2/14/2007 ~ Kao Yai National Park

On the Rio: Deep Forest ~ Deep Weather

After the local market, the destination was Kao Yai National Park. And how did we get there? By ox cart. I hadn't been expecting this, and it was so fun to ride through the (now dry) rice fields and see new vegetation.

Here is our driver preparing the cart.

And here is my "group" ready to go. In the front our Digby and Robin from New Zealand and the guy in the back is Joe, a narcotics officer from Arizona currently on duty in Afghanistan training the police force.

Along the way were water buffalo...

And mango trees...and unidentified fruit trees...

and even a cashew tree.

The vegetation got more dense as we rode along.

Finally we reached our destination: Kao Yai National Park.

We walked a way to get to the Haew Suwat Waterfall, one of three waterfalls in the park.

There were lots of school children there on a field trip, swinging on the rope into the pool of water. Here is the source of the waterfall.