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Satun Geopark -
Tham Le Stegodon |
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ถ้ำเลสเตโกดอน |
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Tham Le Stegodon is an unfamiliar name. It is a river cave
located between Satun and Trang provinces in the South, about
900km from Bangkok.
The cave has been promoted as a new
tourist destination by the Tambon Administrative Organisation
(TAO) of Thung Wa. It has a river called Wang Kluay running
through and flowing to mangrove forest and the sea. Visitors can
ride a kayak along the river 4km inside the cave to find the
spot where there are 1.8 million-year-old fossils of the
Stegodon, a proboscidean with a physical resemblance to
present-day elephants.
"The route is the longest cave
journey in Thailand," said TAO Chief Narongrit Thongprue. The
entrance is in Ban Khiriwong, Thung Wa district of Satun. The
TAO has built a rest area, public toilets and elephant
sculptures together with a large sign at the front of the
entrance.
According to Narongrit, the Stegodon fossil was
found seven years ago by three locals living near the cave. Like
other people in Thung Wa, they often went inside the cave to
fish for giant river prawns. But one day during the dry season
in April 2008, one of them accidentally found a strange shaped
rock with eight ridges on the surface. |
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Thung Wa |
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Thung Wa |
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Cave |
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https://www.bangkokp |
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Free |
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7.12357, 99.79873 |
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