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Zai Thong National Park |
Zai Thong National Park is Chaiyaphum’s another well known national park with highlands pilling up in alternation with forest hills creating an all season fine scenery. But in the rainy season, apart from the magnificent fresh and green forest, the Krachial flowers both in purplish pink and white will bloom all over the field. The local call this field Tung Dok Bua Sawan. Let’s come to experience the dawn atmosphere here and you will feel like you are in the dreamland.
Same as at Amphoe Thep Sathit’s Pa Hin Ngam, Chaiyaphum exists the land of Dok Krachial as a large field in Amphoe Nong Bua Rawheh. The Zai Thong National Park on the same Phu Pang Hoey Range and Dok Krachiao here will be blooming all over the field at the same time as at Pa Hin Ngam with equal beauty. But the difference between Zai Thong National Park and Pa Hin Ngam is that here you have to work for a distance of not less than 2 kilometers through the foggy jungle skirting by the cliff towards a number of flower fields Tung Dok Krachiao. In the foggy days you will experience the forest in whole white.
Zai Thong National Park with an area of 319 square kilometers covers Chaiyaphum’s at Amphoe Nhong Bua Rahweh, Thep Sathit, Pakdi Chumphon and Nhong Bua Daeng and connected with National Park of Pa Hin Ngam and Phu Land Kha. It is made up of forestland on the mountain ranges of Praya Phor and Pang Hoey that pile up forming the magnificent landscape. In the rainy season, the hill evergreen forest Teng Rang and thick forest will be wet and green making this place so beautiful with Krachiao flowers that bloom all over the field.
Zai Thong has natural sights and adventurous activities for tourists to choose with two places that can be reached by 4WD trucks, Tung Bua Swan or Tung Dok Krachiao all together four fields; three of which are of purplish pink and while four is of white.
Start at the morning setting is the most beautiful, taking about 2 to 3 hours walk to get through all fields. Then other is Pah Ham Hod in the same area of Tung Bua Sawan. This is a hill ridge at the highest point of Pang Hoey Range about 860 meters above average sea level with a protruding rock as far as 1 meter making it the most thrilling spot. A cliff roping activity is possible for a distance of 50 meters.
For those who love walking to study nature, Zai Thong National Park offers a 2.5 kilometers nature study route (Namtok Zai Thong to Namtok Chunchom) is not too difficult one for bird-watching and floral viewing under shady trees and shooting sound of falling water form two waterfalls, Namtok Zai Thong ideal for a swim in a large basin, and Namtok Chunchom is good for relaxing by the nature.
On the Highway number 225 from entrance to Zai Thong National Park towards Nakhon Sawan for about 15 kilometers is another attraction Panghoey Viewpoint, a top for the drive and a place to view the most beautiful sunset in Nhong Bua Rahweh. |
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Top 10 Thai Attractive Flower Fields
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Doi Mae U-Kor’s Tung Dok Buatong.
Mae Hongson possesses Thailand’s largest Tung Dok Buatong. Regarded as valueless weeds in the old days, Tung Dok Buatong today is Mae Hongson’s most famous attraction. |
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Phu Soidao National Park.
It is in the area of Nam Pard National Forest Reserve covering Uttaradit’s Amphoe Baan Koke, Nuaymun, Nam Pard and Pitsanulok’s Amphoe Bor Park, Chat Trakan, with a total area of about 200.18 square kilometers. |
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Tung None Son and the Savannah of Thailand.
It is realized that to get to see the beauty of Tung None Son is not a piece of cake. The 16 kilometers long trail on foot may seem so far, but easy to walk not too steep. |
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Phu Pah Toeb.
In the Isan plateau that connects the Mekhong River exists the unique landscape. These sandstone mountains, though look dry, possess a tourism charm no other regions do that is the sandstone sculpture in as many different shapes as the viewer’s imagination may lead to. |
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Flower Fields, Lotus Ponds at Phu Sa Dokbua.
These flower fields on the stone ground may not be of much difference, as they are made up of the same kind of wild flowers found in other places. But the uniqueness is the small ponds with lotus flowers of new varieties on the mountaintop.
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Phu Samui at Ubon Ratchathani.
Similar in name to the famous beautiful island in Surat Thani’s sea, but this Samui is a hill located north of Pah Taem National Park. On the top of Phu Samui and its surroundings lie outstanding attractions, including viewpoints and flower fields. |
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Pah Chana Dai – Pa Dong Natham.
Dazzled by flower fields, view the sunrise before anybody else at Pah Chana Dai – Pa Dong Natham at Amphoe Khong Chiam, Ubon Ratchathani. Well known is Pah Chana Dai as the spot to view sunrise before anybody else in Siam. |
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Tung Dok Bua Sawan Pa Hin Ngam National Park.
Feel the chilly fog, admire Tung Dok Bua Sawan at Pa Hin Ngam National, Amphoe Thep Sathit, Chaiyaphum. As the rain is starting to fall along the wind’s blow, many tourists can’t help thinking of the days when the beauty of Chaiyaphum’s Pa Hin Ngam National Park revealed to their eyes. |
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Tung Dok Krachiao – Zai Thong National Park.
Zai Thong National Park is Chaiyaphum’s another well known national park with highlands pilling up in alternation with forest hills creating an all season fine scenery. But in the rainy season, apart from the magnificent fresh and green forest, the Krachiao flowers both in purplish pink and white will bloom all over the field. |
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Tung Dok Tantawan.
Take the Floating Train, View Tung Dok Tantawan Amphoe Pattana Nikom, Lopburi. When the rain has gone, here come the blows of colder wind, most tourists plan to go up north for jungle treks to view fields of winter land flowers that compete in blooming. |
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