Susaan Hoi ( Shell Cemetery)

It is a natural phenomenon and is located about 20 km from Krabi, and 17 km from the town of Ban Laem Pho, close to the Laem Pho village. There are only three such sites in the whole world and in Asia this is the only one.

At first glance it may look like some slabs of concrete fallen from an invisible roof. The whole shore line has got huge boulders scattered around. In fact, it is graveyard of snail shells.

There was a large fresh water swamp in Ban Laem Pho some 75 million years ago when the swamp was full of snails. They lived and died here and eventually, layer upon layer of snail shells got accumulated.

Global changes in weather wiped out the swamp and the snail shells got fossilized to some half meter thick lignite rock. Further natural upheavals of the terrain broke these into large impressive thick sheets and boulders and distributed them all around the sea shore of Cape Laem.

The cemetery is best observed at low tides and the extent of the fossilized remains is staggering. The Shell Cemetery, otherwise known as Su San Hoi which is 17km (11 miles) from town in Ban Laem Pho.

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Contact Information

Susaan Hoi ( Shell Cemetery)
Laem Pho Village,
81000 Krabi , ST

Tel. +6675612740

http://www.krabi.com/visitor1.htm