31 Aug - 4 Sep 2008

After back from KL, we stayed one night in Bangkok with my uncle and then took early flight to Surat. Woh! it was so lucky! Most flights went down to the south were closed coz of the mob but not in Surat! so it's not problem to us. Saw many tourists they planned to fly to Krabi or Phuket had to change their flight to Surat. So this is first time, our flight was crowded. We arrived to Surat town, then took a van to Khao Sok, it was in between Surat and Phang-nga. On the way to Khao Sok, could see the high mountains and lush green trees both sides of the road, it was like Monkey and Gorilla back to the jungle(home) :))

We were dropped-off at the main road in front of the entrance to Khao Sok National Park but the park's still about a few kms.away from the entrance.We booked at "The Cliff & River Jungle Resort" for 4 nights! I thought it was located near the entrance to the national park but I was wrong!! It was on the main road that we already passed!! There're a small village at where we dropped, i asked a guy  if he knew our resort, he said it was pretty far from here. I told him that we would wait for the bus but he told us that it was about a couple kms away!! from the entrance coz the bus would only dropped on the main road and then we needed to walk to the resort with big bags to carry. He said he could get someone to take us there, but had to pay about 500Bt.!!! so expensive!!!! To make sure, I called and talked to the guys from resort, luckily they could come and picked us up!woohoo~!! Yeh we saw it was not far to walk from the main road to the resort!(about 200 metres only!) that guy for the place we dropped tried to scam us!!

The resort we stayed was so beautiful. Not many guests as it should be, that was good, so private for Monkey and Gorilla :) We booked the bangalow which was near the pool! We could see the nice view from our room coz it was high, but the restaurant was down there, needed to get some exercise ;P I was surprised, there were so crowded at the restaurant the last morning before we checked out! Those ppl would come from a company for seminar or something. Luckily, we were leaving soon.

During we stayed there, we went to Ratchaprapa Dam next morning. It was very nice to float along the Dam visiting a cave, little trekking and having good lunch yummy :P Next day we went to elephant riding, it was so hot and exciting coz during the ride, the elephant walked to the jungle and on the way sometimes, it's very steep, I just grabbed my seat tight! (worried about my Gorilla too coz he's just on the elephant's neck!!) We had a short stopped at a small lovely waterfall then the elephant took us back to where we started. It was very good trip, but I've got the sore back from it. xD However we had one full day left, just spent lazy day at the resort :D It's happy time for Money & Gorilla.❤❤