Accommodation in Khao Sok National park Thailand?

Question

Im visiting Thailand next october and im strugling to find accurate info about accommodation in Khao Sok, any advises?

Answer 1

Accomodation or camping in all national parks in Thailand

Answer 2

The caretaker government extended emergency rule for another 90 days in the strife-torn southern border provinces yesterday, saying the additional powers are still a vital part of its counterinsurgency efforts.

“Emergency rule is still needed to protect public lives and property,” said Deputy Prime Minister Chitchai Wannasathit.

“Officials have agreed that emergency rule is required as the unrest continues unabated.”

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra imposed the emergency powers in the three southernmost border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in July 2005, prompting criticism from human rights observers.

The powers give security forces immunity from prosecution, and the right to detain suspects for 30 days without charge, conduct searches and make arrests without a warrant and to tap phones.

The extension of the emergency decree every 90 days has become a formality during the past year. Observers say there is no sign the government is considering reining in emergency rule or even amending aspects that have raised concerns.

“I think the government should sit down and take a look at all sorts of things, and one would be reviewing the emergency decree so it can ameliorate the human rights concerns and try to rebuild relations between the community and the government and the armed forces operating in the area,” said Francesca Lawe-Davies, who monitors the insurgency for the International Crisis Group.

“Immunity from prosecution is one of the major problems. Being able to arrest people without any evidence is also a major problem as it is used as an alternative to proper investigations, which doesn’t actually help to build up a more detailed picture of the insurgency.”

Despite the sweeping powers the government has failed to arrest or prosecute any key militants and critics say the supposed intelligence and operational gains of the emergency decree do not outweigh its negatives.

Lawe-Davies argued that the military already had the powers it needed to deal with the insurgency, and suggested other measures that would help counterinsurgency efforts.

“I don’t think [the security forces] need extraordinary powers,” she said. “In order to tackle an insurgency the armed forces are already legally equipped to do what they need to do and there’s no need to loosen human rights protections in order for them to do their jobs effectively.

“What is perhaps needed to bolster the effectiveness of the forces is to improve the forensic capacity of the police, and to improve the languages skills of all the officers deployed to the area and to improve things like cultural awareness.”

Observers say arrests made under the emergency powers have helped the security forces to gain basic information about the structure of the militant movement and its recruitment patterns. However, it is unclear how much of these minimal gains are attributable to the emergency decree.

Martial law has also been in place in four districts of Songkhla since a decades old separatist insurgency resurfaced in the region in January 2004.

More than 1,300 people have been killed in the region in the past two and a half years and the government has admitted that it is no closer to reining in militants behind the almost daily bombings and shootings.

Answer 3

go to thailand tourism site or
www.tourismthailand.org
www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/asia/thailand
www.thailand.com
www.sawadee.com
i have been to thailand but was discouraged by local guides from visiting Khao Sok as they said it was not a good idea staying there