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Phuket
Butterfly Garden & Insect World
On
display is a wide range of Magnificent Butterflies, a colourful
tropical garden and houses of abundant insects...
Locate in
Phuket town at a district called Samkong. You can find the
home of butterflies set in a natural rainforest. A trip to the
Phuket Butterfly Garden & Insectarium will give you an experience
with nature that you'll never forget. An educational journey through
the rainforest & a trip into paradise. Great for all ages.
Entry Fee : Adult 200 Baht - Children Below 10 Yrs 100 Baht
Open Daily : 9.00 A.M.-17.30 P.M. Tel. (076) 215616, 210861.
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Phuket
Aquarium
(And Phuket Institute of Marine Biology & Research Centre)
More than one
hundred species of sea life are on display at the aquarium, many of
them taken from the water around Phuket. The aquarium is located at
Cape Panwa, on the island's extreme southeast; admission is 50 Baht
for children and 100 Baht for adults. A Songtaew (local bus) can be
taken from the Talad Sot, or Fresh Market. Tel. (076) 391126.
Open daily, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Khao
Phra Thaeo
Wildlife
Conservation Development and Extension Center
22.28 square
kilometers of virgin forest are covered by this
park, which also
actively conserves a number of wild animals; they would otherwise be
extinct in fast-growing Phuket. It is a center for study of the
environment. Forest vegetation is spectacular : Giant trees
supported by huge buttresses are thick with creepers and climbers of
every description. One species of palm found, the
Governor's Palm or
White Back Palm (palm lang khao in Thai) is especially rare.
Languor, barking deer, mouse deer, deer, bear, wild boar, monkeys,
gibbons, and many species of birds inhabit the forest.
Khao Phra
Thaeo serves also as one of Phuket's most important water sources.
Also located in the park is the:
Gibbon
Rehabilitation Center
The
Gibbon
Rehabilitation Center is a center of saving many kinds of
rare gibbons. You will find the center if you head out of
Phuket Town towards
the
airport and turn right at the Heroines monument. The
Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (GRP) is a research division of the
Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand (WAR) working in
co-operation with the Royal Thai Forest Department (RFD). It was
established in Phuket in January 1990, with the support of the RFD,
by the organization Asia Wildlife.
It is a project dedicated to help return domesticated gibbons
to the wild. The GRP became the research arm of WAR in 1994. It is
currently the only Gibbon Rehabilitation Project in the world.
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Phuket Zoo
South
of
Phuket town on Soi
Phalai, on the east side of Phuket island, you can find Phuket Zoo.
It's area covers 62 rai and is a fun place to see a large collection
of animal and reptiles such as lovely rabbits, 60 kinds of birds,
more that 100 kinds of butterflies and more than 6,000 crocodiles.
In addition, animal performances such as clever elephants and
monkeys make visitors enjoyed and amazed. Meanwhile, those get the
exhilarated and exiting feeling in fighting between men and
crocodiles without weapon.
The zoo is open daily 8:30 am - 6:00pm
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Show Times |
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- Monkey
Show
- Crocodile Show
- Elephant Show
- Butterfly Garden |
9:00 am, 12:00 am,
2:30 pm, 4:45 pm
9:30am, 12:45am, 3:15pm, 5:30pm
10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:00pm
9:00am - 17:30pm |
Snake
Farm and
Cobra Shows :
Phuket Snake Farm -
Patong Beach
At the snake farm, just like in a zoo, you will get a general idea of
how many different kinds of these boneless creatures that exist. A man
will show different snakes and a woman will in her best English explain
the effects of the venoms. You also will get the chance to pet a living
cobra and have a very close look at its teeth .
S how times: 10am, 12am, 2pm, 4pm, 5pm daily
Kinnaree House -
Chalong
Similar to Phuket Snake Farm
Show times: 10am, 12am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm daily
Phuket
Monkey School
Trained monkeys show of their skills such as picking coconuts,
diving, basketball playing and counting.
Crocodile World &
Elephant Land
Located at Chana Charoen Rd.
at
Phuket Town. A tropical garden showing elephants, crocodiles,
alligators birds and snakes.
Daily shows in the morning and
afternoon. Open daily 9am - 6pm
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