Depart the hotel for the "Sam Roi Yod" ("Three Hundred Peaks") National Park, 45 kms south of Hua Hin.  See the local rice fields, sugar palms, pineapple plantations and prawn farms, and visit Wang Daeng, an unspoilt fishing village. A steep 30-minute climb nearby brings you to a hidden large, beautiful cave with a magnificient gabled pavilion inside, built by King Chulalongkorn in 1890. Solid walking shoes should be worn if possible.

Half-day tour to the provincial capital of Phetchaburi, 60 kms north of Hua Hin. See the former hilltop Summer Palace of King Rama IV (King Mongkut) known as Phra Nakhon Khiri, or more popularly as "Khao Wang". Visit also Wat Kamphaeng Laeng, a former Khmer sanctuary which later became a Buddhist temple, and then proceed to a fascinating underground cave with 170 Buddha images. 
 

This 4-hour tour will give you a chance to learn more about Thai culture, way of life, local handicrafts and other sights and attractions in and around Hua Hin.  You will visit Hua Hin Railway Station built in the reign of King Rama VI.  Visit a fishing village and Phra Ratchaniwes Marukkhathaywan, the Summer Palace of King Rama VI, one of the largest teakwood dwellings in Thailand.

Visit Pa La-u waterfall located within a verdant evergreen forest where various kinds of birds and butterflies are found.  The waterfall has 11 tiers of rocks, some of which can be reached along a trekking trail parallel to the stream. 

Afternoon tour of Ratchaburi, 140 kilometres north of Hua Hin. Visit Wat Mahathat temple in Ratchaburi town, with a Khmer-style pagoda copied from Angkor Wat.  Then proceed about 5 km to Tham Reusi Khao Ngoo (“Hermit Snake Mountain Cave”) containing a Buddha image dating from the Dvaravati Period (1st-2nd century A.D.).  Later, outside another cave not far away known as Tham Khang Khao, watch more than a million bats which fly out every evening to feed at sunset in a long, winding trail like a wisp of dark cloud.