🇹🇭Camping in PHU KRADUENG National Park Thailand Travel Vlog:hiking, mountainbiking,Isan Thai food

In this Thailand Travel Vlog, we went to a place that many of you recommended: Phu Kradueng National Park! This is in the Loei province of Thailand – part of Isaan and is a really popular place for Thais to go in the winter months! While we don’t recommend doing it in a weekend like we did, it was SO easy to reach from Bangkok!! We were able to take an overnight bus from Bangkok to Pha Nok Khao. We arrived around 5am where we waited at the bus station to take a songtaew the last 20 minutes from the bus station to the entrance to Phu Kradueng National Park. We purchased national park tickets at the entrance. We were also able to pay for a tent rental at the bottom of the mountain. We then started the 4-5 hour hike up to the top.
The hike is interesting because it’s about 9km to the upper campsite, but only the first 5km are uphill. After you reach the mountain top, you still have to hike a further 3.5km to the campsite area.
Luckily there are many rest areas along the mountain where you can buy food, drinks, and lots of water.
Phu Kradueng is also well known for the porters who carry tons of things up the mountain! The only way to reach the top of Phu Kradueng is to hike….yet there are many restaurants and stores at the top. Therefore everything that you purchase at the top is carried up by these mountain porters! Some of their loads looked SO heavy! We even saw men carrying gas tanks up to the top that they could use for cooking! Many people also pay the porters to carry their bags up for them to make the hike easier.
The top of the mountain is actually a huge plateau! The famous sunrise and sunset cliffs are on different sides of the plateau. There are also many cliffs and waterfalls that you can explore at the top. There are mountain bikes that you can rent as well which definitely make the 9km hike to the sunset cliff easier….however you’re then stuck biking back in the dark like we did!
We were able to buy tons of Thai food at the top like pad krapao, fried rice, noodles, and more.
We had so much fun doing this hike and camping in Thailand again!! We’d love to go back for longer than a weekend!!

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00:39 Starting the Hike Up Phu Kradueng
01:25 Running Up Phu Kradueng
02:24 First Rest Area of Phu Kradueng
03:00 Thai Fruit for Breakfast
03:53 Continuing the Hike
04:21 Mountain Popsicles
04:50 Bamboo Forest on Phu Kradueng
05:19 Porter Carrying Gas Tank
05:39 Cooked Banana Snacks
05:46 Thai Mountain Eggs
06:15 More Phu Kradueng Hiking
06:26 Heart Shaped Leaf
07:00 Steep Stairs on Phu Kradueng
07:36 Phu Kradueng Mountain Top
08:11 Map of Phu Kradueng
08:52 Hike to Phu Kradueng Visitor Center
10:25 Wild Elephant Sign
10:40 Tons of Tents at Phu Kradueng
11:29 Thai Food at Phu Kradueng
12:55 National Park Camping Gear
13:11 Our Tent at Phu Kradueng
13:33 Mountain Bikes at Phu Kradueng
14:59 Mak Dook Cliff
15:43 Jam Sin Cliff
16:09 Daeng Cliff
16:46 Thamsornuo Waterfall
18:04 Phu Kradueng Sunset Cliff
18:27 More Thai Food
18:56 Vehicle on Phu Kradueng
19:12 Lom Sak Cliff Phu Kradueng Sunset Viewpoint
20:13 Mountain Biking in the Dark
21:20 Back at Phu Kradueng Campsite
22:02 Waking Up for Sunrise Hike
22:20 Group Sunrise Hike
22:49 Nok Aen Cliff Phu Kradueng Sunrise Viewpoint
23:36 Thoughts on Phu Kradueng Sunrise
24:36 Walking Back to Camp
24:57 Thai National Anthem 8am
25:11 Exploring Phu Kradueng Camp Village
26:02 Breakfast Omelette
26:43 Deer at Phu Kradueng
27:26 Packing Up Our Tent
27:49 Hike Back to the Mountain Top
28:17 Hiking Down Phu Kradueng
29:03 Lots of Porter Bags on Phu Kradueng
29:49 We Made It Down!
30:15 Songtaew from Phu Kradueng to the Bus Stop
30:29 Jae Kim Bus Stop
30:59 Free Showers at Phu Kradueng Bus Stop
31:21 Thai Food at the Bus Stop
32:42 Trying Isan Fermented Bamboo Shoots
33:46 Overnight Bus From Phu Kradueng Back to Bangkok!

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