Pak Chong

Khao Yai became Thailand's first national park in 1962 and is the country's largest tract of intact monsoon forest, with wild elephants and hornbills in it; Pak Chong is the town you arrive through. The hills above it turned out to sit at a workable altitude for vines at fourteen degrees north, a latitude where wine was long thought impossible, and the new-latitude vineyards here now supply most of what Thailand drinks of its own.