Ethnographic Village and Orchid Garden (Phuket Orchid Garden & Thai Village) description and photos - Thailand: Phuket Island (Topic)

Phuket Orchid Garden & Thai Village description and photos - Thailand: Phuket Island. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Phuket Orchid Garden & Thai Village.

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A few kilometers north of Phuket city, near the Tesco Lotus shopping center and Samkong temple, there is an old tin mine, on the territory of which an ethnic Thai village was built. Here you can find 4 restaurants, a playground for children and pavilions that house souvenir shops, craft workshops and a stage where various shows take place twice a day - at 13:00 and 15:30, attracting hundreds of tourists. It features Thai martial arts and traditional dances, sword fighting and wedding ceremony. The performance takes 45 minutes. After that, you can go to a show where elephants demonstrate their skills in carrying logs. From time immemorial, elephants have been used to prepare firewood. The exploitation of elephants by logging factories is now prohibited. Only in the Thai village, elephants continue to haul logs.

The decoration of the village is a large nursery, where many exotic and rare varieties of orchids are grown and sold. Walk through the 1600 sq. m takes about an hour or two. If tourists like this or that flower, they ask the staff about the possibility of purchasing it, since not all local copies are sold. A small box with an orchid costs 300 baht, a large one - 500. There are also separate flower sprigs for 10 baht. All the flowers in the boxes are marked with an appropriate quarantine sticker that allows orchids to be exported overseas (some countries, such as Australia, have very strict rules when it comes to shipping plants or food from Thailand).

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