Million Years Stone Park

The fleet of million-year-old stones is an amazing park created by businessman and philanthropist Hun Suan Fanwattanakula on an area of almost 30 hectares. The park is a 15-minute drive from the center of Pattaya and is the main attraction of the city, which is included in the program of visits by many tour operators.

For 30 years, the amazing flora and fauna of Thailand has been recreated in the park in bitches. In the park you can see rare animals and plants, and in beauty in the country, only the tropical Nong Nuch garden can be compared with it. A park of million-year-old stones, as if an open-air museum is surprised by its fountains, paths, ponds, waterfalls, unusual trees, landscape. No less interesting will be the stone garden, in which fossilized trees grow long before the appearance of people are presented. You can immediately see the trees of Bonsai, over which many years the master decorators have been working. Animal lovers can go to the mini-zopark and get to know more about deer, horses, lions, elephants, tigers, zebras, as well as with marabu, parrots, peacocks, ostriches, pelicans. If you wish, for a fee, you can feed the elephant or take a picture with some of the animals or even feed the tiger with milk from the bottle with your own hand.

Crocodile Farm

Walking in the park will bring a lot of impressions. You can sit on the bench by the pond and feed huge carps and catfish that are not afraid of visitors. But for even greater emotions, you will certainly need to go to a crocodile farm, in which over 50,000 crocodiles of all ages live. This is the largest crocodile farm in Pattaya. Reptiles bask all day under the scorching sun, swam from place to place in an artificial pond. Almost every hour, shows with crocodiles are held. In a separate arena, trainers, having previously prayed, kiss crocodiles, drag them in different directions by the tails, stick their hands and even head in the mouth. At the end of the show, you can ride a reptile or even hold its cub for a fee. The rest of the time you can take a walk on the farm or take part in feeding. This pleasure will cost about 80 baht, for this money they will give a chicken carcass, which on a large stick a visitor sticks into a pond with dozens of crocodiles. Crocodiles lazily watch the prey and quickly jump out, slamming their mouth when the pole moves over them. You can try to trick them and raise their pole quickly, then there will be another attempt to tease them. Many visitors do not stop there and feed animals several times.

At a crocodile farm in a gift shop, you can buy crocodile leather products: belts, bags, wallets and even suitcases. After the tour, it is better to go to a local restaurant serving the first and second dishes from crocodile, eggs from crocodile eggs. It is worth noting that exotic dishes are quite expensive.

Public transport does not go to the garden of million-year-old stones; you can only get by taxi. It is better to agree on the way back in advance.