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Chiang, a small village about 50 km east if Udon Thani is the single most
significant historical site in Thailand. Archeological discoveries made
in 1970s produced evidence of a Bronze age civilization that flourished
over 5,000 years ago. This predates site in China and Mesopotamia as the
earliest known evidence of an agrarian, bronze-making culture, and suggest
that the Khorat plateau is one of the possible 'cradles of civilization.
One of the excavation pits at ban Chiang has been left open to display
skeletal remains, distinctively patterned pottery and other objects in
situ. There is also a museum which contains some superb artifacts.
629 km from Bangkok, Ubon
Ratchathani introduces the annual Buddhist Rains Retreat in July with
a lovely 'Candle Festival', which takes the form of a colorful pageant
with a procession around town of floats bearing enormous, intricately
fashioned bee-wax candles. Of further interest here is Pha Taem which
is situated in the Khong Chiam district. For, here, prehistoric rock painting
extend for over one and a half km along an imposing cliff face overlooking
the Mekong River.
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province's Phu Kra Dung National Park is a crisply beautiful forested
plateau between 1,000 - 1,350 m where temperatures at night drop to near
freezing point. This is where tropical and temperate climates blend. Also
particularly noteworthy is Phu Luang National Park which is a table-top
mountain noted for its rich variety of cool climate flora. The Kaeng Khut
Khu rapids at Chiang Khan are also worth visiting.
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