Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand is one of the most remarkable natural landscapes in Southeast Asia — a limestone karst wilderness of caves, coastal wetlands, and bird life that exists nowhere else in the region. For Dragon Study Tours closed groups aged 13 to 17 on the Elephant Conservation Experience programme, the excursion to Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park is one of the most memorable experiences of the entire fortnight — and one of the most ecologically coherent connections in a programme built around understanding Thailand’s natural world. The programme runs all year round.
What Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand Offers
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand — Three Hundred Mountain Peaks — covers more than 98 square kilometres of coastal limestone karst, freshwater marshes, mangrove forest, and sandy beaches on the Gulf of Thailand coast south of Hua Hin. It is home to more than 300 species of birds, making it one of the most important wetland bird habitats in Southeast Asia.
The centrepiece of the Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand excursion for Dragon Study Tours groups is Phraya Nakhon Cave — a vast cave system accessible only on foot through a landscape of limestone hills, containing a royal pavilion built for King Rama V and later visited by King Rama VII and King Rama IX. The quality of engaged description that the Phraya Nakhon experience produces in participants is consistently extraordinary.
How Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand Connects to the Conservation Programme
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand connects directly to the conservation work that participants do each morning. The wetland habitats of the park are exactly the kind of coastal ecosystem that the mangrove conservation work at the Sirinart Rajini Mangrove Centre is designed to protect. The bird life of the park is the same biodiversity that wildlife rescue organisations like Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand work to preserve.
The Wildlife Conservation Society Thailand identifies the coastal forests and wetlands of the Gulf region as critical habitat for a wide range of species beyond elephants. Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand gives groups the landscape context for all the conservation work they have been doing — this is what conservation is working to protect.
Safety at Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand
The Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand excursion is managed within the full Dragon Study Tours safety framework. Transport is by private air-conditioned coach. Dragon Study Tours staff are present throughout. All excursions are risk-assessed before groups leave The Palm Residence.
Safeguarding procedures are aligned to British Council accreditation standards. Parents have direct contact details for the Dragon Study Tours team at all times.
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand in the Wider Programme
The Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park Thailand excursion is one of many afternoon and weekend activities in the Dragon Study Tours programme — alongside Kui Buri National Park wildlife safari, Pranburi Forest Park kayaking, historic palace visits, and the markets and restaurants of Hua Hin itself.
The programme runs all year round for closed groups. Visit our 50 things to do in Hua Hin guide, request a quote, make a booking, or read our FAQ.
