Tortoise village

"The one in Thailand that has a lot of turtles live with humans"

I really believe that many people don’t know this village. It is just a small village in Thailand. But there are surprising that other places. Not like here. Well, Thailand Unknown this time grad to introduce you to know The tortoise village of Thailand

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tortoise Village called Kok village located in Mancha Khiri city, Khon Kaen province, just 56 Km. from Khon Kaen, There, you gonna meet many Turtles like never seen before

People here call this type of turtle that Pek Turtle or Yellow Turtle ‘cause It has a brown crust (The scientific name ; Indotestudo elongata) 

Oh Turtle family

Tortoise shell with high Similar Hmwkehlek military. Mature size with a yellow carapace length 30 cm, weighing 7 kg, strong legs, but short. The large scales on the skin. Stand behind the legs of elephants. Inches, no membrane Nails strong. Abdomen of the male carapace is slightly concave. Female's is flat. Turtle carapace is brown to black. The belly is yellow. It has a black insert in the middle. The legs are yellow with black and gray with yellow scales. Nails are yellow or white. Turtles are bred in the late rainy season. After about 1-2 months, according to a spawning ground. Females use the hind legs. Dig a hole deep crust and at the end of the half. 4-6 eggs per nest, the eggs will look like chicken eggs. But a little shorter and a little rough. Egg shell eggs are hard to sea. Mother turtles will drown out the soil into the eggs until the eggs will hatch out of their own. Eggs will take about 3-4 months to hatch during the birth of a turtle shell is very soft. The body size of the turtle carapace length of 3-5 cm will be stronger at the age of 1 year.

Park's turtles entrance

If you come to this village. You can watch many turtles at the turtles park . There is a small guide. Waiting to guide you. But it must be in Thai language :P

little guide

Home stay in village

or resort nearby

And There is also home stay in the village where you can stay overnight as well. Or You want privacy. Not far from the village (4-5 km) you can stay in fine resort. For travel on this trip. I strongly recommend the use of private cars. A personal guide to navigate. In order to continue in other locations in this province because there are many more that are interesting in Khonkaen you don't know. I might suggest you next time.

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