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Million Years Shell Cemetery

Million Years Shell Cemetery

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Opening days: Daily
Opening hours: 08.00 - 17.00
 
Million Years Shell Cemetery It is located on a low mountain, about 1 kilometer away from a single farm village. Originally, this place was known by the locals as Pong Hoi according to its geography. which is transparent means that the water is stagnant throughout the year.
 
As for the mollusks that originate in the basin, there are a large number of rocks shaped like different types of mollusks. village people has been recounted as a legend, a folk tale that The current shell cemetery area originally contained two giant eagles. Come to live in the nest in the trees every day. The two giant eagles will fly to eat shellfish, eat crabs at the big swamps in the Himmapan forest and come back to sleep in their nests. always like this.
 
At night, the two giant eagles excreted their shells and left them at the base of a large tree every day until it became a mountain with only shells we see today. Villagers therefore believe that the shell-shaped rock Born from a pair of eagles that come to nest in the water basin. Go out to find food such as shrimp, shellfish, crabs, fish and come back to transfer their excrement in the water basin.
 
The geologists have come to explore and inform them that it is a single cliff shell or a single shell and a stupa shell or a stupa. which is a freshwater snail about a million years old Ready to be registered as an ancient shell cemetery in the primeval era because the area is a tent Rock and stone shards Sand and mud The Quaternary and Tertiary sediments range from 1.6 million to 10,000 years old and are open as a tourist attraction. 

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