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Pra That Cave, Kanchanaburi
 

Located in Erawan National Park, just 10 kilometers north of Erawan Waterfall. It contains monumental stalagmites and stalactites.

Comment# 1 at: 2008-10-14 22:36:03 Comment by: Tor

Location: Situated far away 12 kilometres from Erawan National Park.
The introduction of this cave is coincidentally discovered by Mr. Mak BoonThong who was the nearer local farming. Once, he was chasing the deer who find the food therefore, chasing and follow it to the mountain and occasionally found this cave. Originally, this cave was called “Dusitmahima”. Owing to the villagers, believed that there was Phra That inside the cave, has white color like conches and found many of them inside the cave in the past. At present, there are no more conches due to collection of the villager. The beautiful stalagmite and stalactite found inside the cave. Majority of them is transparency and had the figure of Phra That sand stone or the eagle bird closed the wings to be settled at the center of Phra That cave. Besides, there was the stilt stone, secondary pillar (as the supported pillar features), hibernating frog, sky lmitate, bowling pin. The remarkable point is coral reefs, theatre point. As before, the tourists will contact the officer whom always taken a pressure lamp to access inside the cave. The open official hours is 8.00 A.M. – 4.00 P.M. The distance from beneath to the beginning of the cave is about 480 meters, took around 1 - 1/2 hours visiting there.

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