Doi Khun Tan National Park — Attraction in Lamphun Province

I visited this national park at the end of Nov. I stayed here for 3 nights and was very happy. There are many wonderful things abt this place and besides also has some inconvenience. However, i still love it so much and surely will be back next year. My notes hope it would be helpful: The weather was still not too cold, temprature from 19 -25c degree. There was no streetlights at night, just the lights from headquater, so it was perfect for stargazing. Glorious sunrise! Though I had to get up at 2.30 am to climb the mountain. It completely deserved. Btw, I did not camp in Yaw 2 camping site as most of people did. I stayed in a bungalow, that's why i had to get up early. And i was a solo traveler, i think this place was quite safe to walk at night even being alone or no streetlights. Wonderful sunset! For sunset, you can watch from the main restaurant or from the hill opposite. Staffs here were so nice and friendly. Not all of them spoke English and I did not speak Thai, we used Google translation to understand each other and they were willing to help and gave me useful advices. I really appriciate that. There was not many visitors on weekdays, so it was quite quiet, just sound of birds, insects and wind. The map and signs were all clear and detail, so if you follow the map, you will not be lost. The hiking trail was well maintained and easy to walk. Restaurant: food was good and price was reasonable, staffs super friendly! Only 1 restaurant (welfare store) open on weekdays, so you must walk a little bit far if you need to buy meal or drink, except you stay in bungalow area or Camping site 1 (temporaly closed). On weekends and public holidays, maybe they open 1 more restaurant and some food stalls in camping sites. In Yaw 2 camping site (people often camp here) only had toilet and bathroom (no food stall, no lights, no electric, no guards, no internet), so you need to prepair everything before you climb the mountain. Most of the bungalows are near the paved road, sometimes you hear the sound of vehicle, but not too noisy. The restaurant opens from 7am -6pm, but it is quite flexible, so you should come after 9 am and before 5 pm to make sure it open. I took the train from BKK to Khun Tan station. From the train station, there was a nature trail to get to Doi Khun Tan national park (1.3 km -abt 30 mins walk). Buy ticket 100 bht for foreigners at the main gate. After that, go to Visitor center, you can ask staffs here whatever you concern and rent bungalow or tents if you need. There was a paved road for vehicle from visitor center to Nature trail and there was a parking lot at the starting point of Natural trail. From here if you want to get to the summit of the moutain, you must walk. From the starting point of Nature trail to the top, you will pass: Yaw 1 (abt 200m -5 mins walk), Yaw 2 (1.5 km -30 mins walk from Y1), Yaw 3 (3 km -1h walk from Y2), Yaw 4 -summit (1km -20mins walk from Y3). There was a trail from Yaw 2 to waterfall and then back to headquater, it was slippery, far, whole route is over 4.5 km and took me over 3h trekking and it was a small waterfall. Best time to visit is rainy...

100 THB for non Thai and 20 THB 30 for the tent just pay it its worth it. It one of my top parks i been to and the children loves it. The trail is so nice and 10 kilometer of easy walk 4 hours there and about 2 hours down hill. You can walk from the waterfall to the visitor center on the way back its about 4 KM all the way back. You can camp in Campsite 1 or 2 the 2 is a higher but very small. You can also be brave and camp in Yaw 1 2 3. Yaw 1 is just at the start of the trail and Yaw 2 is about 2 km away. You need to carry your own tents. The really brave people camp in Yaw 3 its a 3 hour hike with the tent but the road is good. There is snacks to buy at Yaw 2. There is plenty of toliet on all Yaws and there is rangers to keep you safe as well. Yaw 4 is the view point and we did not see anybody camp there. Come before 12.00 if you want to camp on Yaw 3. The tunnel and train station also have food and snack shops 1.2 KM down from visistor center and the visitor center is 2.5 down from yaw 1....

Such a well maintained national park. At the information centre, there is also a restaurant, shop and camping ground. The staff in the information centre spoke very good English and gave us a map and clear instructions on where we could walk (unfortunately the waterfall path was closed when we visited). It cost us 100 baht each to enter the park. We ate at the restaurant (basic, just 4 dishes on offer), bought some water and snacks at the shop and set off. The first part was a 2km drive to a carpark where the walk up the mountain starts. The start of the walk is very clear, there are steps and railings provided in places. Everything is very clear, you can't go wrong really. There were also lots of bungalows available to stay overnight and you could even camp part way up the trek. It took is less than an hour and a half to get to the top, but we are quite fast walkers. A little steep in places, but not...