Why this ride
On the way it passes Pang Sida National Park, Khao Yai National Park and back through Pang Sida National Park. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary and Khao Yai National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 354 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 06
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary
Near the Cambodian border, the forests of eastern Thailand are some of the wildest in the country, and Dong Yai is part of a great chain of them. The Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai forest complex, which UNESCO listed in 2005, covers about six thousand square kilometres of hills and valleys stretching from Khao Yai National Park to the Cambodian frontier. Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the five protected areas in the complex, together with Ta Phraya, Thap Lan and Pang Sida National Parks, and it forms a corridor for animals that need space.
Read the complete Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary is where the day begins. Next is Pang Sida National Park.
2. Pang Sida National Park
Pang Sida is the eastern end of the great forest belt that stretches across north-eastern Thailand from Khao Yai to the Cambodian border, a block of jungle, waterfalls and rolling hills in Sa Kaeo province. Together with Khao Yai, Thap Lan, Ta Phraya and a wildlife sanctuary, it makes up the Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai Forest Complex, a World Heritage site that protects some of the best remaining monsoon forest in mainland South-east Asia.
Read the complete Pang Sida National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pang Sida National Park comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Khao Yai National Park.
3. Khao Yai National Park
Khao Yai was the first national park in Thailand, set up in 1962, and today it forms the heart of a vast forest complex, Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai, that UNESCO listed in 2005. It stretches across mountain ridges, evergreen forest, grassland and the sources of several rivers, and it protects some of the richest wildlife in mainland Southeast Asia: wild elephants, gibbons whose calls ring across the valleys at dawn, hornbills with their huge casques, macaques, sambar deer and, in the thick of the forest, a few tigers and bears that almost nobody sees.
Read the complete Khao Yai National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 177 km into the recorded legs you reach Khao Yai National Park. Next is back through Pang Sida National Park.
4. back through Pang Sida National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pang Sida National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Pang Sida National Park, late in the day. Next is Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary.
5. Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary to Pang Sida National Park
Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary → Pang Sida National Park is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pang Sida National Park to Khao Yai National Park
Pang Sida National Park → Khao Yai National Park is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Khao Yai National Park to back through Pang Sida National Park
Khao Yai National Park → back through Pang Sida National Park is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pang Sida National Park to Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary
back through Pang Sida National Park → Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.