× Over 400 species of birds are known to occur within the Park’s boundaries, and 57 mammals. Larger mammals include elephant, gaur, sambar deer, banteng, serow, and bear, indo-chinese tiger, leopard, both common and Fea’s muntjac. Malayan tapir, white-handed gibbon, dusky and banded langurs, Asian wild dog, otter, and wild boar.
Panoenthung
01 Nov 2016 20:51 - 01 Nov 2016 20:52 #4010 by Paul T
Panoenthung was created by Paul T
As some of you know, I am extremely fortunate in that I was allowed access to some of Kaeng Krachan during the closed season. Panoenthung is, as everyone knows, one of Kaeng Krachan National Park's highlights. However as a highlight it also has a lot of visitors which makes it very noisy especially during weekends and not somewhere one would expect to see mammals. But visitors regularly see at least a couple of wild but habituated species, especially the porcupines.
This year, with the park, we installed cameras for a month to see what we could find - we were most interested in getting a picture of the clouded leopard that is known to the area. A full body clouded leopard picture has so far evaded us (and still does!) and we desperately wanted to get one on record. We had a couple of cameras spare and as the park was closed we decided to just concentrate on a tourist hotspot - the orchid trail. We did not expect a lot - it being a tourist trail and even being concreted in some areas, but we had a few pleasant surprises both on this well visited short trail and in the campsite as well.
Lets start with a dreamy view of the forest from our camping area on Panoenthung to set the scene ..............
This year, with the park, we installed cameras for a month to see what we could find - we were most interested in getting a picture of the clouded leopard that is known to the area. A full body clouded leopard picture has so far evaded us (and still does!) and we desperately wanted to get one on record. We had a couple of cameras spare and as the park was closed we decided to just concentrate on a tourist hotspot - the orchid trail. We did not expect a lot - it being a tourist trail and even being concreted in some areas, but we had a few pleasant surprises both on this well visited short trail and in the campsite as well.
Lets start with a dreamy view of the forest from our camping area on Panoenthung to set the scene ..............
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03 Nov 2016 16:17 - 04 Nov 2016 20:28 #4020 by Paul T
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