Sights in Nakhon Phanom Province
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Wat Phra That Phanom
This temple is a potent and beautiful place; even if you're feeling templed-out, you'll likely be impressed. At its hub is a tâht, more impressive than any in present-day Laos and highly revered by Buddhists from both countries. Many people believe that visiting seven times will bring them prosperity and happiness so it's something of a pilgrimage site.
The tâht is 53.6m high, and a five-tiered, 16kg gold umbrella laden with precious gems adds 4m more to the top. Many Thais believe that the Lord Buddha travelled to Thailand and directed that one of his breast-bone relics be enshrined in a chedi to be built on this very site: and so it was in 535 BC, eight years after his…
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Wat Phra That Renu Nakhon
This temple’s 35m-tall tâht is a replica of the previous chedi built in That Phanom and is considered very holy. Renu Nakhon is known for cotton weaving. The finished products are sold in the big handicrafts market on the grounds of Wat Phra That Renu Nakhon.
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Museum
The museum near the Wat Phra That Phanom tells the history of the tâht and also displays a hodgepodge collection of pottery, gongs, US presidential commemorative coins and more.
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Thai-Lao Open-Border Market
Hundreds of Lao cross the river to shop and sell at this biweekly market. It's mostly the same tat found in other Thai markets, but a few of the Lao traders in front of the temple sell roots, honey, bats and other forest products.
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Kuson Ratchadagon Street
Standing high on the road in front of Phra That Phanom is an arch that symbolically connects the tâht to the Mekong River. The block of French- Indochinese architecture between the arch and the river is reminiscent of old Saigon and a couple of the interiors are nearly museum-quality timeless. A few shops sell Vietnamese foods.
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