Erawan National Park

Back on the bus and we are off to Erawan National Park and to swim in a waterfall.

Erawan National Park is located in West Thailand in the Tenasserim Hills range of Kanchanaburi Province, it is home to one of the most popular falls in the country.

Founded in 1975 as Thailand’s 12th National Park, it covers an area of 550 sq km.
The major attraction of the park is the 7-tiered Erawan Falls with emerald green ponds. There are also several impressive and long caves within the park, some of them deeper inside the park and a few of them along the roads around the park. The park and the falls are named after the three headed white elephant of Hindu mythology.

We only went to tier 2 pond as we preferred to swim rather than home to the top. This proved to be a good call because the 3 people in our group who hiked to the top looked dreadful when they got back to the restaurant for lunch. They did say it was worth the hike, however, there was not enough time and it was very hot.Read more