Category: Thailand
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Kuri Buri National Park
We rented a car to travel to the Kui Buri National Park for a half day elephant Safari. Although this national park does not allow any hiking it provides a unique opportunity to see beautiful landscape and it is the best place to spot elephants in the wild. We shared our tour with a Canadian…
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Bangkok
On the final day of Songkran, we travel to Bangkok as we were planning to go to the Canadian Embassy to collect and submit our electoral ballots. It was pouring rain that day, because we were staying in a hotel, and had already experienced the full frenzy of Songkran we were hopeful to avoid the…
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Songkran Festival – Thai New Year Celebrations
We were very lucky to experience the Buddhist/Hindu celebration of Songkran, known as the water festival, that honour the Thai New Year in Hua Hin. This festival, celebrated widely throughout Southeast Asia is based on a Zodiac calendar, it has strong religious, cultural and family components. In recent years it has been popularized into a…
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Kaeng Krachan National Park
We rented a car for a few days to go on a little road trip and explore some of western Thailand. Our goal was to reach Kaeng Krachan, the largest national park in Thailand, it has also been declared a UNESCO world Heritage site, and borders Myanmar. We are very saddened by the terrible earthquake…
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Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park
We had a little bit later start to the day than we had planned as Sophie was working on a food science project which we all enjoyed for lunch. On our way to the park, we check the time discovering it closed at 3 PM which was the time Google map estimated we would be…
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Wildlife Friends Foundation
This was a fantastic day trip, although we were frustrated that they could not give us a more specific time for pick up. We waited for 30 minutes in very hot sun at the gate of our complex. Our car journeyed for over an hour to the rescue Foundation. The ride there and back was…