By: APINYA WIPATAYOTIN
Published: 9/12/2008 at 12:00 AM The Botanical Garden Organisation (BGO) has plans for a 50 million baht canopied walkway at the Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden in Chiang Mai for nature tours.
The 350-metre walkway would be the longest covered walkway in Southeast Asia, acting BGO chief Withoon Karuna said yesterday.
The promenade would be 25 metres above ground to give visitors a better view of the garden and a deeper understanding of the diverse plant varieties housed there. "New attractions for visitors are needed," he said.
The BGO was looking for a design contractor. He expected construction to be completed next year.
It was hoped the new walkway would attract more tourists, with projections that the number of visitors would jump from 300,000 to about one million a year.
The Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden is spread over 6,000 rai in Chiang Mai's Mae Rim district and contains more than one thousand plant species. It is popular with botanists and nature lovers.
The 157-metre long skywalk in Malaysia's Kinabalu national park was built in 1990 - the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Malaysia recently built another canopied walkway in Luta Bukit Hijau in Kedah state.
The BGO also plans to build a botanical garden for marine plants in the Andaman Sea area.
Mr Withoon said this was planned in response to HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's concern over a dramatic decrease in sea grass and other marine plants in the Andaman Sea. The marine plant house would likely be built in Phangnga or Ranong provinces, he said.
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