Petrified Wood Museum, Korat
They say that there are only three things to do in Korat, but that's bollocks.
Once you've been married for a few years there are only two things to do... visit Korat Zoo or go to the Petrified Wood Museum.
Today we went to the Petrified Wood Museum, which also has an extensive section devoted to the evolution of elephants and a large section about dinosaurs. I have a personal interest in this as I started my working life as a geologist in tunneling before going offshore. I was a proper geologist back then, actually looking at and touching rocks, but the problem with working in tunneling is that you have to move with projects and never settle anywhere. The great thing about working offshore is that you can live just about anywhere - yet I still ended up living in Korat...
We've been several times before and it appears that my young daughter has inherited my interest in geology as she requested another trip today.
The Petrified Wood Museum is around 30 to 40 minutes drive south of Korat, close to the zoo (so you could theoretically do just about all that Korat has to offer in one day and save yourself the bother of living here). Maybe I'm being unfair, I don't know. Anyway, if you don't know the area, enter in 'Petrified Wood Museum, Korat' and Google will get you there, no problem.
This is what you are looking for.
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A bit confusingly you have to buy tickets from a kiosk quite some distance from the actual museum. It cost us 110 Baht to enter, 10 Baht for my daughter and 100 Baht for me. That's life I guess, but I didn't really mind as the cashier was cute. And yes, I really am that shallow.
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After the ticket kiosk a short walk gets you to the museum, and during that walk you can see a couple of Tyrannosaurus rex's having a scrap on an island in the middle of a pond. 10 Baht gets the one on the right to start roaring and snapping his lower jaw. I've made extensive use of my daughter as a scale for the museum exhibits. She's nearly 9 foot tall so gives an idea of the impressive size of these dinosaurs.
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There are two main areas to the museum; the Petrified Wood building...
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And the Elephant Evolution/Dinosaur building....
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