Khao Sam Roi Yot NP.
Prachuap Khiri Khan Province

       
Located in the west of Thai Gulf , in the territory of Kuiburi District, Sam Roi Yot Sub District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province .

Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park is Thailand ’s first coastal National Park in 1996, covering the area of approximately 98.8 square kilometers. The landscape is high steep limestone mountains by the beautiful coast, matching with plain area stand by the sea, which are marshy beach and shallow sea pond.

Topography

The geological characteristic here is very high steep limestone that becomes the high steep cliffs as well as the deep abyss. Khao in Thai mean mountain, In side park have the highest peak of the hills is 605 meters above the mean sea level. The most fascinating are Khao Yai, Khao Tham Prathun, Khao Daeng, Khao Khan Ban Dai and etc. The limestone land had been worn away by natural impact till became caves or abyss such as Tam Kaeo, Tam Sai, Tam Phraya Nakhon Cave and etc.

Flora and Fauna

Khao Sam Roi Yot has a variety of ecology system, composing of sea, beaches, mangrove forests, freshwater, marsh land, and limestone mountain, which make the areas are appropriated to be living place of any kind of animals, particularly birds. Plant community found are beach forests, mangrove forests, limestone-hill forests and hydropholic plant social.

Prime Time:
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park.

Birding Tour: During the winter, December to February, it is the best time to come here for watching birds. There are the migrated birds and resident birds, so it is easy to watch the birds. As the suggestion, we should spend 2 days and 1 night to stay here. We believe that it is the bird watching line from the Site No.1 of Kaeng Krachan National Park and Site No.10 of Lame Pak Bia , Par’s Farm . The total duration is 8 – 9 days. For the other month, it is suitable for watching the resident birds, which are 150 kinds of birds such as Bronze-winged Jacana , Malaysia Plover, Pied Kingfisher, Lesser Whistling-Duck, White-throated Kingfisher, Collared Kighfisher, and Oriental Pratincole.

Photography tour

The best time for taking the photograph especially birds and nature is winter, during December – February, because there is the sunshine all the day and the sky is so blue.

Accomodation : Bungalow on the beach, Hotel on the beach 3-4 star
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