Top Hua Hin Day Trips - page 2

We booked this private tour excited for the possibility of seeing elephants and our guide, Sam, arrived to pick us up at our hotel right on time. We thought he was great - he was very knowledgeable and was always pointing things out, even on the drive to the national park. At one point he even pulled the car over to show us pineapples growing! We learned so much before the tour even officially started! The first animal we saw was a monitor lizard and we were all pretty excited about that! Inside we saw one lone elephant (a male) from a distance. We also saw a gaur at one point. As the tour was wrapping up, Sam yelled to the driver to stop the vehicle saying he saw something. It was very far away and if it were just us looking, we wouldn’t have seen anything! His ability to spot elephants was amazing! Sure enough, there were several elephants trying to decide if they wanted to come out from behind the trees to the watering hole. There were even two babies! Of course, it was quite far away and we would have loved to have seen them a bit closer but you know, they’re wild so seeing them at all was amazing. My only suggestion would be to book the private tour. I had thought about doing a shared tour and I’m so glad I didn’t. At the lookout points we would come into contact with others and one other vehicle had teenagers that didn’t want to be there (glued to their phones, arguing, complaining they lost their internet connection, overall just being loud and obnoxious). If I had to share a vehicle with that negative energy it would seriously piss me off. Just sharing the lookout points with them was hard enough. So yeah, do yourself a favor and book the private tour.