Hidden Thailand: 11 Day (trip)
Hidden Thailand: 11 Day
- Bangkok Airport Bangkok Thailand
- Culture & Nature
| from $3,398* per person | 11 Days | October-April, June |
| Comfort accommodations | Exertion level: 3 | |
| Operator: Wild Planet Adventures | 12 people max | |
Before venturing off the beaten path, your adventure starts with a taste of Thailand's exotic culture in Chiang Mai with a visit to a unique elephant camp, exclusive Interaction with tigers at a tiger resuce center, a choice of Thai cooking school or a visit to a cloudforest birdwatcher's paradise and a Buddhist temple, plus Thailand's famous night bazaars and much more! Our Hidden Thailand itinerary includes many of Wild Planet's special touches, including:
Includes more value than any other professional wildlife tour, including bird & wildlife viewing in over 3 National Parks and Wildlife Preserves, and an exclusive excursion to Klong Seang Wildlife Sanctuary featuring a floating raft-house aqua lodge. Day and night safaris by foot, kayak, and long tail boat highlight the unprecidented wildlife which includes clouded leopards, elephants, tigers, 4 species of primates including gibbons, langurs, macaques, slow loris and much more! If you're the type of traveler that appreciates finding hidden gems, you''ll love this rare experience of a country known for its sensual food, joyful people, south-sea islands and exotic wildlife.
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Locations visited/nearby
Thailand, Southeast Asia
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3 testimonials about the provider, Wild Planet Adventures:
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Reviewer: Cal Boudreaux
located in
Costa Rica
"Fodors is absolutely right - your Costa Rica Ultimate Wildlife EcoTour is a "Top 10 Must-Do Trip". My family and I thoroughly enjoyed the extremely well planned itinerary. Our local naturalist guide, who took care of our wants every step of the way, was exceptional. The food was delicious. We all returned home with many wonderful and thrilling experiences and memories. I truly feel that we have fully experienced Costa Rica in its natural beauty and pristine splendor. This was an expedition of a lifetime!"
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Reviewer: Rafael Rovirosa
located in
Costa Rica
“Once again everything was perfect on our Peru trip, especially the Amazon segment, which was spectacular. Our guide was a biologist who truly loved the rainforest and knew a lot about the plants and animals we saw. The lodges were excellent, and the service was remarkable. Just like our Costa Rica trip with Wild Planet two years ago, this trip was an incredible experience!”
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Reviewer: George & Judy Martin,
located in
Thailand
"Exciting is an understatement! We searched for and found wild elephants, ate delicious Thai food in the jungle, snorkeled in the waters at Talu island, rode an elephant into the River Kwai and more! There were so many remarkable moments. The highlight for us was, of course, the tigers!
Itinerary
Day 1 BangkokArrive Bangkok airport, meet our staff and transfer straight to your hotel. Evening free at your leisure. Dinner on your own.
Overnight: Bhuthorn, Arun Residence or similar.
Day 2 Bangkok / Chaing Mai - Elephant Camp, Tiger Rescue Center
Spend an amazing day feeding, bathing and learning about elephants at an eco-responsible elephant camp. Play with them in the river, then float downstream on a bamboo raft. You will not believe how much fun this experience is, and how much it will open your heart to learn about these incredibly social animals! Later visit a tiger rescue center where you can play with the baby tiger cubs and learn how to interact safely with the adults. Enjoy playing with them, feeding them and taking photos with them. A Wild Planet Adventures Exclusive! This evening explore Chiang Mai night bazaar, famous for hand made items and Thai silks.
Highlights: Visit an Elephant Camp and play with Elephants in a river. Visit a tiger sanctuary and play with baby tiger cubs!
Wildlife: Tigers! Elephants! Sunbirds.
Day 3 Chiang Mai - Choice of Cooking School or Cloudforest & Buddhist Temple
Chiang Mai is the most culturally significant city in Northern Thailand, once part of the ancient Silk Road. Enjoy a phenomenal cooking class led by a world-renowed professional Thai chef who will teach you to prepare tasty Thai dishes. Or choose early morning wildlife viewing and birdwatching at Doi Inthanon National Park, home to the largest number of bird species in Thailand, including the endemic Green-tailed Sunbird. Beautiful Asian orchids adorn its cloudforest ad Gibbons, deer and Siamese Hares are sometimes seen. Then visit Doi Suthep, a Buddhist temple that is a landmark of Chiang Mai and nearby waterfalls. This evening enjoy a Khantok Dinner, Northern style, with a fantastic Thai dance show.
Overnight: Lanna Mantra Ping River Hotel
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4 Klong Seang Wildlife Sanctuary
Transfer to Chiew Lan Dam where we'll take a long-tail boat to our exciting floating raft-house aqua lodge. Overnight: Keereewarin floating rafthouse aqua lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5 and 6 Klong Seang Wildlife Sanctuary
Wild Planet Adventures Exclusive:
The Klong Seang Wildlife Sanctuary has been nearly inaccessible until recently. Previously, the only way to see the wildlife required hours of travel by long-tail boat, which can scare away some of the more shy and rare animals. Special arrangements exclusive to Wild Planet Adventures now allow you to explore this rich wildlife sanctuary silently, by kayak, in addition to long-tail boat. The result is yet another reason why travelers with Wild Planet Adventures see more wildlife than anyone else, including recent sightings here of the elusive clouded leopard!
Enjoy boat safaris to see the wildlife in the early morning. Have breakfast at the Klong Seang sanctuary, then enjoy wildlife viewing, hiking in the rainforest, kayaking or swimming. Before dark enjoy another boat safari to spotlight nocturnal animals. Dinner and overnight at Keereewarin floating raft-house aqua-lodge.
Overnight: Keereewarin floating raft-house aqua-lodge
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7 Klong Seang Wildlife Sanctuary / Had Yai - Pak Bara
After breakfast leave Keereewarin aqua-lodge and return to Chiew Lan Dam pier. Enroute visit a spectacular grotto that showcases some of the lake's most beautiful limestone karst (Thai Kuilin) and enjoy time to kayak amongst the spectacular limestone formations. After lunch transfer to Pak Bara pier, Satul province.
Overnight: Laguna Resort
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8, 9 and 10 Ko Lipe Island, Ko Tarutau Archipelago
Enjoy 3 full days on this remote south sea archipelago of islands, featuring the best snorkeling available in all of Thailand. Visit the inner islands one day and the outer islands the next day, including Koh Dong, Hin Sone, Hin Ngam Island (which means "beautiful rock") Iabang, Pung Yai, Pung Noi, and the Adung Islands. Colorful tropical fish abound! These remote islands are one of the only places left in Thailand where you can still snorkel amongst soft and hard corals. Late afternoon return to your lodge on Ko Lipe Island.
Overnight: Bandaya Resort, Superior Bungalow (or choose to upgrade to Serendipity Resort at additional cost)
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 11 Ko Lipe / Bangkok
Return to the mainland in time to transfer to the airport for your flight back to Bangkok, arriving back in Bangkok at approximately 5:00pm.
Meals : Breakfast
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