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INTRODUCTION
Blue
Elephant Cooking School is located at 96, 1/3 Krabi Road, the site
of the well-known Phra Pitak Chinpracha Mansion. This historic
Sino-Portuguese style was built in 1903 by “Tan Ma Sieng” or Phra
Phitak Chinpracha (1883-1949), Chinese Tin Baron, and ancestor of
“Tandavanitj patriarch”.
A
splendid building, it is a combination of European and Chinese
style. The architecture is European (Sino-Portuguese), while it was
decorated in traditional Chinese style, especially with a big
ventilator on the rooftop called “Shim Jae”, which is “Hok Kiean”
feng-shui science. The front is open to the South and captures fresh
breezes throughout the year.
This elegant old mansion is owned by the Tandavanitj tribe. In the
past, it was used as the governor's residence. Since the death of
Khun Pracha Tandavanitj in 2006, his wife Khun
Jularak
Tandavanitj occasionally
opened this historic 105 year-old building as a private house
museum.
And
because of its history and the beautiful scenic surrounds of this
mansion, it was used as a location for several movies including
“Heaven and Earth”, "the Killing Fields", and TV's "Young Indiana
Jones Chronicles". Moreover it is also won a conservation award from
the Thai authorities, in the 1990s.
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