Khao Sok #1 Elephants

Getting up at 6am on New Year's morning is tough! I'm not sure I'm still drunk or just have a hangover....

Transfer from the clamping in the south of Phuket to Khao Sok starts early.... Point 7.25 on the 1st of January 2023 we go on.
only three days left...but let's forget that..for a moment

A little more than 3 hours lasted the journey. So now I'm standing in the rainforest and I'm about to go hiking.

Khao Sok National Park is home to around 200 of these wild elephants which roam free in the rainforest…. Elephants grow old. Up to 80 years and more. And they eat a lot: about 300kg a day. Every few years the elephants teeth fall out and they get new ones. When they reach 70, their teeth fall out for the last time and they can't eat anymore and die.
In Thailand, elephants are no longer allowed to be used for work and the upkeep of the animals is no longer affordable for the Thais. Everywhere there are "retirement homes" for elephants. Some of them are blind or have no teeth anymore... and here they are well looked after

On the first kayak tour I already met green vipers, spiders, monkeys, elephants and small crocodiles... Tomorrow morning we will go further and deeper into the rainforest. AND for the first time we won't have wifi... so the last updates from this trip will be uploaded at the airport.Read more