The learning center following the footsteps of the Luang Pho Luang is located in Moo 3, Sappaya Sub-district (Huai Krot-Sappaya Road), the Sufficiency Economy Learning Center.
Agricultural Technology Promotion Center for Economic Insects Chiang Mai Province Established in 1980 It is an agency under the Department of Agricultural Extension. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives It plays a major role in research studies. Test and apply economic insect farming technology Promote and transfer economic insect culture technology as a center for development, production, expansion and distribution of economic insect species, as well as providing basic product quality inspection services and diagnosis of diseases and pests of economic insects to farmers and interested parties. It is also a tourist attraction. Agribusiness that is open to both Thai and foreign tourists to get to know and learn about the life of bees and important economic insects of Thailand. Each year, both Thai and foreign tourists visit to study work and travel to the learning points that the center has exhibited, such as learning points on beekeeping, bee breeding, burrow bee, cricket, lac, queen bee, and product processing. and also provide “Honey Shop” product display and distribution point where tourists can watch, taste and buy real, good quality honey and other processed products. of community enterprises and entrepreneurs
Tourism program :
Learning point/base interesting activities
1. Breeding bees. Open house for breeding bees. (Acquaintance with bees, life cycle and well-being of bees in the hive) Keeping and maintaining bee health checks collecting nectar from flowers
and sap. Preliminary analysis of honey quality.
2.Honey bees Wild bees make money. (Get to know the burrowing bees and natural nest building. Traditional poaching beekeeping techniques Modern honey beekeeping Protecting against the pests of honey bees Techniques for collecting good quality honey
3. Chan Rong Open House Chan Rong (Get to know the amazing mini bee, the best pollinator). propagation Nectar, pollen and resin collection behavior of saplings Making resin extracts and their uses
4. Crickets
Crickets are the world's reserve protein food source. Commercial cricket species Standard farming techniques and management Processing crickets as food
Learning point/base interesting activities
5. Shellac: Get to know lac insects/life cycle and benefits. Transplanting plants for lac culture farming techniques Care and harvest Technology for protection and nursery of lac species during the dry season
6. The queen bee opens the experience of finding the queen bee queen in the hive. birth of queen bee The Great Duties of the Queen Bee Techniques for cultivating queen bees
7. Processed products
Watch/Taste/Touch A variety of bee products, natural gifts. The benefits of bee products
Tips for buying honey Processing bee products into products for daily use
Route links with other attractions:
- Chiang Mai Night Safari Night Zoo, distance 750 m.
- Royal Park Ratchaphruek, a distance of 1 km.
- Wat Inthrawat (Wat Ton Kwen), a distance of 2.5 km.
- Wat Phra That Doi Kham, a distance of 4.4 km.
- Baan Tawai Handicraft Center, a distance of 10 km.
- Wiang Kum Kam, a distance of 11 km.
Sirinat Rachinee Mangrove Ecosystem Learning Center is the first mangrove rehabilitation center from abandoned shrimp farms in Thailand. Originally, it was a shrimp farm located in the Pa Khlong Kao National Forest Reserve - Khlong Khoi, Pak Nam Pran Sub-district. Pranburi District Prachuap Khiri Khan. When the King Rama 9 and the Queen came to Pranburi, The Royal Forest Department responded by canceling the shrimp farming concession and then included as part of the Pak Nam Pranburi Forest Development Project. They accelerated the restoration of mangrove forests and designate them as target areas for reforestation and later develop into a mangrove ecosystem learning center.
Phra That Kong Khao Noi is located in the rice fields of Tambon Tat Thong; it is an old chedi in the Khmer period, built in the 23rd-25th Buddhist century, corresponding to the late Ayutthaya period. It is located in the area of Wat Phra That Kong Khao Noi which was originally just a rice field in Tambon Tat Thong
Phra That Kong Khao Noi is a brick and cement chedi. The shape is strange from the general pagoda is characterized as a rice hull. The Phra That is a rectangular chedi with three wooden indented corners. The square base is 2 meters wide on each side and raised about 1 meter in height. Next to this part is the top of the chedi, which is gradually approaching each other, while the outer peak of Phra That Kong Khao Noi is surrounded by a brick wall measuring 55 meters in size.
In addition, behind the relics there is a Buddha image made of bricks. The villagers regarded it as very sacred. And in the fifth month, people come to bathe the Buddha image and cover it with gold. It is believed that if this were not done, the rain would have dried up that year.
Also in the area of Ban Tad Thong, the Fine Arts Department has excavated the stories of prehistoric humans by discovering human skeletons in prehistoric times and painted utensils in Ban Chiang style
Enjoyable with the fullest tour of fruits buffet tasting such as durian, rambutan, mangosteen, longkong, on an area of 41,600 square meters. Watch a demonstration of durian harvesting and selling processed fruits.
- Enjoy the gorgeous anthurium blooms and take photos of them.
- Explore the Nepenthes Pot
- See paphiopedilum exul orchids
- Photograph beautiful colourful pineapples and enjoy the mountain environment
Route links to other attractions:
Tha Pom Khlong Song Nam, in a distance of 6.9 kilometers
Ao Thalane, in a distance of 11 kilometers
Khao Garos, in a distance of 11 kilometers
Crested Nak Mountain, a distance of 12 kilometers
Wat Tham Suea, in a distance of 12 kilometers
Nopparat Thara Beach, in a distance of 16 kilometers
Ao Nang Beach, in a distance of 17 kilometers
Shell Cemetery, in a distance of 19 kilometers
Nam Dun Thray Dud Miracle pond
Nam Pud upstream forest
Black flowers
Nam Lod Cave
Battlefield historical Cave
Tarn Prueksa Waterfall or Bang Khuy Waterfall
Sufficiency Economy Philosophy House is a learning center of the new agriculture theory. Inside the integrated garden, is planting vegetables for household consumption adhering to the sufficiency economy philosophy of King Rama IX. It is also the pilot model of growing rice berry in the 400 plastic tanks that results in the 20 tanks of paddy, which is sufficient for consumption all year round. Later, numbers of villagers and foreigners visit this place. The lecturer is available to provide knowledge about the SEP to the students and interested people.
The Royal Agricultural Station Angkhang is an ecotourism site where the nice garden and the interior design are very beautiful and attractive. This is the famous place for tourists to visit and see the cold weather plants and flowers growing. Numbers of tourists visit Doi Angkhang and the Royal Agricultural Station Angkhang, especially in winter.
"Suan Lamai" is a large orchard on an area of over 800,000 square meters with a tram service for tourists to explore the orchard and enjoy various kinds of fruit in a buffet such as a Rambutan, Mangosteen, Longan, Grapefruit during fruit season. During the Winter, "Suan Lamai" will opens for visitors to visit a Strawberry farm and colorful Cosmos flowers garden. There's also a sheep farm for animals lover who wants to feed a sheep and take photos with those sheep.