Every year nearly a million people flock to Thailand’s Khao Khitchakut National Park in Chanthaburi on a spiritual journey. What is quite impressive about the number of visitors to the park, is that the park is only open to visitors for 2 months out of the year.
The journey to Khao Khitchakut is not exactly the calmest or most peaceful of trips. The journey begins with a truck ride through steep, one-laned mountain passes. While passengers hold on for dear life in the back of the pickup truck, the driver seems to do his best to give them a ride that they will not soon forget.
As you fly up the side of the mountain on what is nearly a one-lane-road, your driver will occasionally have to switch sides of the trail or pull over in order to let vehicles coming down the hill pass by safely as well. Most people begin the truck ascent as the sun is going down….
