An untouched expanse of tropical forest, home to sun bears, leopards, gibbons, and abundant birds. The montane forests are home to secretive mammals while the native lowland forest offers great birding with many hides.
Kaeng Krachan is Thailand’s largest national park, covering 2,914 square kilometres and forms part of the country’s western forest complex of protected sites. It's also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and among the most diverse wildlife sites in the country. Most of the park is forested and includes a mixture of semi-evergreen and dry evergreen forests, deciduous dipterocarp in the lower reaches and moist evergreen and montane forests in the higher more mountainous sections of the park.
It's a fine example of the fauna and flora of the Indo-Malayan ecoregion with an exciting range of mammals, birds, reptiles and butterflies on offer. Being densely forested, wildlife viewing requires more patience but many species are frequently observed along the park’s roadsides, coming to ponds in the dry season and at dedicated wildlife hides.
Birdlife is the most conspicuous and includes some striking species found at different elevations with some highlights including the Oriental pied hornbill, black-and-red broadbill, grey peacock pheasant and Tickell’s blue flycatcher. There's an extraordinary number of mammals found in the park, with some rarely seen, but also plenty that are more frequently observed including lar gibbon, dusky leaf monkey, stump-tailed macaque, lesser mouse deer, Malayan porcupine and several species of civet. With more time and luck, leopards, marbled cats, sun bears, Asian elephants and yellow-throated martens may be encountered.
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