3 days deep in the jungle - 500 Rai

So it's been a few days since the last blog. Well that's because we
took a 2 hour bus ride north of Krabi into the national park called
Khao Sok. From there we took the most scenic one hour boat ride up
this lake surrounded by huge mountains and thick jungle. The water was
as turquoise as any cascade lake if you've ever hiked in the northern
cascades. We then ended up at the end of one of the many fingers the
lake has. From there it was an incredibly humid half hour hike
through the jungle to another high elevation lake. We then met some
thai folks who loaded up our stuff onto this flat bamboo raft with a
lawn mower engine on it. They took us up the lake a bit to these
floating bungalows nestled into the jungle mountains where these
families live. The bungalows were 8x8 in size and had a thatched floor
that felt like it would give way at any time. These families didn't
speak a word of English but they were the friendliest most hospitable
people we've ever met in our trips to Thailand. They cooked us home
made meals every day! A typical day up there would be to kayak in the
early am to watch wildlife in the jungle canopy, eat, hang out and do
nothing, eat, do nothing, then eat and go kayaking in the evening.
The wildlife sounds you here are crazy! You basically wake up to the
whole jungle shouting "good morning". It's truly the most intense
audible experience you can have in the wild. More intense than costa
rica was. I even have audio recordings that I made of the female
gibbons giving there mating calls! Daily in the morning or evening
you would watch the langur monkeys leap from tree to tree, eating
fruit. Countless bird species are active at all times of the day. We
also went on a night time jungle safari and saw a herd of Red Bull,
which are very rare. Yes it's the animal on the energy drink. It would
poor rain at night and clear up by morning. There's so much more to
tell in detail about this little adventure. Definitely visit khao
sok! No cell service, no tv, no electricity, no nothing! Just a
thatched group of floating bamboo bungalows and nature all around you.