Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Nong Bua Lamphu - Dinosaurs


Dinosaurs are everywhere in Isan. I earlier wrote about the very good, but extremely remotely located, dinosaur museum in Kalasin.


A very interesting fossils museum is located in Nakhon Ratchasima and in Nongkhai, a dinosaur (wearing a hat) is found outside the aquarium. What a dinosaur has to do with aquatic life is a mystery to me, but equally baffling is that at its feet are statuettes of pigs and sheep, which also don’t have much to do with marine life.
Nong Bua Lamphu also has a dinosaur museum. The impressively named “150 Million Years Stone Shell Museum” is located on the main road (route 216) between Nong Bua and Udon. There isn’t much advance notice or signage about the existence until an initially puzzling warning sign alerts motorists to the fact they are only a few hundred meters from the entrance to the museum.
The museum is worth a visit but only if you anyway are in that neck of the woods. 

Another point of interest nearby is a temple – off highway east of Nong Bua Lamphu town – which is built entirely out of tree trunks and planks collected from nearby forests. The construction is still on-going (as it has been for a decade) as monks and local villagers chip in whenever construction materials become available.

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