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The jungle day tour: Tiger Cave, Emerald Pool and the hot springs
The standard land day from Ao Nang or Krabi Town: the temple, the Emerald Pool and the hot springs waterfall, in a van, in that order.
What we checked, 18 September 2026
Seven Krabi jungle tours were listed on Klook on 18 September 2026. Three clear our bar of 9.0 out of 10 and 50 reviews with a real sample behind them and all three are listed; the one named below does not. The admission figures quoted in the body are taken from an operator's own extra-fees section, not from the authorities that run the sites, because none of those authorities publishes a rate we could read. We have not done this trip.
Verified via. Each of the three stops is a real, separately run site: Wat Tham Suea is a monastery, the Emerald Pool sits in Khao Phra Bang Khram Wildlife Sanctuary, and the Hot Springs Waterfall is run by the Khlong Thom Nuea Subdistrict Administrative Organisation. All three operators below were read off their own Klook listing pages on 18 September 2026.
Who runs it
Separate companies, listed separately. We do not average scores across operators, because the average would describe a trip you cannot book.
| Operator | Score | Reviews | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krabi Emerald Pool & Tiger Cave Temple Full-Day Tourklook | 4.5/5 (9.0/10) | 699 | varies by package |
| Tiger Cave Temple, Emerald Pool & Hot Springs Tour from Krabiklook | 4.7/5 (9.4/10) | 178 | varies by package |
| Krabi Jungle Experience: Tiger Cave & Emerald Pool One-day Tourklook | 4.5/5 (9.0/10) | 374 | varies by package |
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This is the land day: a van from your hotel, the Tiger Cave Temple in the morning, then the Emerald Pool and the Hot Springs Waterfall at Khlong Thom, which are about an hour east. It is the standard alternative to a boat, and the three stops are genuinely different from each other.
The admissions are extra, and the operators say so. One listing’s own extra-fees section states it plainly: admission to the Emerald Pool at 400 baht per adult and 200 per child, and the hot springs at 200 per adult and 100 per child, on top of the tour price. That is an operator telling you what you will pay at the gate, which is useful, and it is not the same as the sites publishing their rates. Neither the wildlife sanctuary nor the subdistrict council that runs the springs publishes anything we could read. Budget 600 baht per adult in cash for the two gates.
One that does not clear our bar:
| Operator | Score | Reviews | Clears our bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krabi Emerald Pool & Hot Spring with Tiger Cave Temple | 4.3 / 5 | 7 | No on both counts: 8.6 out of 10, and seven reviews is not a sample |
The hot springs, which nobody writes about properly. The Krabi Provincial Administrative Organisation describes the site as a waterfall of about five metres in three tiers, each tier holding four or five natural limestone basins roughly one to one and a half metres deep, with the water at 40 to 50 degrees. It publishes the hours as daily 08:30 to 18:00, all year, and advises arriving at opening or after 16:00 to miss the crush. The site is run by the Khlong Thom Nuea Subdistrict Administrative Organisation, a village council, which is confirmed by Krabi’s own open data and is why no parks department fee table covers it. One warning for anyone checking: that council’s website publishes 08:30 to 16:30 Monday to Friday, which is its office counter rather than the waterfall, and appears to be the source of a wrong set of hours in circulation.
What the temple stop usually is. The staircase at Wat Tham Suea is 1,237 steps, a figure the province publishes, and it takes most people well over an hour up and down. A group tour with a fixed lunch booking does not have that time, so the temple stop is normally the grounds and the cave rather than the summit. If the climb is what you came for, do the temple independently and take the tour for the water.
No trip prices here. Klook quotes in US dollars across several packages per operator.
Best for
A day off the water that still involves swimming
Skip if
You are hoping to climb the 1,237 steps. Most itineraries stop at the temple grounds, not the summit
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