Khao Khitchakut National Park - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting
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About Khao Khitchakut National Park
The park covers a rich, verdant forestland of some 58 square kilometers where many herbal plants and wildlife are found. On the top hill, there also Khitchakut Temple where people will flock there every year from February to April to worship the giant rocks on the summit where there is a trace of Buddha's footprint which believes will bring them prosperities.
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Cathedral of Immaculate Conception Chanthaburi
25.56km from Khao Khitchakut National Park
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is one of the highlights of a visit to Chanthaburi regardless of whether you are religious or not. There has been a Catholic church in Chanthaburi for more than 300 years although the present building only dates back to the early 1900s. It is one of the famous church in Thailand.
Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary
30.5km from Khao Khitchakut National Park
Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary is a wilderness area, located 70 kilometres north of Chanthaburi. Its ornithological interest lies in it being the western most extent of the Cardamom Mountains stretching into Cambodia that are an important endemic bird area, holding a number of distinct species and forms, many of which in Thailand can only be found at this locality.
Namtok Phlio National Park
35.1km from Khao Khitchakut National Park
Namtok Phlio national park is situated in Amphoe Laem Sing on the Sa Bap Mountain Range. There are numerous plants found including Khanun Pa, Krathon Pa, Patchouli, and a lot of wild animals; such as, wild boar, serow, small Asian mongoose, tree shrew, and black bear. The Park is also a habitat of a variety of fish species.
Khao Chamao-Khao Wong National Park
43.03km from Khao Khitchakut National Park
Khao Chamao - Khao Wong National Park, is a National Park in Khao Chamao District, Rayong Province in Thailand. The park covers an area of 52,300 rai or 83.68 km² of forested mountains. North of the national park is the larger Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary. The Chamao-Wong Mountains forms a western outcrop of the much larger Cardamom Mountains, stretching east, well into Cambodia. Most of the mountain ridge is of moderate slope.
Khao Laemya National Park
77km from Khao Khitchakut National Park
Khao Laem Ya–Mu Ko Samet is a Thai marine national park in the Gulf of Thailand off the coastline of Rayong. In 1981, the Royal Forest Department declared the archipelago of Ko Samet, along with nine other small islands, the headland of Khao Laem Ya, and the 11 kilometer Mae Rampeung Beach to be a national park. In August 2013 more than 500 national park officials were deployed to destroy three resorts—Muk Samet, Unseen, and Ploy Samet—which had been built illegally in the park.
Ko Samet
79.08km from Khao Khitchakut National Park
Ko Samet is one of the eastern seaboard islands of Thailand. It is in the Gulf of Thailand off the coastline of the Thai province of Rayong, approximately 220 kilometres southeast of Bangkok. Ko Samet is part of the Phe Subdistrict of the Amphoe Mueang Rayong, of Rayong Province. Ko Samet is the largest and westernmost of a cluster of islands not far from the coast.
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Chanthaburi
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Chanthaburi is a province located in eastern Thailand. The southern part of the province is on the shore of the Gulf of Thailand and the interior of the province is mountainous.
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