Tropical Park Nong Nooch
Nong Nooch Tropical Park - 2.4 km2 botanical gardens and local attractions located on the 163rd kilometer of Sukhumvit Road in the province of Chonburi, Thailand, near the resort town of Pattaya.
In 1954, Mr. Pisit and Mrs. Nong Nuch Tansacha acquired land. It was originally planned to create fruit and vegetable plantations, but later it was decided to orient the park to tourists, and restaurants, bungalows, pools, banquet rooms were created. In 1980, the park was open to all comers. In 2010, at a florist exhibition in the UK in Chelsea, Nong Nuch Garden won the « Tropical Plants » nomination.
Now Nong Nuch Tropical Park is one of the largest botanical gardens in Southeast Asia. Here is a rich collection of tropical plants. Much attention is paid to the conservation of endangered species. The seeds of such plants grown in Nong Nuch, the garden staff are ready to send out to everyone. The garden consists of demo gardens with a unique landscape design, made in different styles, collectible plantings, special rooms where butterflies are kept, orchids and cacti are grown. There are two large artificial ponds, a miniature railway, a theater, a zoo, a college of landscape architecture. Students, and 700 people study at each course, undergo practical practice in the park. The entire territory of the park is conveniently covered with a network of tracks that will lead you to all interesting corners and allow you to enjoy magnificent views. The terrain is interestingly played. In many places, suspension bridges are installed through ravines, where visitors pass at the level of tops of palm trees and can consider their inflorescence and fruits. At the central entrance, a bright composition of flowering cut shrubs unfolded. She repeats the lines of the relief, even the tracks pass under the slope.
In the Tropical Park, Nong Nuch is assembled and continues to replenish a unique collection of palm trees and ferns. In September 1998, the park was hosted by the International Palm Society ( 200 delegates representing 33 countries ), who found that the park has the largest collection of palm species growing in one place. Currently, there are 2600- — 2800 species and varieties of palm trees in the world, of which 1100 species are registered in Nong Nuch Park. In the coming years, it is planned to increase the collection to 2000 species. The main goal of the director and management of the park is to collect the most complete collection of species and varieties of palm trees. Currently, the collection contains some types of palm trees that are found outside the range of their growth only here. In the future, their importance as an object of research by professionals or simple admiration for plant lovers cannot be overestimated.
Tourists often call Nong Nuch Sad Orchid. Indeed, the orchids – special pride of the park. The process of growing these tender and fragile plants is very time-consuming. They are grown here in greenhouses in special suspension baskets. Orchids – epiphytes, in nature, orchids do not grow on the ground, but settle on tree trunks, content with tropical rainwater and nutrients that can be taken from the surface of the crust. Orchid seeds are very small and easily carried by the wind. Thailand is now growing a huge number of species of orchids. They decorate cocktails, make veins that hang on the houses of spirits near houses where Thais come to pray every morning. In addition to orchids and palm trees, in Nong Nuch Park you can admire the large collection of cacti, the most common of which is ounce. On this cactus, a midge is settled, from which red paint is obtained.
Since 2000, the Butterfly Garden has been opened in Nong Nuch, which is a small-sized house. About one and a half thousand of these insects live here, among which there are kids and real giants, the largest butterflies in the world. In their garden, among the boosts of tropical plants, they live freely: first, gluttonous greens reap, then the stage of the chrysalis follows and at the end of life for only 2-4 weeks a bean beauty appears, which should have time to lay eggs and give life to the next generation.
Since 2001, the owner of the Nong Nuch Tropical Park is the son of Madame Nong Nuch - Campon Tansacha. One of his hobbies was car racing and sports cars. However, in the fleet of the current owner of the garden there are not only sports cars, all cars in the collection are exclusive. Campon Tansacha fleet is located in the center of the garden itself, about 40 cars are located on two floors of a specialized car park. Visiting the fleet is part of the excursion program. The collection contains cars of such famous brands as Cadillac, Ford, Lotus, BMW, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Mini, Nissan. Inspection of this collection is included in the price of the admission ticket. The price of visiting the park also includes two shows. The first – folklore, with traditional dances and dances of different nationalities of Thailand. The second – show of trained elephants with an elephant farm park.
