Description of the attraction
A few kilometers north of Phuket city, not far from the Tesco Lotus shopping center and the 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 ceremonies. 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 do elephants continue to haul logs.
The village is adorned with 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 a particular 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 branches of flowers for 10 baht. All the flowers in the boxes are marked with an appropriate quarantine sticker allowing the export of orchids overseas (in some countries, such as Australia, there are very strict rules when it comes to the delivery of plants or food from Thailand).
