Secret Jungle Pools of Thailand 🇹🇭 Phang Nga Swimming Holes

Uh-oh. We have a development. I think I can go through the top here. Wonderful right now. We are in southern Thailand today, about 45 minutes north of Phang Nga. And we are exploring the Thompariwat Wildlife Preserve today. There's supposed to be some waterfalls here, and who knows what else we're going to get into. But it's another day exploring these beautiful hidden gems outside this awesome southern town of Phang Nga. Well, this river looks promising. It's pretty good flow, and already near the trailhead, there's a couple nice swimming holes right off the bat. So, I'm excited. No other cars in the parking lot because it is a Friday. So, locals are at work. I don't know if tourists come here or not, but we're going to have this place all to ourselves. Sweet. Just the way I like it. Well, we made it to the waterfall. It was only like a five-minute walk up that trail. I don't know if there's much else to explore here because I didn't see any other trails. The bad news is, sign up saying no cliff jumping, although it looks pretty slippery to get to the top of this anyway. But you can swim here. It looks like a beautiful swimming hole, so we'll probably take a quick dip. And there was another side stream coming in from that direction over there. We might go check that out. Boulder hop up there, see what's going on. So, we came up this side creek that meets that main river back there where the waterfall was. And we decided to rock hop up a little way and see what we could find. And it looks like we found a nice little secluded swimming spot right up here. Another secluded jungle swimming hole in Thailand, all for us. There's a cave on this side. I think we can get to the top over this way. Sam climbed up the log on the other side. Let's see if we can check out this cave and then go up, see what else we can find. Nice little palace cave here. Beautiful hidden gem. These rocks are pretty slippery though. So up next we're hitting the Namtak Raman Waterfall Park. This is an awesome forested park about 20 minutes outside of Phang Nga town. So it looks like at each of these seven tiers there's a swimming hole to enjoy as well. So not only do you get a variety of waterfalls in this one park, you also get a lot of options for little swimming holes to enjoy. And I'm assuming the further up you go the more secluded they are. So we've decided to wander off the trail a little bit. Surprise, surprise. Probably no shocker for those of you that have been following for a while. Sometimes I like to get off the beaten path and wade through a nice jungle creek like this and see what we can see. A bunch of banana trees back here. A lot of bamboo growing. Keeping our eyes peeled for some dangerous poisonous spiders and snakes. They do have cobras and king cobras here. Although I haven't seen one yet, I'd like to see one from a safe distance, that's for sure. We found a hidden waterfall with the best swimming hole yet. And I don't think the paved trail comes here. I saw a few footprints so probably some locals know about this spot but this looks like the biggest and deepest swimming hole yet. And my initial impression is the only way to get here is by walking up the creek like we did. So that's pretty sweet. This is truly a hidden gem. It's time to jump into this epic swimming hole. I'm super excited because I've worked up a good sweat. Uh oh. We have a development. Is that what I think it is? Is it? Oh it is! Oh no! Leeches! Hold on, I gotta get this guy off first. Don't fling it over here. I'm not flinging it. Oh this guy, he is on there good. He does not want to get off. Wow. Let's see. Did you get it? Nope, he's on there good. Oh there we go. Oh, he's on my hand now. Oh my god, get it away from me. I'm trying to get him off. Get him. Wow. I wonder how many more I have on me. That doesn't work. Oh he's, look at that. He is a tough sucker. Whoa. Ah. Gosh. Are you stuck in the water? No. Where do you want me? Over there. So I had one leech on me. We don't think it came from the water. Because in our previous experience in Kawasaki with leeches, they were raining down on us from the trees. And typically they get leeches here in rainy season. It's not rainy season. So one stray little leech. Still worth it, in my opinion, to enjoy this wonderful paradise. Well what do you think, ma'am? Ma'am? I don't want the leeches to suck my blood, please. Okay. Send a message to the leeches. Leeches, please don't eat me. Is it worth one leech to enjoy this private paradise? It was worth one leech on you. I could sacrifice you for one leech, but I don't know about me. Quite a team player we have there, folks. It's always good. Make sure you're adventuring with a team player. Turns out I was wrong, guys. It looks like the trail does come here, as evidenced by these steps. Although the trail just takes you to the top. You can scramble around if you're at the top on the left side, or we came up from down there on the right side. But that's the best swimming hole by far. Surprise, nobody else is here. I meant to do that. I'm getting swept over the falls. Infamous.