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. The forest, wet by drops of the rain and morning’s fog filled with the beauty of Tung Dok Krachiao, rocky cliff and stone ground have to offer, has returned to tempt them to visit once again.
Pa Hin Ngam National Park possesses three outstanding attractions tourists should never miss including the flower fields Tung Dok Krachiao or Tung Dok Bua Sawan that fully bloom in purplish pink during June to August to be viewed all day long with its peak beauty between 6.00 to 10.00 a.m.; Sud-Pandin Viewpoint about 500 meters up next; the 846 meter-high cliff of Pang Hoey mountain range with a high; angle view of Amphoe Thep Sathit’s forest and Lopburi’s Sablanka Wildlife Reserve; Laan Pa Hin Ngam a stone ground formed by millions of year erosion of rock and soil pilling up in different groups of shapes very beautiful and amazing.
In the old days, the legend had it that Amphoe Thep Sathit was the residence of divinities. During the Buddhist Lent’s early rains, Tung Dok Bua Sawan would be in full bloom all over Thep Sathit’s hill in worshiping the divinities. From that time ever in the rainy season, Dok Bua Sawan or Dok Krachiao has still performed its duty as the divine worship for tourists to view the beauty of purplish pink flower fields every year.
In the rainy season, at dawn the whitish grey fog mingling with the sunless sky will cover over the purplish pink Tung Dok Krachiao with flowers that bloom in alternation with dwarf grass, sandstone and the hill evergreen forest Teng Rang forming magnificent nature in the area of Pang Hoey mountain range in Pa Hin Ngam National Park, Amphoe Thep Sathit.
Also in the morning when the fog lines still hide the sky and the forest down there, many of tourists walked up to the viewpoint on 864 meter-high top of Pang Hoey mountain rang to wait for the grandeur and beauty of piled-up mountains and forest land that cover the area of 3 provinces.
Travel Details for Pa Hin Ngam National Park
Location: Tambon Baan Rai, Amphoe Thep Sathit, Chaiyaphum.Good time to go: Early rainy season around June to August.
How to get there: From Bangkok, go along Highway number 1 through Saraburi onto Baan Phu Khae and take a right turn onto Highway number 21 towards Amphoe Chaibadan, then take Highway number 205 passing Lamsonthi Sub-district. About 1 kilometer before Amphoe Thep Sathit, turn left onto Highway number 2354 for about 17 kilometers before taking a left turn into the asphalt road for another 13 kilometers to reach Pa Hin Ngam National Park, with a total distance of 270 kilometers.
Where to shopping: Some time before going back can be spent on shopping for famous OTOP products such as silk skirts, dress (Zin Mudmee) and fresh Krachiao flowers as souvenirs.
Where to stay:
Pa Hin Ngam National Park
There are three lodges for up to 6 to 11 persons from 1,200 baht to 1,800 baht; and one connected housing for 15 persons for 1,500 baht/room. Two persons tent at 160 baht each (tourists with own tents may give donations for the place as they wish. Ruen Thep
Location: About 100 meters on the right before the entrance to Pa Hin Ngam is a bungalow housing from 800 to 1,500 baht
