This are Geo-location comments and addition to "Island map of blessed Rudraksha Trees". Complete photo & video archive updating on our Tree Photo Bank. Also sharing for free distribution photo-originals of 108 Shiva names, and link to its video. Current status of information on this page is "private" - first we sharing it with selected groups of people, who we think can use it for the trees protection and goodness. All worrying cases and negative factors - both where we "in-work" or "just-noting", with ideas to improve it we inviting to discuss separately, preferably in real meetings.
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Area of Phra Manora waterfall "Manora" is the local name of "Apsara" in Vedas - divine heavenly female creation. Waterfall itself was a place of our discovery the first seeds of rudraksha - it happens under two big trees of santol. Large river-flowing area with bamboo, palms and tall trees give a space for the party of fruit flying foxes. Trees here has early fruits, as in South part in general, when at the same time in a center of island rudraksha trees just blossoming (and in the north - no even flowers).
Here Kan Kao's bring freshly-picked rudrakshas from all the area nearby. Big back beads, spiky "phra-" beads, gigantic beads.
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Places around - south of island
Tree near Nai Temple Pagoda, dedicated to Garuda - king of the birds. With old snake, this tree angled down, has very own oblong kind of beads, photo-2.
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Garden of restaurant, river area with 1` big and other smaller but double tree - it was a First tree we recognized. Big food-fest of flying foxes also holds in this area (beginning of September-17)
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Below elephant camp, twin coconut palm, shining mushrooms - tree of pot-belled ideal golden beads, with 3 neighboring trees and few above opposite the road. Photo 1
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Area of Phaeng waterfall Few big trees on a road to Phaeng we found later. Place inside the park - left-high area, where the flying heroes coming to taste the fruits, - they flying from trees of Khao Ra outskirts. On a right side of park we feed the deer's couple - they loves to eat rudrakshas at whole. Some beads in season collected at parking - under the coconut palms. Some, inc. 1 five-mukhi - near the first (and only here) natural swimming pool near the gate. Picture of flowers on a bridge. Picture of Rudraksha fruits on a branch. Tallest tree outside. Other tree outside near the park - both on a road.
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OLD TREE
Bought years ago by wise monk, who wants to save some lands & trees from mass destruction due to the wood sales. Few areas around the island includes this grove with oldest Rudraksha tree, described below. |
Kan Khao meeting place
Every FUll-Moon during the fruit season of Rudraksha fruit flying foxes has a special party-meetings with big eatery and celebrations - both Full-Moon and ripeness of fruits. |
Elephant Park
Biggest elephant on the island walking in blossoming lotus lake is definetely the gem of that area. Few trees of Rudraksha gives small beads in a season. |
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Than Sadeth waterfall First beads were collected on the entrance to the temple, where we already frequented to grow Cacao. Grove behind the temple was a place where we collected first hundred of Rudrakshas from various trees. Small curved (form of mulberry). Trees growing further on a road to the beach.
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Temple area and sacred grove
Big trees here attracts many fruit foxes every season, with various types of forms of Rudraksha beads. |
Rudraksha Tree Club
8 trees on 2,5 hectares of private land, now released for Tree Ownership to club members. With "pay for land" option its gonna be the real beginning of smart protection of holy trees! |
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Lands below Khao Ra Gardens under the restaurant and grove on a right side - fruitful area of medium and big-sized rudrakshas. One tree here has same roots with tall coconut! This area is one of the remaining unspoiled area of the initial island's landscape.
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Central grove - "Tree Bank" - Oldest tallest tree of Rudraksha with small "Phra" beads on a middle road.
Angle-Tree with old snake.
OLD TREE GROVE
Oldest and highest tree among noticed, grows with 2 other smaller Rudrakshas. 1 tree fall down without a human impact, what can be connected both with underground water or termites. Rare shaped - very interesting- small Rudrakshas were found here. |
Cut
Local farmers usually cut down young trees of Rudraksha, being confident in its useless. But even old big trees were cut down - we noticed it twice, without special research in that direction. |
