Million Years Stone Park

The Million-year-old Stones Park is an amazing park created by businessman and philanthropist Hong Xuan Phanomattanakula 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 the past 30 years, the park has been recreating the amazing flora and fauna of Thailand bit by bit. Rare animals and plants can be seen in the park, and the only beauty in the country can be compared to the tropical Nong Nooch Garden. The million-year-old Stones Park, like an open-air museum, is surprised by its fountains, paths, ponds, waterfalls, unusual trees, and landscape. No less interesting will be the rock garden, which features fossilized trees that grew long before humans appeared. You can also see Bonsai trees, which have been worked on by master decorators for many years. Animal lovers can go to the mini zoo and get to know deer, horses, lions, elephants, tigers, zebras, as well as marabou, parrots, peacocks, ostriches, pelicans. If desired, for a fee, you can feed an elephant or take a picture with one of the animals, or even personally feed a tiger cub with milk from a bottle.

Crocodile Farm

A walk through the park will bring a lot of impressions. You can sit on a bench by the pond and feed the huge carp and catfish that are not afraid of visitors. But for even more emotions, you should definitely go to the crocodile farm, which is home to over 50,000 crocodiles of all ages. This is the largest crocodile farm in Pattaya. The reptiles bask all day in the scorching sun, swimming from place to place in an artificial pond. There are crocodile shows almost every hour. In a separate arena, the trainers, after praying, kiss the crocodiles, drag them in different directions by their tails, stick their hands and even their heads into their mouths. At the end of the show, for a fee, you can ride a reptile or even hold its cub. The rest of the time, you can walk around the farm or participate in feeding. This pleasure will cost about 80 baht, for this money they will give a chicken carcass, which the visitor puts on a large stick into a pond with dozens of crocodiles. Crocodiles lazily watch their prey and quickly jump out, slamming their mouths when the pole moves over them. You can try to trick them and quickly raise the pole, then there will be another attempt to tease them. Many visitors do not stop there and feed the animals several times.

At the crocodile farm, you can buy crocodile skin products in the souvenir shop: belts, bags, purses, and even suitcases. After the tour, it is better to go to a local restaurant, which serves the first and second courses of crocodile eggs, fried crocodile eggs. It is worth noting that exotic dishes are quite expensive.

There is no public transport to the million-year-old stones Garden, and you can only get there by taxi. It is better to arrange a return trip in advance.