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Kayaking

Sea canoeing and kayaking offer an excellent opportunity to get close to the some of the most stunning natural environments.

Phuket and the Nearby Area

This fascinating world of caves and tunnels or Phuket, Krabu and Phang Na can be explored in both day trips, or longer overnight trips. There are also night tours available so you see the shapes of the limestone scenery under the stars. It will be something which you remember for a long time. If you prefer the forest, a kayaking trip through Khao Sok National Park may give you a sighting of the magnificent hornbill or a kingfisher. Which ever you choose, you certainly won't be disappointed.

Khao Sok

Here you will see the highest karst topography in Thailand with the tallest mountain being 960 meters! This dwarfs Phang Nga Bay's karst islands.

A Khao Sok National Park kayaking trip has easy waters to negotiate so the pace is very slow as the main focus of this trip is spotting wildlife. The birding in Khao Sok is superb and the wildlife sightings are astonishing.

Hornbills are actually common in this area, and you are likely to see several species - great hornbills, bushy-crested hornbills, wreathed hornbills and helmeted hornbills. But hornbills won’t be all that you see - serious birders can easily add a plethora of tropical birds to their lists after only a couple of days. A large number of kingfishers also reside in the area, along with dozens upon dozens of other colourful resident birds of Thailand.

In addition, you are quite likely to see long-tailed macaques (monkeys), pig-tail macaques, dusky langurs and even gibbons. Plus, there have been numerous close-up wild pig sightings. Orchids are plentiful but see their bloom is from late February through April. However, we the orchid plants themselves are still interesting and unique.

Phang Na

Phang Nga Bay is part of what was once a huge coral reef that covered most of what is now south east Asia. The islands of Phang Nga Bay were formed by the movements of the "plates", massive slabs of earth. At that time, the plates, were underwater and part of the coral reef. However, they were lifted out of the seas by the movement of the plates.

Phang Nga Bay is beautiful and somehow seems different in every change in weather and light. There are many secluded islands that can be explored and as the occasional fisherman is the only human ever seen, the wildlife is plentiful.

Enjoy spotting white-belly sea eagles and brahminy kites, plus pacific reef egrets, a wide variety of kingfishers, little herons, frigate birds and blue rock thrushes. You are also highly likely to see monitor lizards sunning on rocks, and crab-eating macaques on the beach or moving in trees near the water.

Samui

Samui's shoreline and nearby islands harbour a wealth of marine, animal and plant life. For a close and leisurely look, there really is no better option than to spend a day or few hours in a sea kayak.

Mu Koh Angthong National Park

This park, made famous from the movie, "the beach, is made up of 40 islands northwest of Koh Samui and covers some 250 square kilometers. The largest islands consist of large towering rock masses surrounded by crystal clear seas. Most impressive is Mae Koh which has a beautiful beach and an emerald saltwater lake called Thale Nai. Also, Sam Sai has an exciting coral reef and huge rock arch.

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