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Doi Khun Tan National Park, awesome place to camping, hiking, traveling, or just enjoy fresh air in Thailand

Written By Ridwan Labs on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | 3:23 PM

Doi Khun Tan National Park, awesome place to camping, hiking, traveling, or just enjoy fresh air in Thailand
Are you Thailand citizen? Or you have traveler to Thailand before? Or do you have traveler to Thailand before? Well, I just want to share this information to all of you about some place in Thailand that awesome for me. Some place called Doi Khun Tan National Park. Doi Khun Tan National Park Located in the mountain of the northern Thailand, Doi Khun Tan National Park is home to many interesting species both flora and fauna, as well as many historical spots of interest. Its most renowned feature is Thailand’s longest railroad tunnel, which is 1,352 m. long. Doi Khun Tan National Park straddles the mountains separating Lamphun and Lampang Provinces, covering 255.29 sq.km and ranges in elevations from 325m to 1,373m at the summit. Established in 1975, it was the 10th National Park in Thailand.

In this place, we can do several outdoor activities, such as camping, hiking, traveling, or just enjoy fresh air free from daily activities. I don’t know why this place called Doi Khun Tan National Park, but from local source, Doi translates to mountain in Northern Thai, while Khun Tan refers to the numerous streams and watershed flowing down from the mountain. According many source, this place has three basic seasons are summer, from March to June, rainy, from July to October, and winter, from November to February. The temperature varies from 38 degree Celsius during the hot season, to as cold as 5 degree Celsius. Rainfall, which falls mostly during the rainy season, averages about 1,034 mm. per year.

Doi Khun Tan National Park, awesome place to camping, hiking, traveling, or just enjoy fresh air in Thailand
In addition, for advice to doing outdoor activities Doi Khun Tan National Park, you need to be carefully, because this place have some wildlife still exists in Doi Khun Tan, including the Siamese hare, porcupine, wild chicken, wild boar and weasel, as a variety of birds, reptiles, spiders and insects. The effects of hunting, logging, frequent fires and human encroachment have greatly reduced their numbers. In the past, gibbons, tiger, elephants, bears, wild cattle, sorrow, slow loris, barking deer and many other species were also residents of Doi Khun Tan, but they are all gone. Doi Khun Tan also offers year-round viewing of wild-flowers such as orchids, and gingers. Doi Khun Tan is botanically very diverse, home to over 1,300 different vascular species.

So, if you bored with ordinary vacation, I suggest to you to visit this place and do some outdoor activities. Enjoy Doi Khun Tan National Park, Thailand.

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