Now, when I saw the sign, I thought that this may be where most of Thailand's ex-bar girls retire to when they get too old for the flesh trade. My second thought was that it was some kind of theme park with fun and games.
Alas, what the sign is actually about is what is being marketed as "Isan's Best Kept Secret". In 2007 the Department of Mineral Resources opened a new US$12 million museum about 30 km north of Kalasin city and close to the Phu Kum Khao dinosaur site. The Sirindhorn museum houses Southeast Asia’s largest collection of dinosaur bones comprising more than 800 pieces, as well as collections of fossils from Thailand and elsewhere, models of dinosaur skeletons, and various video presentations with Thai and English explanations.
While this is all great fun on a rainy afternoon, let me point out that this "secret" tourist destination will remain very little known and with very few visitors for the simple reason that it is located in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, Kalasin is obviously proud of its prehistoric creatures.
In case you were wondering, the Palaeozoic Era was two hundred million years ago and the museum is named after HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
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