Inside a Tropical Rainforest. Khao Sok.

In a country once covered by lush rainforest, Khao Sok is one of the few places in Thailand where you can visit an actual rainforest. Sure, the rest of Thailand is still lush and green, but in truth most of the indigenous rainforest has been replaced with farmlands, rubber and palm oil plantations. Though Southeast Asia has the oldest rainforests in the world, these are also the rainforests the most at risk for destruction – logging, hunting, overpopulation, political instability – all factors in an ongoing biological catastrophe.

 
Khao Sok is a pocket of mostly untouched rainforest in southern Thailand, where gibbons, hornbills, and even tigers still exist in their natural habitat. Being able to live a few days in the rainforest is an experience of a lifetime. The gibbon calls at the crack of dawn, the tropical downpours…or sometimes just staring up into the dense canopy above, these are some of the things that make Khao Sok unforgettable. Click here for the gallery.