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As the sky blackens, for other places, it is the time to close down for the day as there is nowhere else to visit. But at this Mangrove Resources Development Station 2 (Ban Tha Sorn), once the sky is darkening, there is have a breathtaking activity awaiting to explore.
This is to experience the magnificent lit insects sparkling through the forest.
At 7 o’clock, the station’s staff members will pick you up to begin the firefly tour.
The electric trolley runs quietly along the firefly scene th
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Known as the “Red-backed White-necked Eagle” by the locals in the Welu River estuary, these birds have a common name called “Brahminy Kites”.
The Brahminy Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey. Female adults are bigger than the male adults. The length of a female when measured from its beak to the tail is approximately 51 cm while the total length of a male is shorter at approximately 48 cm. They are distinctive in appearance with a hefty body, short neck, big round eyes, and grayish beak with th
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Phu Kum Khao is a hill formed in the middle of a rice field in Sahatsakhan district of Kalasin Province. Phu Kum Khao is the excavation site where the fossilised remains of dinosaur skeletons were mostly discovered.
The history of the Phu Kum Khao dinosaur excavation site began in 1970 when Phrakhru Wichitsahatsakhun, the abbot of Wat Sakkawan, the temple located at the foothill of Phu Kum Khao, discovered and kept fossils of large animal skeletons. Until in 1980, Varavudh Suteethorn led a tea
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Phu Wiang is a stomach-shaped mountain range that stretches from the North to the South. In the middle of the eastern side of Phu Wiang is an inland basin surrounded by a ring of mountains with an elevated flat-top called a tableland.
The geology of the Phu Wiang Mountains is classified as non-marine Mesozoic rocks in the Korat Group, of which the strata was initiated in the time of the Jurassic Era. Other groups of the same geological time are Nam Phong, Phu Kradueng, Phra Wihan, Sao Khua, Ph
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Nong Yong, Nong Priao, Nong Khae, and Nong Du are the 4 mascots that were created to promote the TAT’s “Dinosaur Sa-On” tourism campaign. Dinosaur Sa-On was a 260-km route that started from Phu Wiang, Khon Kaen province, and continued through Phu Kum Khao and Phu Faek, Kalasin Province. The route was considered Thailand’s richest and most complete source of dinosaur-themed expedition.
Nopharat Kokwan, Director of the TAT Khon Kaen office, discussed the 4 mascots’ names that they originated
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Even though dinosaurs have been extinct from the Earth for millions of years, we can still learn about their different species from the fossilised remains left in the excavation sites.
When a dinosaur died, most of its remains were decayed completely. By a small chance, however, given the right location and the right timing, some of the remains would be preserved as fossils.
For example, dinosaurs that died in a river-edge beach were rapidly buried under sand or mud sediments; thus, were pro
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