Tuaran Crocodile Farm, a crocodile adventure land 32km from Kota
Kinabalu city center. is located along the Jalan Sulaman Highway,
less then a kilometer from Shangrila Rasa Ria Resort, guests are greeted by a crocodile
cartoon painted on the entrance
There were many crocodiles in the farm and the set-up of
the farm is interesting. We walked on bridges, over the crocodiles. We stroll around the farm, visiting more that just crocodiles-
ostrich, lizards, fish,
This is the first time Yin seeing a real crocodiles to compared
with what she usually see in Animal Planet.
The crocodile farm is the largest crocodile farm in Sabah with
more than 1,000 crocodiles. Open daily from 8.30am to 5.30pm, it is one of the place for
family adventure.
We are the first visitors to arrive Tuaran Crocodile Farm that
morning.
There’s a Murut Longhouse inside. Cultural dance is shown half an
hour after every crocodile show time in here.
The crocodile farm was first open on 2005 and operates as a branch
of one of the three other crocodile farm in Sandakan and Langkawi.
This successful crocodile farm started
50 years ago where one young boy from a fishmonger family started
with small pond when a fishermen gave him small crocodile
caught in their fishing nets. From there, this boy gradually manage to built
up his carrier breeding more than 3,000 crocodiles each year
and the business keep going forward.
Here they sell Crocodile eggs at RM2.00 each! Other than that
they are also selling Crocodile skin, snake skin,
souvenirs etc
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