Kaeng Chet Khwae National Park

Kaeng Chet Khwae national park covers the area of Kaeng Chet Khwae National Park and PhuDaeng Ron National Park, which has beautiful waterfall along Khwae Noi stream and is the important sightseeing location. The area of this national park is around 163,125 Rai or 261 square kilometers locating in Wat Bot district, Chat Trakan district, Nakhon Thai district, and Wang Thong district in Phitsanulok province. Because in present day, the many forest areas are being trespassed, damaged, and claimed. This causes the unbalanced of nature and the lead of drought, which causes rain to not fall during seasonal time. In order to stop the problem of deforestand claiming the land, the government has created policy of increasing the preserving forest area. The Royal Forest Departmentwas reported from Phitsanulok’s Royal Forest Departmentthat the area of Kaeng Chet Khwae National Park and PhuDaeng Ron National Park are beautiful sightseeing area and the surrounding forests are still keeping its fertility and are appropriate to be counted as National Parks. The general topography is wide mountain rangesand has very fertile forest. The forest is composed of mixed deciduous forest, dry dipterocarp forest, and hill evergreen forest, which are filled with many significant kinds of trees and also economically important such as teak, craib, xyliaxylocarpataub,Burma padauk,iron wood,resin, etc. It is also wild animals’ living place such as barking deer,wil boar,monkey,langur,palm civet,porcupine,rabbit, many species of birds, variety of snakes, Bengal monitor, and especially different species of fish.