A rather sinister myth surrounds Phra That Kong Khao Noi , a brick-and-stucco chedi dating from the late Ayuthaya period found along Hwy 23, 5km out of town towards Ubon. According to one legend (which is taught to school children around the country as an example of why it’s important to keep your emotions in check) a young, and no doubt ravenously hungry, farmer who had toiled all morning in the hot sun murdered his mother here when she brought his lunch to the fields late, and in the smallest of sticky-rice baskets. The farmer, eating his lunch over his mother’s dead body, realised that the small basket actually contained more sticky rice than he could manage to eat. To atone for his misdeed, he built this chedi .
