Thai One On - Day 14

• Started day off early with the most humorous breakfast of the trip. Our night stay at Phaiboon hotel (quite a nice place) included breakfast which consisted of dragon fruit and toast. Lots and lots of toast. First, we were served two plates with two pieces on each plate. When we finished that, we were brought another plate with four more pieces. Thank you for all the toast.

• Along with a Belgian couple, we rode to Khao Yai National Park with tour guide, Jay. We stopped briefly at the visitor museum where we used one of the nicest bathrooms in Thailand, saw a pretty funny sign and watched two monitor lizards laze in the sun and some deer frolic in the parking lot.

• Then we drove to the jungle trail entrance and trekked for two hours -- easily a highlight of the trip! We saw a green pit viper, two giant spiders, horn bills, millipedes, termites, two gibbons and a plethora of really large and fantastic trees. We also heard a boar tearing through the jungle, and later saw it's wreckage, but we never actually saw it.  

• While we were enjoying our tasty lunch of chicken and mixed veggies w/ rice, and red curry chicken w/ rice it started absolutely dumping rain. Fortunately, it let up by the time we finished.
  
• Visited Haew Suwat Waterfall (as seen in the movie "The Beach").

• The day trip culminated in viewing animals: barking deer, macaques, a snake, another water monitor and my favorite, a bull elephant, which we saw just before we were about to turn around and head out of the park. It was fantastic watching the gentle giant rip down trees to eat and lope along the road!

• Back in Pak Chong, we dined at Jay's wife's restaurant on chicken teriyaki, spicy chicken and wontons, all washed down with blueberry and kiwi shakes.  

• Before walking back to hotel, we stopped at night market and bought fresh mango and grapefruit.