This day's drive takes you on a rural back route (but good roads) passing Khao Luang National Park and Thung Yai district town (amphoe) to Krabi. A longer route with heavier traffic goes via Thung Song (H403, H41 and H4019) to Thung Yai (N.B. Follow navigation instructions on H4015 closely and check the road numbers as bilingual signs have not been placed along some new roads in this area).

Leave Nakhon Sri Thammarat by H4016 which is the first main road to cross the railway south of the station. Take route H4105. At KM.20 a right [north] turn goes to the HQ of Khao Luang National Park and a walk that climbs along the sixteen levels of the Kharom Falls.

Keep on H4015 through Ban Chandee (KM.36) where two roads go left. After KM.44, H4015 to Amphoe Chawang bears right. Keep going straight ahead on H4195 (use the KM stones to check you are on the right road - ignore a sign after a few kilometres that indicates H4195 goes right at a T junction) till you reach H41. The signpost (in Thai only) at the termination of H4195 points the route to Thung Yai straight ahead (across H41 on to a pitted dirt road).

Drive slowly for approximately 1500 metres and then turn right [north-west] at the junction with the sealed road(H4019 to Thung Yai District 10 kms.). If you come to H41 by another route, both H4019 (H41 approx. KM.215) and H4038 (H41 KM.201) lead to Thung Yai. In Thung Yai take H4156 to Khao Phanom. Beware of unsupervised cattle on these roads.

Overview

• Day 1 Phuket - Kao Sok National Park 175 kms.
• Day 2 Khoa Sok - Ko Samui Island 205 kms.
• Day 3 Ko Samui - Nakhon Sri Thammarat 130 kms.
• Day 4 Nakhon Sri Thammarat - Krabi 185 kms.
• Day 5 Krabi - Phang Nga - Phuket 185 kms.
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