It was a fairly pleasant two hour drive but I was still recovering from spending three days in the sun, so I was a little stoned (so to speak). This farm/hotel is located in the Ratchaburi province. It is called the Scenery Resort and it really had sheep like the ones we think Mary had. We paid our entrance fee (80 baht) and after putting on the apron (in case the sheep get excited and jump up) we went into the enclosed area with a big bunch of leaves.
Man, these animals may look all fluffy and cute but they were aggresive when it came to food. They pushed, they shoved and baa-ed really loudly while we held onto the leaves and tried not to get trampled on or fall on the grass that was strewn with little nuggets of poo. They had really thick coats of wool and I wonder how they survive in this heat. It was about 37C when we were there. They were pretty energetic and I even saw a few jump over the fence to get at the food.
There is a restaurant there that surprisingly has only one lamb dish (and it's NZ lamb) on its menu. Guess the sheep there are to add to the scenery only and not to feed the hungry hordes (people like me).
Only drawback is that becuse of the heat, there were loads of flies and the restaurant is open air. So if you don't fancy fighting with flies I would suggest that going there during the cool 'winter' months would be a better idea.
On the whole it was a nice way to spend a Sunday as we discovered yet another part to Thailand that we never did.
2 comments:
It doesn't look like Thailand at all! You could've told me it's NZ and I would've been fooled. Looks like Sean had a great time :)
Poor sheep - must be so hot for them. Do they have an air conditioned pen that they go back into, after the hordes of tourists leave ?
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