Phu Kradueng National Park is one of the most popular national parks in Thailand, and spending the night atop Phu Kradueng is something of a rite of passage for many students. Capped by its eponymous peak, the park covers a high-altitude plateau cut through with trails and peppered with cliffs and waterfalls. Rising to 1316m, Thailand's second national park is always cool at its highest reaches (average year-round temperature is 20°C), where its flora is a mix of pine forest and savannah. Various forest animals, including elephants, Asian jackals, Asiatic black bears, sambar deer, serows and white-handed gibbons inhabit the 348-sq-km park.
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