I went to hiking again.

My friend asked me to join trip to Phu kraDueng, Loei Province coz he is

the only male of the member so he want to go someone with male.

I said it is good to you but he did not want to...

I am living in Khon Kaen so just 2 hours to go so he invite me.

Actually Phu kraDueng is one of the famous mountain in Thailand.

Now it is getting cold in esan area so some tree leaf are getting turn yellow.

Even Bamboo also like pict below... I love this season and scenery.

After we started to walk, it took 5 hours(6km) to hike to top of the mountain.

But we still had 3km walk to camp site and this sand make us more tired to walk.

but no need to climb up so just walk and walk.

At Camp site, on that day was week day so it was not so crowded.

Actually if you dont have any cooking equipment no problem.

there are a lot of thai restrants. price is from 25-30B.

During we were eatting dinner sun set it was so beautiful.

at night, actually I could sleep but it was so cold....

it was 8C so bring worm stuff of couse you can buy it!!

2nd day b4 sun rise we went to Nok An Cliff(about 2km from Camp site)

at top there was moon. Beatiful isn't it?

when Sun rise, we 2Japanese prayed to the Sun but thai friend ask us why pray?

coz for Japanese Sun is one of the GOD. so we pray. just think about our flags.

We believe GOD is not only one everything is GOD. Mountain, Rain, Moon, etc..

After eatting breakfast we went to see waterfalls but in Esan Area no rain for a long time so not so many water there.

Not waterfalls water is dropping,,,

So even if river we can walk I think this is much better than waterfalls

I didnt know that thailand also has maple tree. I love maple.

after waterfall it was almost 2PM so I thought we counld go to LOMSAK Cliff.

but young 2 girls said if we dont go, it is worthless to come here.

but it is 9km walk from there, we already walked 7km. ummm...kinda taguh but

we went there and then it was really beatiful sunset.

but after sunset we had to go back to camp site this is also 9km from LOMSAK cliff.

we walked under the tons of stars. It was so beatiful but tired to walk only hand light.

however good thing is cliff by cliff there are rest shop so you dont need to worry about

hunger or something...

but we did not take a shower coz not hot water...

too cold to take a cold shower... but some thais took shower..

I can not believe it.

3rd day, just go down the mountain. but this day just started to long holiday.

so it was too many ppl come up.... national park stuff said about 7500ppl stay at the top tonight.

It was so many ppl go up that some ppl decide to go up to carry by yourself.

coz not enough stuff to carry up baggages. actully 10B/kg..umm this is the cheapest to carry.

when I asked one guy I can try to carry it. I could stand but not to walk and then I asked him.

how much you carry now and he said 61kg.... I can not beleive it.. for me 45kg max in my life.

I can say

1. better go to weeekday if possible

2. carry water just in case. you can buy water lots but some places you can not find any shop.

3. for girls, on peak season it is difficult to flash tilet coz no water(too many ppl use it)

4. from BKK take a bus go to Loei and then get off at Pho Nok Khao then take song tew go to National Park(30B)

.. from Khon Kean take a bus go to Loei and then get off at amphue phu kradueng then take song tew.

anyway thailand also has lots of beatiful mountain and I love it.

daisuke

So beautiful!! I never go there but hope to go someday

nice place. I never go there ....> oneday I go sure. thanks for picture.

Excellent post Daichan. I trekked Nepal last year and some of your pics are very similar to Nepal. I will definately visit this area one day. Some very good pictures. Thankyou :-)

Daichan! I love it! I wanna go there someday too. Maybe i need ur advice next time im planing to go there then! can u send me an actual size of 12th pic?

wanna go there

wow, great entry! I will pack my treking stuff when i go there on my next trip for sure!

Shashin wa sugoi ne!!! Kondo issho ni ikitai na :-)

Airanna, Starry_night, Liply_Love, Pauld, coolwater_naja, tammy, Narak23, TLOS4me, Sunee:

yeah it was good coz not so crawd actually my friend wont go again under lots of ppl.

I think I will go another hiking in Feb or March so I will ask you guys again!!

May, ok i will...But It is kind big files ayway Iwill PM you when I uploaded...

ghee, thks and I think I will ask in TF for trip next year!!

I agree 8 degree is too cold just some thai are enjoying this cold and bathroom...

it is OK for me. coz I guess some japanese bathroom is worse....

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> i never been there before but heard from my friends that if go there with bf or gf that would be the way to prove real love any ideas?

ummm I think so too

and I know whenever both you and your bf/gf are tired then you will know your bf/gf's real personallity.anyhow this is good check point how to treat your gf/bf under hard condiotion na.

Slurms:

yeah some parts are really bored.. just walk and walk and tired no talk ... hard time.

but sometimes I need to escape from stressed town or city. so I dont mind it. if I can relax just ok.(^^)