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Great Reasons Why You Need To Pay A Visit To Ko Samui Flower & Butterfly Garden

By: Jessie Stone

The Ko Samui Flower and Butterfly garden is located at Laem Natien and it is around the south-eastern coast of Ko Samui close to the Central Samui Village resort and also near to the Aquarium. This tropical park contains literally thousands of butterflies as well as plant species that are indigenous to Thailand. There is also an observatory looking over the coastline, and the garden can organize tours of the nearby coral reefs in Ko Samui.

The butterflies and plants are maintained within big and tall nets to hold the butterflies in, also offering shade which is much needed for many of the kinds of vegetation and to help keep the tourists away from the sun. Many photographers come to these gardens, you can frequently see Japanese and Korean enthusiasts experimenting with their macro lenses – snapping up a little of nature's beauty to bring home with them.

Visitors can easily see numerous species of butterflies, along with several giant butterflies that have wing-spans well over 25 cm. Many of these butterflies are very hard to find and endangered species. Along with butterflies you can see numerous other types of insects including crickets, grasshoppers, stick insects and bees. Indeed there's a big bee area where you can see honey being collected and processed. You might want to purchase some of this great tasting honey to take home with you.

You can find an insect museum in the gardens; you can view unique insects from Thailand as well as other parts of the planet. These consist of live insects which include large lady-bugs, huge stick insects, and scary looking spiders and also not so frightening dead preserved insects that may be purchased as a souvenir.

The Ko Samui Flower & Butterfly garden is a great day out for your family. You can find entertainment for the children, as well as sweets and ice cream once they became tired of walking around in the heat. Grown ups too will enjoy lounging around on the grass in the shade of the tree, an excellent place to read a book and loosen up in the idyllic surroundings.

The entrance for the gardens is 200 baht. The easiest way to go to the flower gardens from down-town Samui is by taxi cab priced at roughly 250 baht one way. There are numerous tours which can be book from the tourist companies in Ko Samui which will include a half-day tour of the Flower & Butterfly gardens before moving on to take you to other other attractions in Ko Samui.

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The author is an authority in the field of leisure and gardening in Thailand. Should you need more information about the Ko Samui Flower and Butterfly garden then you can visit www.gogoflorist.com for more details.

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