Day 109, 74km. By Amy:

Today was an awesome day! We found a overgrown abandoned road / track along the northern edge of the national park which lasted most of the day. We were the only people on it but it appeared to be well used by elephants. You could see where they had come blundering out of the national park to snaffle all the crops within trunk reach through the wire fence! 

On the elephant trail

The afternoon was spent ascending an unnecessarily steep hill into Kao-Yai national park. This was made bearable by the cute macaques on the roadside. 

\Dodging Macaques

We arrived at the campsite on Saturday evening to join crowds of Bangkok weekenders. It was more like a festival than an escape to nature with over 1000 people at each camp and nearly as many in an overflow camp on the hill.

Despite this Chris found us a spot away from the hustle and bustle in the woods on the hill. 

I awoke in the night thinking a drunk person had fallen into our tent. It turned out to be a deer which was reaching through the ventilation hole in the tent porch to nick the food bag!