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| Petchaburi is a province where visitors can appreciate both historical and natural sites. It is one of the oldest cities in Thailand. Also, with its both natural fascinations of the long white sandy strands of Cha Am and the largest national park in Thailand, Kaeng Krachan National Park, it always magnetizes the crowds of tourists visiting the province. Cha Am is a very famous beach resort between Petchaburi and Hua Hin. It warmly accommodates the heaps of Bangkokians that escape from the maddening metropolis, searching for superb tranquil atmosphere. The largest national park in Thailand, Kaeng Krachan National Park, is like the most delicious dish for forest trekkers and mountaineers, offering the rambling routes through rich forests and spectacular activities of bird and butterfly watching. Kaeng Krachan National Park as large as 2,915 square kilometers, covers the areas in Nong Ya Pong subdistrict, Ta Yang district, Kao Yoi district, Petchaburi province and Hua Hin district, Prachuab khiri khan . As the park is densely forested and a river generator of Petchaburi River and Pranburi River, there is a variety of natural charms, such as lakes, waterfalls, caves, cliffs, and others you can name. |
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When His Majesty the King was taking a vacation at Kai Kang Won Palace,
Hua Hin district, Prachuab khiri khan province, and visited Kaeng Krachan
Dam, he make a royal remark to the director general of Forestry Department
of Thailand that “ as the forests, which originate Petchaburi River, are
rich and highly important nature, all forestry officers in the area are to
take responsibility of protecting the forests from logging, plantation,
and other forest destructions by humankind because these acts will surely
have detrimental effects on the ecology of forests”. With the statement
and the governmental policy of protecting forests by establishing them in
form of national park in 9th January 1979, the Forestry Department of
Thailand directed officers to make a survey over the area in the forests,
which originates Petchaburi River to acquire initial data. The result was
that the forests are that the forests generating Petchaburi and Pranburi
Rivers are greatly in abundance occupying beautiful sceneries, waterfalls,
caves, lakes, many high economic valuable woods, big home to several types
of wild animals, such as mountain goats, bisons, birds, an elephants. The
area highly deserved the title of national park and kept as a national
treasure. On 8th August 1980, the meeting was conducted and the areas in
Yang Nam Kuad Nor Forest and Yang Nam Kuad Tai in Bang Nam Kuad Nor
subdistrict, Nong Ya Lard subdistrict, Kao Yoi district, Song Pee Nong
subdistrict, Kaeng Krachan subdistrict, Ta Yang district in Petchaburi
were considered establishing as a national park. Finally, National Park
Section, the Forestry Department of Thailand, officially announced the
area as a national park on 20th April 1983. |
| Later on, the group of nature conservation in Hua Hin district, Prachuab khiri khan proposed to the cabinet council of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation to conserve Huay Rae Nam Kai forest adjoining with Kaeng Krachan National Park in Nong Pub subdistrict, Hua Hin district, Prachuab khiri khan province. After the survey was done by the Forestry Department of Thailand, it showed that the forest environments are fascinating retouched by waterfalls, caves, cliffs, rock grounds, and the diversity of wildlife. Finally, on 23rd January 1984, the consideration of extending Kaeng Krachan National Park area to Huay Rae Nam Kai forest was mutually approved. And on 27th December 1984, The park and the extended area are officially declared as the 28th National Park in Thailand, Kaeng Krachan National Park. |
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