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Best national parks in Thailand

Thailand has more than a hundred and fifty national parks, and the ones in this catalogue divide into sea and forest. The marine parks of the Andaman coast are the famous ones: Ao Phang Nga with James Bond Island, the Phi Phi group with Maya Bay, the Similan and Surin islands for divers, Ko Lanta and Tarutao further south. They are visited by speedboat or longtail on day trips from Phuket, Krabi and Khao Lak, and the park fee for foreigners, a few hundred baht, is often collected in cash on top of the tour price.

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Than Bok Khorani National Park

Thailand

Than Bok Khorani is a national park in the north of the province of Krabi, in southern Thailand, and it consists of two…

79 tickets & tours

Ao Phang Nga National Park

Thailand

Ao Phang Nga is the bay of limestone towers between Phuket and Krabi that Hollywood made famous as the setting for a…

73 tickets & tours

Doi Inthanon National Park

Thailand

Doi Inthanon is the highest mountain in Thailand and the most visited national park in the north, sixty kilometres from…

72 tickets & tours

Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park

Thailand

The Phi Phi islands are protected as the Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park, and the park fee is collected…

37 tickets & tours

Tarutao National Park

Thailand

Tarutao is a marine park of fifty-one islands in the Andaman Sea, in the far south-west of Thailand, off the coast of…

31 tickets & tours

Khao Yai National Park

Thailand

Khao Yai is Thailand's first national park, two and a half to three hours north-east of Bangkok, and it is sold…

27 tickets & tours

Mu Ko Surin National Park

Thailand

The Surin islands are a group of five forested granite islands in the Andaman Sea, about sixty kilometres off the west…

21 tickets & tours

Khao Sok National Park

Thailand

Khao Sok is the rainforest park between Phuket, Khao Lak and Surat Thani in southern Thailand, two hours from Khao Lak…

16 tickets & tours

Mu Ko Chang National Park

Thailand

Mu Ko Chang is the marine park around Ko Chang and its fifty islands in Trat province near the Cambodian border, five…

13 tickets & tours

Erawan National Park

Thailand

Erawan is the waterfall park sixty-five kilometres north-west of the town of Kanchanaburi in western Thailand, three to…

5 tickets & tours

Mu Ko Lanta National Park

Thailand

Ko Lanta is the long, easy-going island in the south of Krabi province, reached by car ferry and bridge from the…

5 tickets & tours

Mae Wang National Park

Thailand

Mae Wang is a district of forested hills and river valleys about an hour's drive south-west of Chiang Mai, in…

4 tickets & tours

Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Thailand

Doi Suthep is the forested mountain that rises directly behind the city of Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, and the…

1 ticket or tour

Similan Islands National Park

Thailand

The Similans are a line of small granite islands in the Andaman Sea, some sixty-five kilometres off the west coast of…

1 ticket or tour

The important fact is the closed season. The Similans and Surin shut from mid-May to mid-October, Maya Bay closes for two months in the monsoon, and swimming there is no longer allowed at all. The Gulf side, with Ang Thong off Samui and Ko Chang near Cambodia, has the opposite weather pattern.

Inland, Khao Yai is the first and best wildlife park, three hours from Bangkok; Khao Sok has the Cheow Lan reservoir and its floating bungalows; Erawan’s seven-tier waterfall is a day from Bangkok or Kanchanaburi; and Doi Inthanon, the highest point in the country, and Doi Suthep-Pui are the standard day trips from Chiang Mai, at their best from November to February.

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