What To Expect When Going To Nonthaburi Flower Garden

Nonthaburi is twenty kilometers from Bangkok. This place has big cultural significance for Thailand. Nonthaburi connects to Bangkok by the Chao Phraya river that have served the country both as an important communication route and as a means of defense towards Thailand’s enemies.

Among Nonthaburi’s tourist attractions would be the Suan Tan Noi flower gardens. Suan Tan Noi is a flower garden based on the Shores of the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok. The flower gardens are placed amongst an orchard and traditional homes and also a hill-tribe community.

It is a botanical flower garden featuring many different species of Thai orchid flowers, it features a large lake with a man-made water fall and lots of species of lilies being cultivated around the water features. The lake features are season-themed and show the three major periods of Thailand. The hot season, the wet season and the hot and wet season.

At the Nonthaburi flower garden it’s likely you’ll see the following types of orchids:

Anota violacea

Cattleya

Cymbidium

Laelia

Lycaste

Oncidium

Stanhopea

Vanda

Orchids commonly only flower for just two weeks for one month per year, but due to the abundance and species of orchids visitors can be sure to see several beautiful flowers at any time of year they visit. The best time to visit these flower gardens is somewhere around the month of December as soon as the weather is warm and sunny however, not wet.

To reach the garden, using a taxi from down-town Bangkok will be the simplest way for many tourists. When arriving in Nonthaburi proceed to the Chao Phrya river and disembark and walk upstream past the three temples of Wat Ko Kriang, Wat Tan and Wat Bang Tanai which can be really worth a quick visit. You may ride a passenger boat starting there to the gardens.

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