Wang Theptaroh Daen Mangkon Hom (วังเทพธาโร แดนมังกรหอม)

Thai. ‘Selasian Wood Palace, Realm of the Aromatic Dragons’. Name of a 25 rai plot of land in Trang's Huai Yot (ห้วยยอด) district, in an area that in the past had many Selasian Wood Trees, which in Thai are known as ton thaparoh (เทพธาโร/เทพทาโร) which means ‘Angel Wood’. After most of these trees were cut down to clear the area in order to plant rubber trees, a local resident named Ajaan Charun Kaewla-iad (อ. จรูญ แก้วละเอียด - fig.) became the architect of an intrepid project and took about 1,400,000 kilogram of the deadwood to create a theme park out of it, which includes a dragon gate and three giant dragons, i.e. a father dragon, which is the largest of the three, for which 18,000 kilogram of Selasian wood was used, and which took 4 months to build; a mother dragon that spews water from its mouth, for which over 6,000 kilogram of wood was used, and which took 3 months to complete, and a baby dragon, for which over 1,000 kilogram of wood was used. Since Selasian wood comes from an evergreen tree within the genus Cinnamomum, it is aromatic and hence the dragons are. The gardens also has some other features and the entire project reportedly took the owner 5 years to complete. In English, referred to as Dragon Tree Sculpture Garden. See also TRAVEL PICTURES and MAP. 回