Yesterday we embarked on a day-long tour/trek through the rainforest jungle of Khao Yai National Park, Thailand's oldest national park. Our uneasiness over completely changing the direction of trip to come here when we heard the north was very rainy subsided when we immediately started seeing wildlife in the park. After a three hour trek through the forest we had seen a number of gibbons, a giant black squirrel (looked more like a monkey), and a few hornbills (huge tucan-like birds). We got to relax by a waterfall for a while and then went to the highest point of the park for its view. However, all we saw there was some kind of poisonous green snake because we were quickly notified that someone had spotted a herd of elephants so we raced back down the mountain to find a herd of six elephants tromping around the jungle near the road! It was really amazing to spend so much time watching them- there was even a baby elephant! They were even kind of aggressive, stalking and chasing people and cars who stayed too close. Time to go now because this morning we have about seven hours of train/bus travel to get to our next destination: Sukothai, the first capital of Thailand.
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