Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Sights
Khao Lak/Lam Ru
National Park
( 0 7642 0243;
www.dnp.go.th
; adult/child 200/100B; 8am-4.30pm)
Immediately south of Hat
Khao Lak, the vast 125-sq-km Khao Lak/Lam Ru National Park is a collage of sea cliffs,
1000m-high hills, beaches, estuaries, forested valleys and mangroves. Wildlife includes
hornbills, drongos, tapirs, gibbons, monkeys and Asiatic black bears.
The visitors centre, just off Hwy 4 between the Km 56 and Km 57 markers, has little in
the way of maps or printed information, but there's a very nice open-air restaurant
perched on a shady slope overlooking the sea. From the restaurant you can take a fairly
easy 3km round-trip nature trail that heads along the cape and ends at often-deserted Hat
Lek beach.
NATIONAL PARK
Khlong Thap Liang
Guided hikes along the coast or inland can be arranged through many tour agencies in
town, as can long-tail boat trips up the scenic Khlong Thap Liang estuary. The latter af-
fords opportunities to view mangrove communities of crab-eating macaques.
NATURE RESERVE
