Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Prasat Phimai is one of the most impressive Khmer ruins in Thailand, both in its grand scale and its intricate details. Though built as a Mahayana…
Must-see attractions in Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Cool and lush, Khao Yai National Park is an easy escape into the primordial jungle. The 2168-sq-km park, part of a Unesco World Heritage site, spans five…
Khao Yai National Park
Nam Tok Haew Narok ('Hell Gorge Waterfall') is in the far south of Khao Yai National Park, 23km from the visitors centre. Its three levels combine to form…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
Thao Suranari, wife of the assistant governor during Rama III's reign, is something of a Wonder Woman in these parts. Ya Mo (Grandma Mo), as she’s…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
The city's most interesting temple was said to be founded by local heroine Thao Suranari and her husband in 1827. Half of her ashes are interred in a…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
One of the biggest and best museums in Isan, the Phimai National Museum is well worth a visit. Situated on the banks of Sa Kwan, a 12th-century Khmer…
Khao Yai National Park
This excellent private gallery has three rooms of modern art from some of Thailand's top artists, including Anupong Chantorn and Lampu Kansanoh, and a…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
Though the collection at this seldom-visited museum is very small, it's very good. There's prehistoric pottery (don't miss sneaking a peek at what's…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
An enormous market that's almost a city unto itself, 'safe wan' doesn't just stand out for its size, it offers more than just the usual Thai market tat…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
A bit east of town is Thailand's largest and oldest banyan tree, a 350-plus-year-old giant spread over an island. The extensive system of interlocking…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Three excavation pits with replica skeletons (the originals were damaged over time) and pottery left in situ from the 1991 excavations are on display in…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Locally known as Wat Phra Norn ('Temple of the Reclining Buddha'), this temple is significant for housing a 1300-year-old, 13.3m-long reclining Buddha…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
When the abbot of Wat Phayap learned that blasting for a quarry in Saraburi Province was destroying a beautiful cave, he rescued pieces of it and…
Khao Yai National Park
The top-tier winery closest to the Khao Yai National Park entrance, which is 16km away, is home to Thailand's first female oneologist, Nikki Lohitnavy. It…
Khao Yai National Park
One of the first wineries in Thailand (it corked its first bottle in 1998), PB Valley is 22.5km from the Khao Yai National Park gate. It's scenically set,…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
This large temple is of interest primarily for three holy Khmer sandstone sculptures that were unearthed here – Vishnu (Phra Narai in Thai) is the holiest…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
This little white building is a sort of museum to local heroine Thao Suranari, with a cool diorama and an even cooler sculpted mural of the famous battle…
Khao Yai National Park
The park's loveliest waterfall, 25m-high Nam Tok Haew Suwat scooped a starring role in Danny Boyle's film The Beach. It has water year-round (though very…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
Khorat's city pillar shrine is pretty ordinary, but it has a large Dan Kwian (a nearby pottery village) ceramic mural on the wall beside it. It shows…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
The city's only original gate left standing. It was a part of the city walls erected in 1656 by French technicians on the orders of King Narai (Ayuthaya)…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
This south gate is the most intact and noteworthy of Phimai's three surviving 13th-century city gates (the east gate is in ruins), built by King…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
This minor ruin was the temple for a health centre built in the early 13th century by Jayavarman VII. It's aligned generally to the east, typical of Khmer…
Khao Yai National Park
Up over 1100m, this is the most impressive of Khao Yai National Park's viewpoints. And it's rarely crowded. It's part of an easy 500m boardwalk nature…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Meru Bhramathat is a toppled brick stupa dating back to the late Ayuthaya period (18th century). Its name is derived from a folk tale that refers to it as…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
This small but good museum houses some of the artefacts found around Ban Prasat. It also explains what village life was like in those days and in the…
Khao Yai National Park
Little Nam Tok Kong Kaew sits just 150m from the Khao Yai National Park visitors centre.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Phimai city's northern gate, built by King Jayavarman VII in the 13th century.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Phimai city's western gate, built by King Jayavarman VII in the 13th century.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Right in the centre of the main moat, this is the most significant of Muang Sema's ruins, after Wat Dhammachakra Semaram. Labelled as Monument 1 on the…
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
The wooden pillar at the centre of this small shrine was once used for tying up sacred 'white' elephants that passed though Khorat on their way to be…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
There's almost nothing left of Phimai city's eastern gate, built by King Jayavarman VII in the 13th century. But, a bit of the original moat and an…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Phimai's city pillar is unusually short and stubby because it's a laterite block taken from Prasat Phimai.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Tha Nang Sa Phom, a 13th-century pier constructed out of laterite, is now on the grounds of the Fine Arts Department compound.
Khao Yai National Park Northern Gate
Khao Yai National Park
This is the main entrance to the park, and where you pay your entrance fee. The visitors centre is 14km further on.
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
An ornamental city gate built in the location of the original northern gate.
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
An ornamental city gate built in the location of the original southern gate.
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
An ornamental city gate built in the location of the original eastern gate.
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat)
One of the city's night markets takes place in front of this temple.
