Why this ride
The stops in between: Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, Ta Phraya National Park and back through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Pang Sida National Park and Ta Phraya National Park · 330 km
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 330 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 41
- 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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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 is where the day begins. Next is Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex.
2. Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
Thailand's first national park lies just a couple of hours from Bangkok, and it still has wild elephants walking down its roads. Khao Yai, established in 1962, covers a large area of forested hills on the southern edge of the Khorat plateau, and together with neighbouring protected areas, it forms the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, listed by UNESCO in 2005. The forests here are a mix of evergreen and deciduous, grasslands and streams, home to elephants, gibbons, hornbills, deer, and a small number of tigers.
Read the complete Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary.
3. 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
about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary. Next is Ta Phraya National Park.
4. Ta Phraya National Park
Ta Phraya is a protected forest on the Thai side of the Cambodian border, and it forms part of one of the great wildlife refuges of Southeast Asia, the Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai Forest Complex, which UNESCO listed in 2005. The complex stretches over hills and plains in several provinces, and it holds one of the largest remaining populations of Asian elephants in the country, as well as gaur, sambar, tigers in small numbers, gibbons and four species of hornbill. At dusk the great hornbills fly across the clearings with a rushing, wing-beating sound that carries a long way.
Read the complete Ta Phraya National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ta Phraya National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary.
5. back through 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 through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary sits at 220 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex.
6. back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex comes up about 289 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pang Sida National Park.
7. 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
Pang Sida National Park closes the day.
Leg by leg
Pang Sida National Park to Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
Pang Sida National Park → Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex to Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex → Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary to Ta Phraya National Park
Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary → Ta Phraya National Park is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ta Phraya National Park to back through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary
Ta Phraya National Park → back through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary to back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
back through Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary → back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex to Pang Sida National Park
back through Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex → Pang Sida National Park is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.