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Chansoma
Its exquisite brocade fabrics (pâh yók torng) incorporate threads made of real gold and silver, but the weaving process is just as impressive as the finished cloth. Four women, including one sitting a floor below the others, work the loom simultaneously and collectively manage over
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Heritage Walking Street
This wonderful old street offers a glimpse of a bygone Kanchanaburi. Many shops date from the turn of the 20th century and the variety of buildings include Sino-Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese styles. Yellow signs reveal the history and architecture of nearly 20 of them. D
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Phae Meuang Phi
The name Phae Meuang Phi means Ghost-Land, a reference to these bizarre pillars of soil and rock that look like giant fungi, most likely the result of erosion, not the paranormal. The park is located approximately 18km northeast of Phrae off Rte 101; getting there by public transpo
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Wat Ahong Silawat
Wat Ahong Silawat, on the east side of the village, is built amid ruddy boulders at a river bend known as Sàdeu Námkong (the Mekong River’s Navel) because of the large whirlpool that spins here from June to September. A 7m-tall copy of Phitsanulok’s Chinnarat Buddha gazes over the
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Wat Ketkaram
Chiang Mais exalted river is Mae Ping . A community of Chinese traders and Western missionaries populated the eastern riverbank directly across from Talat Warorot. Today the neighbourhood is called Wat Ket, the nickname of the nearby temple, Wat Ketkaram. The temple was built in th
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Telaga Tujuh
The series of freshwater rockpools at Telaga Tujuh, located at the top of a waterfall inland from Pantai Kok, make a refreshing alternative to splashing about in the ocean. To get here follow the road from Pantai Kok past Oriental Village (SkyCab is well signposted) until it dead-e
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Wát Suan Mokkhaphalaram
Surrounded by lush forest, Wat Suan Mokkhaphalaram (‘the Garden of Liberation’), charges 2000B for a 10-day program including food, lodging and instruction (although technically the ‘teaching’ is free). Retreats, run by the International Dharma Hermitage, begin on the first day of
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Chuvit Garden
The eponymous benefactor of this park ran unsuccessfully for Bangkok governor in 2004, and successfully for the Thai parliament in 2005 and 2011. This park was one of his early campaign promises. It’s a pretty green patch in a neighbourhood lean on trees. Yet the story behind the p
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Wat Mahathat Worawihan
Centrally located, gleaming white Wat Mahathat is a lovely example of an everyday temple with as much hustle and bustle as the busy commercial district around it. The showpiece is a five-tiered Khmer-style prang (stupa) decorated in stucco relief, a speciality of Phetchaburi’s loca
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Prasat Wat Sa Kamphaeng Yai
Thirty kilometres west of Si Saket via Rte 226 in Amphoe Uthumphon Phisai, Prasat Wat Sa Kamphaeng Yai, built as a shrine to Shiva, features four 11th-century prang and two wí·hăhn (large hall in a Thai temple, usually open to laity) . The prang (including the main one, which was b
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Gurdwara Siri Guru Singh Sabha
Just off Th Chakkaraphet is this gold-domed Sikh temple. It’s a large hall, somewhat reminiscent of a mosque interior, devoted to the worship of the Guru Granth Sahib, the 17th-century Sikh holy book, which is itself considered the last of the religion’s 10 great gurus. Prasada (bl
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Khao Phra Wihan National Park
The main attraction of the 130-sq-km Khao Phra Wihan National Park is one of the regions great Angkor-period monuments. Unfortunately Khao Phra Wihan (Preah Vihear in Khmer), which used to sit on the Thai side of the border, now comes under Cambodian rule, due largely to a campaign
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Hua Hin Hills Vineyard
This vineyard is nestled in a scenic mountain valley 45km west of Hua Hin. The loamy sand and slate soil feeds Rhone grape varieties that are used in their Monsoon Valley wine label. There are daily vineyard tours from 1700B, including wine, an excellent three-course meal and retur
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Ho Chi Minh Educational & Tourism Historical Site
During 1928 and 1929, Ho Chi Minh used the jungle around Nong Hang village as one of his bases to train soldiers and rally Isans sizeable Vietnamese community for his resistance against the French occupation of Vietnam. This is a replica of his thatched-roof, mud-wall house, plus a
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Ao Khlong Prao
Khlong Prao’s beach is a pretty sweep of sand pinned between hulking mountainous headlands and bisected by two estuaries. At low tide, beachcombers stroll the rippled sand eyeing the critters left naked by the receding water. Sprawling luxury resorts dominate here and the primary p
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Tham Morakot
This beautiful limestone tunnel leads 80m into a hôrng on Ko Muks west coast. No wonder long-gone pirates buried treasure here. You have to swim or paddle through the tunnel, part of the way in pitch blackness, to a small white-sand beach surrounded by lofty limestone walls. A pier
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WWII Museum
Perhaps the best thing to say about this place is that the view of the Death Railway Bridge is great. The top of the tower in the northwest corner is the best viewpoint. The museum itself is an eclectic and ramshackle but well-intentioned collection of artefacts. Most relate to the
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Wat Phra That Narai Cheng Weng
About 5km west of town at Ban That is an 11th-century Khmer prang (known as Phra That Nawaeng, a contraction of the words Narai Cheng Weng) in the early Bapuan style. Originally part of a Khmer-Hindu complex, its missing much of its top, but still features several good carvings inc
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Wat Phra That Choeng Chum
The most visible highlight at Wat Phra That Choeng Chum is the 24m-high Lao-style chedi, which was erected in the 17th century over a smaller 11th-century Khmer prang and is now topped by a solid-gold umbrella. The name means Stupa of the Gathering of the Footprints Temple because
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Wat Lai Hin
If you’re visiting Wat Phra That Lampang Luang and you’ve got your own transport, you might also consider a visit to beautiful Wat Lai Hin, also near Ko Kha. Built by artists from Kengtung (also known as Kyaingtong and Chiang Tung), Myanmar, the tiny temple is one of the most chara
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