Thung Prong Thong, Rayong

Thung Prong Thong is located in the community of Ban Saem Phu, Pak Nam Prasae, Klaeng District. It covers an area of ​​over 6,000 rai, which was originally an area where villagers fished, raised shrimp, farmed, and planted fruit trees. Until the natural resources in this area were destroyed and the mangrove environment deteriorated. Pak Nam Prasae Subdistrict Municipality has collaborated with the villagers in the area to develop the largest mangrove forest in Rayong Province into a tourist attraction for conservation and learning at the same time. By building a nature study bridge for a distance of approximately 2 kilometers. Thung Prong Thong is considered a tourist attraction that provides knowledge and understanding of the mangrove ecosystem. You can see the natural beauty of the mangrove forest, prong trees, and coastal trees. The highlight is the prong trees that grow densely all over the area, reflecting the light green color, creating a beautiful and unusual prong gold field. To travel to Thung Prong Thong, when entering the Pak Nam Prasae community, passing Wat Takhian Ngam, you must park your car at the parking lot. There are 2 places to visit, each paying 20 baht. Then take a local tricycle to the starting point to walk to see the golden prong field, paying 5 baht per person/trip. The nature study trail is a bridge that stretches for about 1 kilometer and ends at the Prasae Sea, where the HTMS Prasae is located. If walking, it takes about 1 hour, but most tourists like to walk to see only the golden prong field, which takes only a few hundred meters to walk to. The best time to visit is in the morning and late afternoon, because the atmosphere is not too hot and it is the time when the sunlight shines on the golden prong leaves, turning them bright yellow. This nature study trail is considered an area full of mangrove forests. Along both sides of the path are various types of plants, including mangrove, black tabun, Lamphun, rhizophora, red prong, and golden prong trees, which are habitats, shelters, and nurseries for aquatic animals that like to live in mangrove forests, such as shrimp, shellfish, mangrove crabs, fiddler crabs, and climbing fish. The wooden bridge winds through the mangrove forest for about 200 meters, then it reaches the golden prong field, which is full of prong trees tightly packed together. The light yellow-green leaves are so dense that you can barely see the ground below. When the leaves are exposed to sunlight, they reflect a bright gold color that fills the entire field. At this viewpoint in the middle of the field of the prong trees, you can see a panoramic view, as if you were surrounded by a golden yellow field, contrasted by the dark green edges of the mangrove leaves that surround the area. #RayongTourism