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Covering an area of 12 rai, the Underwater World Pattaya is housed in a circus tent like structure that lets in natural light, nurthuring the algae. The aquarium houses over 200 species of marine life, local as well as from overseas.
The highlight of Underwater World is a 100-meter-long pedestrian tunnel made of 6.4-centimeter-thick Plexiglas, through an underwater environment filled with dozens of marine species.
Location: Sukhumvit Highway south-west of Pattaya (200 meters south of Tesco Lotus in South Pattaya)
Daily from 09.00 am to 6.00 pm
Admission: 360 Baht for foreigners
Phone: 038 756859
The Bottle Art Museum specializes in glass bottles containing elaborately crafted creations, including sailing usual vessels. The exhibits are the works of the Dutch master Peter Bedelais. The museum is located at Km.145 of Highway No 3.
Daily from 11.00 am to 8.00 pm
Admission: 100 baht for adults and 50 baht for children
Phone: 038 422957
The highlight of the Three Kingdom Park is a wall painting of the world famous historical story ‘Romance of the Three Kings’, a fifty –chapter Chinese epic. The park is situated at 100 Mu 9, Pong sub-district, Banglamung, Chonburi and also contains some oil color paintings on canvas of the 16 chapters of ‘Khon Beng’. The architecture is in the Chinese-Thai style and the park also contains sculptures from the epic as also a Buddha’s relic, found in a cave in Lam Phun.
Daily from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm
Admission: 150 baht for adult and 50 baht for children
Phone: 038 421428/9
Khao Pratamnak or Khao Phrabat is a small hill to the South of Pattaya beach. An asphalt road leads up to the hilltop. The Naval radio station now occupies the hill and is the site for monument of Krom Luang Chumpon Khet Udomsak, the Father of Royal Thai Navy, is situated. A sacred Buddha image is also enshrined on the hilltop. The view point on the hilltop offers a panoramic view of Pattaya city and bay.
Mini Siam houses miniature replicas of such outstanding architectural works as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Democracy Monument, Bridge over the River Kwai, Prasat Hin Phimai, etc. Replicals of the Tower Bridge, Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and Trevi Fountain displayed in the “miniworld” area. Mini Siam is located at 387 M.6 Sukhumvit Road (Km 143), Pattaya, Chonburi 20150.
Daily from 07.00 am to 10.00 pm
Admission: 200 baht
Phone: 038 421628/424232
This beautifully landscaped recreation park houses groups of traditional Thai houses and gardens of different flowering plants in a typical Thai setting.
About 18 kilometers south of Pattaya (left turn off Sukhumvit Road at Km.163), the Nong Nooch Tropical Gardenalso has daily cultural and elephant shows (Show times 10.15 am and 3.45 pm).
Daily from 8.00 am to 6.00 p.m.
Admission: 300 Baht
Phone: 038 429321/422958/238158-60 (Pattaya)
02 252 1786/252 9975 (Bangkok)
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