Thap Lan National Park's cold weather attracts throngs of tourists

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Thap Lan National Park’s cold weather attracts throngs of tourists

PRACHINBURI, 10 November 2014 (NNT) - Drawn to the cold weather, thousands of tourists have flocked to Thap Lan National Park, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Thap Lan National Park overlaps the boundaries of Prachinburi and Nakhon Ratchasima provinces. More than 5,000 tourists have gone down to the area for a nightly camping experience and to visit other attractions nearby including the Thap Lan Reservoir and the Keb Tawan Cliff, generating higher levels of income for business operators.

According to the Thap Lan National Park chief Mr. Taywin Meesap, the cold season is usually a time bustling with tourists. He also said the park is located near Wang Nam Khiao, which is a famous forested area in Thailand that ranks 7th in the world for having the best ozone levels.

Meanwhile, there are also other noteworthy attractions such as the Man Fah Waterfall and the Keb Tawan Cliff. The most striking feature of the national park is the scenic terrain of millions of Talipot Palm trees, which is where the park derives its name from. Apart from that, the park is also teeming with wild creatures such as elephants, gaurs, red bulls, and tigers.


-- NNT 2014-11-10

[bangkokfrog]

How does this rate as a news item ???

[JOC]

How does this rate as a news item ???

Tourists!! Money!! Best in the World!! Red Bull!!

Always newsworthy in Thailand!!

[Fat Haggis]

How many were Thais?

[bkkgooner]

Nearly all of them

[Fat Haggis]

So classing ones own citizens as tourists is a way to boost a flagging department it seems !!

[prakhonchai nick]

I never saw any tigers when I was there!

[chainarong]

How much rubbish and visual pollution is left lying around the pristine park after the throng has gone.

[Fat Haggis]

I never saw any tigers when I was there!

They're all in hiding after trying to scoff a tourist a couple of weeks back !!

[ratcatcher]

Apart from that, the park is also teeming with wild creatures such as elephants, gaurs, red bulls, carabao daeng and tigers.

TEEM :be full of or swarming with."every garden is teeming with wildlife"

synonyms: be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, abound in, be swarming with, be aswarm with;

Perhaps a slight exaggeration.One might say the Serengeti is teeming with wildebeest and zebra at certain times of the year.

The only things in Thailand that teem are the occasional rainstorm and Bangkok's notorious traffic.

I fear much of the wildlife has been poached, stolen or is in deep hiding well away from humans.

[Fat Haggis]

Thais exaggerate ? No way Ratcatcher !! ?

[ginjag]

So classing ones own citizens as tourists is a way to boost a flagging department it seems !!

I misread it for a start, I thought it said THONGS, was going to remark -if it was cold there would not be many of these.

[trainman34014]

How much rubbish and visual pollution is left lying around the pristine park after the throng has gone.

Tut tut; they were all 'quality tourists ' you know !

[emilymat]

7th best ozone level in the world?. So, what does that mean and why aren't they first?

It sound like a great place to wander around and sleep out at night. Tigers, elephants, red bulls and gaurs all knocking about. What's a gaur? Showing my ignorance.

[ginjag]

7th best ozone level in the world?. So, what does that mean and why aren't they first?

It sound like a great place to wander around and sleep out at night. Tigers, elephants, red bulls and gaurs all knocking about. What's a gaur? Showing my ignorance.

A wild cow type thingy Ha...............summat like that.

[marsstar14]

Apart from that, the park is also teeming with wild creatures such as elephants, gaurs, red bulls, carabao daeng and tigers.

TEEM :be full of or swarming with."every garden is teeming with wildlife"

synonyms: be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, abound in, be swarming with, be aswarm with;

Perhaps a slight exaggeration.One might say the Serengeti is teeming with wildebeest and zebra at certain times of the year.

The only things in Thailand that teem are the occasional rainstorm and Bangkok's notorious traffic.

I fear much of the wildlife has been poached, stolen or is in deep hiding well away from humans.

Go back and read post #9 that you made on this forum topic: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/753257-met-dept-forecasts-heavy-rains-in-thailands-north-and-isaan/

Weren't you the one who told other members here to not find fault on news articles? Yet you're doing it yourself directly on this thread. You're such a hypocrite.

[Benmart]

Apart from that, the park is also teeming with wild creatures such as elephants, gaurs, red bulls, carabao daeng and tigers.

TEEM :be full of or swarming with."every garden is teeming with wildlife"synonyms: be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, abound in, be swarming with, be aswarm with;

Perhaps a slight exaggeration.One might say the Serengeti is teeming with wildebeest and zebra at certain times of the year.

The only things in Thailand that teem are the occasional rainstorm and Bangkok's notorious traffic.

I fear much of the wildlife has been poached, stolen or is in deep hiding well away from humans.

Go back and read post #9 that you made on this forum topic: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/753257-met-dept-forecasts-heavy-rains-in-thailands-north-and-isaan/

Weren't you the one who told other members here to not find fault on news articles? Yet you're doing it yourself directly on this thread. You're such a hypocrite.

The first sentence seems to have been sufficient enough.

[recycled]

What a load of crap!

[MexicanFarang]

I've seen Thai's camping before.

They pitch their tents right next to each other. In an open field. Right across the road from a restaurant.

Wilderness, 555

[Fat Haggis]

7th best ozone level in the world?. So, what does that mean and why aren't they first?

It sound like a great place to wander around and sleep out at night. Tigers, elephants, red bulls and gaurs all knocking about. What's a gaur? Showing my ignorance.

A wild cow type thingy Ha...............summat like that.

I used to be married to one then!! 55555

[englishoak]

How does this rate as a news item ???

Oh didnt you notice ? Thap Lan National Park, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site..... it must be special, please visit and leave your 300bht as a farang at the gate

[MJP]

How does this rate as a news item ???

Oh didnt you notice ? Thap Lan National Park, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site..... it must be special, please visit and leave your 300bht as a farang at the gate

I always miss these places, never go anywhere interesting.

According to the font of all knowledge that is Wikipedia, Thap Lan National Park may have more tigers than China!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thap_Lan_National_Park

Flora includes palm forests. Mammals that thrive within the park are boar, clouded leopards, deer, elephants, and spotted linsang. Avifauna include lapwings, laughing thrushes, and myna. According to researchers, the park may have more tigers than China.

[quidnunc]

So classing ones own citizens as tourists is a way to boost a flagging department it seems !!

The only reason this article calls them tourists is because they are tourists. If I live in Manchester and go to see the White Cliffs of Dover, I'm a tourist. If I live in New York and go to see the grand canyon, I'm a tourist. People who live somewhere and go elsewhere for recreational reasons are tourists. Why should the definition be different for Thailand?

[Fat Haggis]

Really? I am Scottish and I visit another place in Scotland that makes me a tourist ? Well knock me down with a feather then Thaialnd doesn't need to worry about quality tourists then as they have 64 Million of their own they can send to various locations to boost facts and figures then !!!

Sorry but your definition differs from mine but that's your prerogative. In almost every other country a tourist is pretty much defined as a visitor from another country?

Belong to a country your living in and going to another place within that country doesn't change your RESIDENCY status ?

I do know where your coming from with this though

Edited November 11, 2014 by Fat Haggis

[quidnunc]

Really? I am Scottish and I visit another place in Scotland that makes me a tourist ? Well knock me down with a feather then Thaialnd doesn't need to worry about quality tourists then as they have 64 Million of their own they can send to various locations to boost facts and figures then !!!

Sorry but your definition differs from mine but that's your prerogative. In almost every other country a tourist is pretty much defined as a visitor from another country?

Belong to a country your living in and going to another place within that country doesn't change your RESIDENCY status ?

I do know where your coming from with this though

I used something called the internet to look up the definiton of tourst. This is the first definition from Merriam Webster: a person who travels to a place for pleasureso no, a tourist isn't defined as a person from another country who travels for pleasure. you can find similar definitions from other sources. Certainly once someone stays at a hotel overnight and has traveled to the destination for pleasure, there is no way that person is not a tourist.

[emilymat]

Really? I am Scottish and I visit another place in Scotland that makes me a tourist ? Well knock me down with a feather then Thaialnd doesn't need to worry about quality tourists then as they have 64 Million of their own they can send to various locations to boost facts and figures then !!!

Sorry but your definition differs from mine but that's your prerogative. In almost every other country a tourist is pretty much defined as a visitor from another country?

Belong to a country your living in and going to another place within that country doesn't change your RESIDENCY status ?

I do know where your coming from with this though

I thought they were 'holiday makers' in the UK or 'day trippers".