. Then, drive to the Haew Suwat waterfall, famous from the movie 'The Beach' have lunch at waterfall. In the afternoon, drive up to the second highest mountain of the park to relax on a superb viewpoint. End of tour, transfer back to Bangkok.
