© W. Kaspar-Sickermann
MAI 2017
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To the south-west of Petchaburi lies the municipality of Kaeng Krachan near one of the large reservoirs of the country. From there you can travel about 20 km to the west, deep into the jungle, then you get to the headquarters of the Kaeng Krachan national park.
Unbelievable, how many butterflies are flapping here, as -in the old days- in Germany the flies in the cowshed. And so many different species! Interesting to note how the individual species flock together, here the yellow ones, there the brown and somewhere else the bluish-black patterned. What are their names?
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My companion Khun Tá and I wanted to have at least a little impression of the jungle.
We asked in the office and they showed us the entry to a 1.5 km long path.
I asked whether we can recognize the path everywhere and at every point.
Of course!! And so we went.
Just behind the holy Bodhi tree a path branches off to the left from the lane. Initially it is easy to see where you're going, but then it became slowly unclear. We cross a brook. — Impenetrable? No, but there are plenty of creepers and thorny bushes.
And who pays attention, doesn't only hear the birds, but also sees a lot of very small animals. Khun Tá saw edible plants everywhere, actually he wanted to take them home.
... and what shall this be some days later?
No, there was no path, perhaps here? No!
We lost the orientation. We could only estimate where the way back to the headquarter was. My compass was in the hotel, why? - We heard a car driving along the road, so we crossed the bush in that direction early enough to be on safe ground before nightfall.
And there we found a scorpion. Well, to be honest: it was already dead.
When we arrived in the office and noted that the path was not clear, the loose answer: Correct, everybody lumbers about the bush, here and there, and then there are a thousand paths.
dead scorpion
