With AQI in the range 150-200, four hikers turned out for this shortish hike at Queen Sirikit Botanical Gardens. There was no concession for elderliness at the ticket booth, which was perhaps fair enough since you are as young as you feel, and we all felt pretty young.
Contrary to the prior hike notice, the leader proposed doing the loop in an anti-clockwise direction, and the other hikers co-operated with good humour, even when it turned out we were spending too long in the maze of paths in the lower-middle of the gardens. By the time we reached the main viewpoint (pictured above), the idea of walking the new forest/hill paths on the east side needed to be abandoned, although two of us did go up to the start of that path in order to check it was real and not just a cartographic fancy.
We re-grouped for coffees and ice-creams in the cafe by the canopy walkway, before completing the downhill stretch of our ramble.
Three of us retired to Between cafe, where we found they have built an interesting new walkway and swinging bridge extension going some way up the stream valley.
Hike leadership and reporting by Michael. Photos by Michael, Janet and Bussakorn.
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