Location: 114/1 หมู่ที่ 17 Mu Si, Pak Chong District, Nakhon Ratchasima 26000.
Area: 2,168 km².
Season: Dry Summer (Smokey season), March 2021.
Khao Yai National Park is in the western part of the Sankamphaeng Mountain Range, at the southwestern boundary of the Khorat Plateau.
The highest mountain in the area of the park is 1,351 meters high Khao Rom. This park lies largely in Nakhon Ratchasima Province (Korat), but also includes parts of Saraburi, Prachinburi, and Nakhon Nayok Provinces.
The park is the third largest in Thailand. It covers an area of 2,168 square kilometers, including tropical seasonal forests and grasslands. Elevations mostly range from 400–1,000 meters.
There are 3,000 species of plants, 320 species of birds like red junglefowl and coral-billed ground cuckoo, and 66 species of mammals, including Asian black bear, Indian elephant, gaur, gibbon, Indian sambar deer, southern pig-tailed macaque, Indian muntjac, Ussuri dhole, and wild pig.
There are no tigers in Khao Yai, and there have not been any for at least 20 years.
Its waterfalls include the 80-metre Heo Narok (เหวนรก), and Heo Suwat (หวสุวัต) made famous from the film The Beach.
Sources: Wikipedia.
