We found a hidden natural water slide in the jungles of Chanthaburi, Thailand! Most people only know of the main Phlio Waterfall, where the fish will eat dead skin off your feet, but we explored all the jungle secrets of Namtok Phlio National Park and found so much more! We journeyed deep into this jungle park and found hidden swimming holes, cliff jumps, an awesome natural water slide and even a sacred water source used in the coronation of the king here in Thailand.
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We are in Chantaburi, Thailand today exploring Namtok Flio National Park. There's supposed to be
a ton of interesting waterfalls here. These rolling jungle hills look absolutely beautiful
in the morning mist. Hoping to get a little bit off the beaten track, although the trail
infrastructure here is not super developed. So this first waterfall we're going to, Namtok Flio,
is pretty touristy. So we're hoping to beat the tour groups here this morning.
It's a little bit of a late start. It's 9.30, so there may be some tour groups up there already,
but let's go check it out. So the entry fee to this national park is 200 baht per person,
a little over six dollars. Like I said, in this particular area, it's super touristy. Gets a lot
of local Thai tourism here. The other areas, there's three other main waterfalls in this park.
Don't think they get as much traffic, but we're going to find out today.
So in Bangkok, there's places where you can go and stick your feet in a fish tank,
and the fish will eat the dead skin off of your feet. It's like a fish pedicure,
but you have to pay for it. Here at the Flio waterfall, you can do it for free because these
fish will eat the dead skin off your feet, your legs, and maybe even any other parts of your body
that they can get a hold of. So this is our first free fish pedicure here in Thailand.
There's some really big fish in here. I don't know if I want to bite my feet.
Right now, it just feels like they're bumping into me. Oh, felt some big nibbles there.
So it actually doesn't feel as bad as I thought it was going to feel. I saw some of these big
fish swimming around. I thought they were going to take giant bites out of my feet.
Supposedly, they only eat the dead skin, though I think I had plenty of dead skin on my feet.
They're not really eating all of it. It seems like the smallest fish are the ones that are
taking those nibbles. These fish are called sorrel brook carp. I don't know what else they
eat besides dead skin of the people that swim here. I think they feed off algae and other
small organisms in the water. Maybe they're not too hungry. Maybe they got filled up last weekend
from all the tourists here. So it looks like 10 o'clock is the magic number. Definitely get here
before 10 o'clock on the weekends if you want to have less of a crowd at the waterfall. As soon
as 10 o'clock hit, there's a bunch more people here. Next, we hit the Trok Nong trailhead. This
section of the national park has tremendous swimming holes, several waterfalls. We did find
a little cliff jump and one of my most favorite things, an epic natural water slide. The Macaque
waterfall was by far one of my most favorite waterfalls in the Namtok Pleo National Park.
Macaque was big. It was grand. It was inspiring and after several minutes of just standing there
staring at Macaque, I just had to jump in and play with it. The Klong Narae area contained one of the
several sacred waters of Thailand and actually these waters are used in the coronation of the
king. However, we found it awfully difficult to find the supposed waterfalls in that area.
One issue that we have found while trying to explore off the beaten track here in Namtok Pleo
National Park in Thailand is the few trailheads that are less trafficked don't really have much
signage in terms of maps or distance on where exactly these waterfalls are. There's still a big
hand-drawn map picture but they don't give you distances on where it is and and a lot of these
trails are like overgrown so there's supposedly like three waterfalls back here but man it is
tough to find them and also this uh the holy sacred water source here the the cave had collapsed
at one point so I don't know if the waterfalls also had some some boulder collapses because as
you can see there's a lot of big boulders and stuff around the question is is there a reason
why these are lesser trafficked maybe the the local people know that the waterfalls don't flow
or they're difficult to get to or or what the deal is I don't know but still having a great time in
the jungles of Thailand looking for hidden waterfalls. It's interesting to see the sacred
water source out in the middle of the jungle here and although we didn't find the waterfall we were
looking for we still had an amazing day journeying through the jungle in places where tourists rarely
travel. So it has become abundantly clear that Namtag Flio has a lot of nooks and crannies to
explore a lot more stuff off the beaten track than I even suspected. In order to explore a lot of
these areas in depth I would recommend spending at least three or four days maybe even a week here
to be able to make it to all these waterfalls that we didn't make it to there's probably at
least five or six other big waterfalls in the park that we didn't even make it to. Definitely recommend
Namtag Flio National Park to explore a different side of Thailand that most people even most local
Thai tourists don't go to explore as evidenced by the lack of people at this trailhead and a
couple other trailheads. If you want to explore the jungles of Thailand definitely highly recommended.
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