Thailand for families holiday

Planet

Kui Buri's wild elephants are famous for raiding local fruit farms. Away from their escapades, you’ll see them in the national park – alongside gaur and, if you're lucky, a flash of golden jackal. Further south, Khao Sok's canoe safari crosses a lake ringed by limestone karsts, with rainforest rising straight off the water. In Ranong, the snorkelling is between coral reefs and rainforest-backed bays.

This itinerary isn’t a straight city to beach resort hop. From Bangkok to Phetchaburi to Kui Buri to Chumphon to Ranong to Khao Sok to Khao Lak – you’ll journey overland. And this is where you’ll see so much of Thailand you’d skip over otherwise: mangrove boardwalks in Chumphon, a community coffee stop in Gong Valley, and protected landscapes most family itineraries only skim past.

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People

In this itinerary you will visit some Bangkok neighbourhoods which are far away from the commercial side of the city and rarely visited by foreign tourists. Here you’ll have opportunities to meet local people and learn about a different side to one of the most iconic tourist destinations in the world.

Travelling overland to Southern Thailand, from the capital, will also give you an opportunity to stop by some little-visited rural communities who are engaging in sustainability initiatives designed to protect the environment and provide a sustainable source of income for the villagers. Community members will be keen to show you the positive impacts these projects are having which in turn can help to raise their profile. In Kui Buri you’ll learn about sustainable cottage industries, such as elephant dung paper making, rubber tapping and silk processing. In the Gong Valley you’ll learn about chemical-free coffee growing.

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