Loei is a province in the northeast of Thailand. Its geographic features are like the North, that is, there are mountains with cool temperature and fog. One place that is popular among travellers who love challenging experience is Phu Kradung National Park. It is said that the couples can prove their love by going to the peak of Phu Kradung.
Thai Dam Cultural Village is located at Ban Na Pa Nat, Tambon Khao Kaeo. Initially, the Thai Dam people migrated from Muong Thanh or Dien Bien Fu, Sip Song Chu Thai region, Vietnam, around 1907, to settle down at Ban Na Pa Nat. Presently, there is the conservation of the Thai Dam culture, houses built in a uniquely original style of the Thai Dam people, and everyday life utensils showing the way of living in the past. Furthermore, there is a local cloth weaving group. Visitors can see the villagers’ weaving and buy products as souvenirs.
Nature trails complete with flowers, orchids, trees, birds and wildlife, as well as cold weather throughout the year. And is beautiful in all seasons.
Phrathat Si Song Rak was constructed in 1560 and completed in 1563 as a memorial of the assistance between the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (during the reign of King Chakkraphat) and the Kingdom of Lan Chang (Vientiane) during the reign of King Chaiyachetthathirat. Moreover, within the compound of the temple is enshrined a Buddha image canopied by a seven-headed Naga in the Tibetan style of art. On the full moon day in the 6th lunar month, the Dan Sai people or “Luk Phueng Luk Thian” will organise a ceremony celebrating Phrathat Si Song Rak by bringing Ton Phueng, (a bamboo framework in a castle shape with a width of 60 centimetres and a height of a bit over 60 centimetres, covered with engraved banana stalk and decorated with “Dok Phueng”, flowers made of round and thin pieces of sun-heated wax, as well as, attached with the Globe Amaranth or small pieces of Turmeric to represent the colourful pollen). Moreover, Thian Wian Hua (a stick of candle rolled to be long enough to wrap around one’s head) is also presented to Phrathat. It is considered as a holy tradition taking place every year from the end of April to May.
Suan Hin Pha Ngam or Thailand’s Kunming is located at Ban Pha Ngam, Mu 10, Tambon Puan Phu. It is a limestone garden aged around 230-280 million years, occurring from the aggradation of beach deposits. Then, an uplift of the earth’s crust, together with millions of years of natural rot have made this mountain be strangely beautiful, similar to the stone garden in Kunming, the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, it was named “Thailand’s Kunming”.
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