Information: Opened in 1973, the Pattaya Elephant Village is a private sanctuary where former working elephants can live out their lives in dignity, looked after by professional mahouts. The sanctuary generates funds to support the elephants by organizing popular tourist treks to highlight the rural way of life plus a daily show that demonstrates how elephants live and work, enabling visitors to ride and interact with them.

The Elephant Show every afternoon demonstrates bathing techniques, training methods, logging skills, ancient rites for elephant round-ups, and a performance of the War Drum ceremony (Glong Sabatchai), followed by a short elephant ride. There are also two trekking excursions: a one-hour Elephant Back Trek through fields and forest held four times daily and a Combination Trek twice daily that begins with the Elephant Back Trek and continues with a jungle walk, rafting, oxcart ride and a meal at the Village restaurant.

Information: The Happy Home Thai Cooking School was established in Pattaya in September 2007 based on the idea that cooking is an integral part of any happy home. The food that is served in the home should be based on fresh ingredients, careful preparation and beautiful presentation.

Thai cuisine offers a delicious, flavorful and beautiful alternative for the family table. At the Happy Home Thai Cooking School you will learn the joy and satisfaction of cooking your own Thai banquets through hands-on lessons with your local chef.

• 1 class: 1000 Thb.
• 2 classes: 1900 Thb.
• 3 classes: 2700 Thb.
• 4 classes: 3400 Thb.
• 5 classes: 4000 Thb.

Information: Animals include bears, elephants, buffaloes, monkeys, snakes. The key attraction is the huge aviary. This structure covers over 100 acres and houses more than 100 different kinds of birds.
Thailand's largest zoo is open plan, meaning the animals roam freely without fences, enabling visitors to get close and personal with them. Covering 2,000 acres with over 300 species located in twelve themed zones, including Africa, Cats Complex, Walk Through Aviary, Penguin Park and much more, there's plenty to occupy a day with nature discovery and picnics. Visitors can drive their own cars around, or catch one of the zoo's guided auto-trams that cover a seven-kilometre route through the various zones, allowing you to get off and on where you like.

Additional attractions include the daily Animal Show, where cute animals perform amazing stunts and tricks; Night Safari by auto-tram to discover the nocturnal habits of many animals; Zoo School (with accommodation) offers curricula for students to learn about animals and the environment. Visitors wanting to support the zoo's activities can join the Animal Adoption Programme to sponsor food and medicine for the animal of their choice.

Information: Located on an over-70-acre piece of land just 15 minutes' drive from Pattaya, this Park & Farm is a new striking tourist attraction created with more than 20 years' efforts, for all nature lovers.

It contains much more than what its name suggests. It is not only a living museum of curious and beautiful things of all the three kingdoms-animal, vegetable and mineral, but it also offers you several kinds of amusing and exciting shows.

Information: It's cheesy, it's tacky and it's cliche, but busloads of tourists still make their way to this attraction on the main highway in Pattaya. Mini Siam is a re-creation in miniature of many of Thailand's major tourist attractions, as well as reconstructions of a few structures from the past. Here you'll find copies of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha from Bangkok, the ancient Khmer temple of Phimai in Nakorn Ratchisima province, and even Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport.

Upon entering Mini Siam, and before you get to the Thai portion, there's also a front garden filled with miniature recreations of many notable monuments from around the world, such as the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Abu Simbel. Of course, there's also some souvenir shops as well as a few side-show games.

Information: A big attraction park for the whole family with swimming pools, whirlpools and waterslides. The Hotel itself is not that expensive. check for prices our database.

Pattaya Park is on Thapphraya Road, Jomtien Beach. Pattaya Park offers an amusement park, a Jacuzzi and a gigantic slide. It is an ideal outlet for family relaxation. Pattaya Park Tower the first highest seaside tower and revolving restaurant. About 240 meters height that you can see Pattaya view.

Information: Saithip Butterfly Gardens, largest butterfly garden in Asia, is a major excursion from Pattaya. Enclosing a bee museum and an orchid farm, Saithip Butterfly Garden Pattaya has a large butterfly enclosure. The place also has a small lake which enhances the natural beauty. Lying over an area of 15 acres, Saithip Butterfly Garden fills the visitors with pure joy.

You would not find a larger butterfly enclosure anywhere in Asia. Having one hundred species of thousand of butterflies, Saithip Butterfly Gardens offers great joy to the lovers of creatures. Great number of butterflies flitting around the landscape would inculcate streams of creativity in a poet's heart.

Information: The Sanctuary of Truth is a gigantic wooden construction which covers the area of more than two rais. The top point of the building is about 105 meters high. It was constructed to withstand the wind and sunshine on the seashore at Rachvate Cape, Tumbon Naklea, Amphur Banglamung, Chon Buri Province.