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Thailand's Dusit Zoo puts Arabian Camels on show for New Year
BANGKOK, Dec 23 (TNA) – Thailand’s Dusit Zoo features the debut of endangered Arabian Camels, adding to its glee of activities during the forthcoming New Year festival for Thai and international tourists.
The Dusit Zoo or "Khao Din Park" will launch the rare show of "Tobius", the only two Bactrian camels in Thailand, loaned from the Khao Khiew Open Zoo in the country's eastern Chonburi Province, to join nationwide celebrations of the 2011 New Year. The endangered duo is native to the high plains of Central Asia, where they are mostly found in Gobi Desert bordering China and Mongolia.
Other highlighted activities to be organised by the Dusit Zoo during the New Year festivity include the Thai zoo's seven great wonders and amusement shows featuring a variety of clever seals and other animals. International visitors are welcome to the Dusit Zoo for the New Year shows from December 31, 2010 to January 1, 2011.
The Dusit Zoo, Thailand's oldest zoo, is located in central Bangkok next to the Dusit Royal Palace. It was built in the reign of the late King Chulalongkorn, or King Rama V the Great, originally as a royal garden before becoming the most renowned zoo in Thailand todays.
Meanwhile, a consul at the Danish Embassy to Thailand joined a ceremony at the Dusit Zoo today to commemorate the 110th anniversary of a golden teak--regarded as one of the zoo's seven wonders and notably planted together by the late Thai King Chulalongkorn the Great and Prince of Denmark on January 3, 1900 to symbolise long-term sound relations between Thailand and Denmark.(TNA)
The Dusit Zoo or "Khao Din Park" will launch the rare show of "Tobius", the only two Bactrian camels in Thailand, loaned from the Khao Khiew Open Zoo in the country's eastern Chonburi Province, to join nationwide celebrations of the 2011 New Year. The endangered duo is native to the high plains of Central Asia, where they are mostly found in Gobi Desert bordering China and Mongolia.
Other highlighted activities to be organised by the Dusit Zoo during the New Year festivity include the Thai zoo's seven great wonders and amusement shows featuring a variety of clever seals and other animals. International visitors are welcome to the Dusit Zoo for the New Year shows from December 31, 2010 to January 1, 2011.
The Dusit Zoo, Thailand's oldest zoo, is located in central Bangkok next to the Dusit Royal Palace. It was built in the reign of the late King Chulalongkorn, or King Rama V the Great, originally as a royal garden before becoming the most renowned zoo in Thailand todays.
Meanwhile, a consul at the Danish Embassy to Thailand joined a ceremony at the Dusit Zoo today to commemorate the 110th anniversary of a golden teak--regarded as one of the zoo's seven wonders and notably planted together by the late Thai King Chulalongkorn the Great and Prince of Denmark on January 3, 1900 to symbolise long-term sound relations between Thailand and Denmark.(TNA)
