A La Carte menu: Activities around Saraburi and Khao Yai National Park
The programme is flexible and can be tailored to your wishes.
We can provide a fully catered trip with transport and accommodation bookings, or you can choose just to enjoy our amazing activities and really make the most of your visit to a real adventure playground and Thailand's first UNESCO world heritage centre and premier National Park.
Option 1 Half day, full day or 2 days with an ovenight stay in a National Park bungalow.
Trekking through Khao Yai National Park. We will arrange National Park rangers and guide you through some of the best trails in the Park. Home to roughly 2,500 plant species and over 800 animal species, including wild Asian elephants, gaur/banteng, and various hornbills and with 2 spectacular waterfalls. Hornbills, gibbons, elephants and monkeys are amongst animals often seen on the trail. Night safari available.
Option 2 Kayak journey down the Pasak river. Half or full day, The river meanders through limestone country through gorges, and past sandy beaches, a fruit bat colony, the occasional monitor lizard, freshwater springs and wooded river banks populated by a huge variety of birds. There is no white water, just a smooth and powerful current pulling you along making for easy paddling on our big and stable two-person sit-on-top kayaks.
Option 3. Half day. Rock climbing and abseiling at Petcharat Camp. Our own steel-bolted climbing area on sound limestone rock offers a variety of short, top roped climbs and a thrilling abseil through a pothole into a cave. This activity can be expanded into a full day exploring the caves and hikes through the area or by learning to cook in bamboo over an open fire with our jungle cooking activity.
Option 4. Hike to a waterfall and swim. Half day. Two options, an easy circuit along the river bank and a swim with lifeguards on duty at the popular Jed Sao Noi waterfall National Park near Muak Lek or a proper hike to the Jedkod Yai waterfall with a big plunge pool surrounded by forest.
Option 5 Cave exploration. Half day. The Wat Tham Photisat cave system has caves at 3 levels. The top two are dry with the top one containing a shrine with an ancient Buddhist relief rock carving on the wall. The lowest one will have a stream during periods of heavy rain and may retain pools of water during the rainy season but goes right through the mountain for 1.5 km to emerge in a spectacular valley 40km from the start by road. All 3 caves have magnificent flowstone formations and are big enough to walk through standing up with no tight squeezes or sections requiring crawling. Can be expanded to a full day with a hike through the valley after the cave through the mountain.
Option 6. Khorat Geopark. Half day. Prehistoric rock paintings and crazy sandstone towers and slot canyons. A gentle circular hike along the forested hillside above the Lam Takhong reservoir in an area which has been inhabited for thousands of years. Ancient and more modern artifacts carved into the wind and water sculptured rocks. As an afternoon activity this can be combined with watching the emergence of a million bats from a nearby cave at dusk.
Option 7. White water raft/kayak on the Muak Lek river. Half day. This is a high adrenaline activity shooting the falls and rapids on the Muak Lek river. It needs the right water conditions and is at its best early in the rainy season bfore the water in the reservoir gets too high. Safe and stable 2/3 person inflatable kayak style rafts allow you to negotiate the rapids of this pretty river with a low risk of a capsize and swim. You can safely paddle yourself or have a guide help you if you prefer.
Weekend fixed itinerary trips
1. Khao yai National Park
Friday evening:
16.00 to 17.30 Collect from airport/hotels
19.30 Arrive at Petcharat Resort. Meet the team. Welcome drinks and snacks. information
Saturday program.
08.30 Travel to the Park
09.30 Hike the km33 trail
12.30 Lunch at the National Park Restaurant
13.30 Hike the Pa Gluai Mai- Hew Suwat trail
17.30 Evening meal (included in price)
19.00 Elephant and Gaur safari
Overnight in the Park national Park bungalow.
Sunday program.
06.00 Drive up to Pa Dieow Dai viewpoint for birdwatching
08.00 breakfast at the accommodation (included in price).
09.00 Reservoir to Nong Pak Chee trails with lunch at the National Park Restaurant
15.30 Leave the park and head back to Bangkok.
4 day fixed itinerary trips
Day 1:
06.00 to 08.00 Collect from airport/hotels
10.30 Arrive at the accommodation. Meet the team. Welcome drinks and snacks. information
11.00 Leave for Pasak River, lunch en route.
12.30 Kayak the Pasak River.
16.30 Return to accommodation.
Day 2
08.30 Leave for Khorat Geopark.
09.30 Khorat Geopark and rock painings
11.00 leave for Khao Yai N.P.
12.00 Lunch at the National Park Restaurant.
13.00 Hikes in the Park
17.00 Dinner in the Park (included in the trip)
18.30 Night Safari
19.30 Return to accommodation
Day 3.
08.30 Leave for Wat Tham Photisat caves
09.15 Cave exploration,
11.00 leave for Petcharat.
11.30 Jungle cooking. Cook and eat lunch.
13.30 Abseil into a cave
14.30 Rock climbing
16.30 Barbecue at Petcharat.
19.00 Return to accommodation
Day 4.
08.30 Leave for Jedkod Yai Waterfall.
09.15 Hike to the waterfall and swim
12.00 Lunch
1400 Return to Bangkok.
Important: These itineraries are liable to change at short notice due to factors beyond our control.
With all trips, operational constraints, weather conditions or other safety factors may require us to alter timings or substitute alternative activities for the ones on the programme. The itineraries described here are therefore not binding on the company. We will do our best to provide the activities as described and will explain the reasons if we are unable to do so. In booking the trip you are accepting this.