In the Jungle

The lovely owner of the Pan Beach Bungalows organised a minibus for us to go to Khao Sok.  This time the minibus was nothing short of luxurious – very spacious, brand new with frosty air conditioning.  We arrived in not time in very good shape.

We had read about Our Jungle House, Khao Sok National Park and Chiew Laan Lake from other family travel blogs and had been on our list for a while.  We would have liked to stay in a tree house, which are built up in the tree canopy but unfortunately they did not accommodate 6 and so we had to “settle” for the riverside bungalows.  All the tree houses and bungalows are off down winding tracks in the undergrowth from the reception/restaurant area and just walking to the house, we saw mini-frogs, a squirrel and heard a number of different birds.

The bungalows whilst having doors and windows are basically open to the jungle – so a mosquito net and coils are compulsory.  The bathroom is pretty much open too and Michael swears he saw a monkey outside – nobody else can testify so we’ll just have to take his word for it!

We immediately went swimming in the fresh water creek which was a nice change from the sea and sand at Krabi.

You can go trekking in the National Park – however with 2 kids who hate walking we decided that that may be close to torture for all of us, so decided against it.  This wasn’t going to be a long stay as we had specifically come here to go to the Lake for the overnight trip to the floating lake houses.