Thailand Encounter

Arrive in Bangkok. Transfer from the airport to your hotel.

Overnight:

The Sukhothai

Extras and options:

Bangkok walking tour
Damnoen Saduak floating market tour

A tour to visit the splendid Grand Palace complex and the Royal Temple of the Emerald Buddha where varied styles of Thai architecture are delicately woven together to enchant the viewer, see also the Coronation Hall.

Overnight:

The Sukhothai

Meals included:

Breakfast

Discover Bangkok’s surprisingly rural areas, then by bicycle is the best way to do it. A bike ride to explore the back alleyways of Chinatown and experience the unique “street life” and its lively market of this colourful neighbourhood. Afterwards take a ferry across the river and discover traditional communities with their varied ways of life, temples, mosque, church and the King Mother’s Memorial Park. Then take a long-tail boat trip along the canals before continuing by bicycle through this very rural landscape to see fruit and herb plantations then stop for a local style snacks and drinks. Return by long-tail boat and ferry back to the heart of Bangkok. Transfer to train station for overnight train to Surat Thani (1st class air-con).

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch

Arrive Surat Thani in the morning, transfer by a private pick-up truck (songthaew). Check in and after some refreshments it’s up to your tree house. After lunch go tubing down the Klong Sok in inner-tubes (depending on the season), passing dramatic mountain cliffs, with the possibility of observing the wildlife along the way and visiting a viewpoint and small waterfall. Dinner and then overnight in your tree house.

Meals included:

Lunch, Dinner

Transfer to Raja Phraba Lake and the raft houses. After lunch, enjoy a short boat excursion to a local fishing village and bat cave to enjoy swimming. Enjoy an evening walk to observe the natural nightlife of the rainforest.

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Very early morning canoe trip to search for local wildlife. Back to the rafts for breakfast followed by a late-morning boat trip and then a three-hour hike to a dramatic and panoramic view of the lake and the surrounding limestone mountains. Return to the rafts for late lunch and an afternoon to relax.

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast we get ready for departure to mainland before continuing to Krabi.

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch

We depart from the hotel at approximately 9.00am. Firstly, we enjoy some snorkeling at Koh Dam Kwan (Chicken Island) or Koh Si before swimming and sunbathing at the sand bridge between Koh Taab and Koh Dam Kwan. Picnic lunch on Poda Island Boat trip as we travel on the beautiful of Phra Nang Bay (mountain climbing, lagoon and view point) and make a visit to Phra Nang Cave. Return to hotel at approx 4.00pm.

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch

Paddle along the majestic limestone cliffs and through the mangrove forests. Experience the mangrove ecology along with wild animal sightings.
Aothalane is a bay of mangroves that may be the most beautiful in all of Thailand. Here, bays and canyons are like Passageways. In addition, there are very rich faunas. The region contains good examples of traditional villages. Certainly a highlight of this setting is are the narrow channels cut through two towering karsts complexes, which are passable during all but extreme low tide periods. Several species of Kingfishers, Little Herons and Crab-Eating Macaques sightings are almost guaranteed.

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch

Meals included:

Breakfast

At leisure until transfer to Krabi airport for flight to Bangkok. Upon arrival transfer to hotel

Overnight:

The Sukhothai

Meals included:

Breakfast

Meals included:

Breakfast