Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park - Nationalpark Khao Sam Roi Yot

Phraya Nakhon Cave
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Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park

The Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park(Thai: อุทยานแห่งชาติ เขา สาม ร้อย ยอด) is a national park in the Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in the southern part of Central Thailand. Opened in 1966, the park is 98.8 square kilometers.

background

history

King Mongkut (Rama IV.), Who was very interested in the natural sciences, invited several guests on August 18, 1868 to observe the solar eclipse he had calculated in the area of ​​today's Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park. The sun actually darkened at the calculated time, but the monarch caught malaria in the swamps, from which he died two weeks later.

Later kings also visited Sam Roi Yot, especially the Phraya Nakhon cave. The cave actually consists of two caves, the larger of which is impressively illuminated by the sun's rays through a large hole in the ceiling. The Kuha Karuhas Pavilion was built for the visit of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1890. Later King Vajiravudh (Rama VI.) As well as the current King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX.) Came here.

The national park was opened on June 28, 1966. On April 1, 1982, it was enlarged to its present size.

landscape

The name means Khao Sam Roi Yot 300 mountain peakswhich describes the landscape quite well. The rugged limestone hills rise up to 605 meters in height directly from the Gulf of Thailand. The western part of the park is made up of approximately 36.8 square kilometers of freshwater marshland (ทุ่ง สาม ร้อย ยอด) taken. There are mangrove swamps on the coast.

There are two beaches in the park, Hat Laem Sala and the slightly larger Hat Sam Phraya near the park headquarters at Ban Khao Daeng.

Bang Pu Bay

Flora and fauna

Plant species

  • Portia tree (Thespesia populnea)
  • Calophyllum inophyllum
  • Manilkara hexandra
  • Diospyros mollis
  • Wrightia tomentosa
  • Dracaena loureiroi
  • Diospyros bejaudii
  • Afzelia xylocarpa
  • Rhizophora mucronata
  • Rhizophora apiculata
  • Ceriops decandra
  • Xylocarpus granatum
  • Avicennia marina

Animal species

Individual specimens of the rare goat-like Goral species with common English names "Mainland Serow" (Nemorhaedus sumatraensis), the long-tailed macaque and the southern long-tailed langur populate the beach and the area around the park headquarters, sometimes even an Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) come over here. Other rare animal species that have been sighted here are species of the loris, leopards and the banded linsong.

This national park is also home to a wide variety of birds, including up to 28 species of larger waterfowl, the white-bellied sea eagle, and various species of storks Herons were observed here.

environment

Phraya Nakhon Cave with the Kuha Karuhas Pavilion

The park is ruthlessly exploited in some places, so even international environmental organizations have voiced their concerns. Most threatened are the 40 km² large marshland, in which numerous shrimp farmers have settled. On the one hand, the wetlands are dried out through the drainage channels of the breeding tanks, on the other hand the soil is permanently damaged by antibiotics and salt water.

The marshland is the largest of its kind in Thailand and is also listed as worthy of protection in the Asian Wetlands Directory of the International Union for Conservation and Natural Resources (IUCN).

getting there

Khao Sam Roi Yot Park is about 320 kilometers south of Bangkok, and it takes about four hours by car via Highway 4. In Amphoe Pranburi turn left, the entrance to the park is another 20 kilometers away.

The Phraya Nakhon Cave is about a 30-minute walk from Bang Pu. From the park bungalows on the beach it is about 20 minutes over a dry, stony brook steeply uphill and then again 15 minutes steeply down into the cave.

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mobility

Tourist Attractions

activities

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literature

  • Vasa Sutthipibul (et al., Ed.): National parks in Thailand. National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok 2006, ISBN 974-286087-4
  • Denis Gray (among others): National Parks of Thailand. Communications Resources Ltd., Bangkok 1991, ISBN 974-88670-9-9

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