We Saw WILD ELEPHANTS! Hua Hin, Pranburi Forest Park, Kui Buri National Park, Thailand Travel Vlog

Описание: In this Thailand Travel Vlog we finally succeeded in seeing wild elephants!!! We previously went to Khao Yai National Park in search of wild elephants, but we didn't get lucky that day. Many of you commented and told us we should go to Kui Buri National Park - which is what we did today!
We left Bangkok for the weekend and stayed in Hua Hin which is the perfect place to start this day trip to Kui Buri National Park!
In Hua Hin we rented a tuktuk/truck for the day. As you can only go on the elephant safari between 2pm-5pm, we decided to stop at a couple places on the way to Kui Buri.
Our first stop was at Wat Tham Khao Tao. We had seen pictures of the cute little temple in the middle of a lake before, but it was actually so much bigger than we expected! After the lake temple, there is also a huge cave temple right next to the ocean! They're both really pretty and definitely worth checking out if you're in Hua Hin!
After the temple we continued 10 minutes down the road to the Pranburi Forest Park. We wanted to go to the park for the boardwalk through the mangrove forest, however this also ended up being SO MUCH COOLER than we expected!!!! Not only is he Pranburi Forest Park actually a very big forest, it's a huge forest on the beach that you can go camping at!!! Also in the middle of the mangrove forest boardwalk you can rent a boat to take you through the mangrove forest! While we didn't have time to do that this trip, it is definitely on our to do list - along with camping on the beach!
After the Pranburi Forest Park, we headed to Kui Buri National Park to see the elephants!
It is a bit confusing to plan a trip here as we started at the wildlife observation area (not the actual national park according to google maps). You can also only do the elephant safari tour from 2pm-5pm. You can't take your own car and you can't make reservations.. Luckily we didn't have any issues showing up and paying for a truck. There is one price for the national park entrance, another small fee to park, and the 850 baht is per safari truck (1-6 people) which comes with a guide. It was so worth it, as you can see in our video!!! The guides all have walky-talkies so they can let each other know when they spot wildlife. Due to this we were able to see over 20 wild elephants!!! It was an amazing trip that we would definitely recommend to anyone! We also saw an endangered wild gaur (bos gaurus) or Indian Bison!
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00:37 leaving Hua Hin
00:56 arriving at Wat Tham Khao Tao
01:50 temple by the ocean
02:15 temple in the lake
03:13 Pranburi Forest Park
04:11 Pranburi mangrove boardwalk
04:51 boats in the mangrove forest
05:36 Pranburi Forest observation tower
06:55 Thai street food
07:31 heading to Kui Buri
08:34 Kui Buri Wildlife observation area
09:14 our elephant safari truck
10:47 our first wild elephant!!!
12:24 more wild elephants!
13:40 baby wild elephants!
14:47 wild buffalo
16:25 Kui Buri viewpoint
17:30 rare wild Gaur
18:18 so many wild elephants!!!
19:45 leaving Kui Buri
20:20 cute dog at the bathroom
21:00 back to Hua Hin

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