Thread: LOEI Province

Originally Posted by Katana

The Phu reah resort just outside of Loei on the way to Phu rea is a very nice place to stay with good rooms good food and good 'thai' music.

Is that the one about 2 kms from the town, or the one about another km further on? If the former it does look nice, did you stay there and what was the room cost?

On to the park itself and this is where all the trails start from





The rocks a really spectacular





The colours and formation remarkable, notice the gap in the left middle of the rocks.





None of this had been landscaped when I first came here, they have made a good job of it








Amazing

Nam Dtok Peyang Din (Until the ground waterfall) - Probably a poor translation, but that's as close as I could get.

^ Thanks Marmite

We headed off to follow one of the paths and another stunning rock formation





and this nice little rest area





Opportunities for photos everywhere





The made up paths dwindle away at times, but the trail still leads on and up





and we arrive to here. From here a steep series of steps went up the side of the rocks, and it was here that the rain started. Luckily there was another purpose built rest area close by where we were able to shelter.





It poured down for the next 3/4 hour, so decided to return to the motor and continue this walk during the dry season in January. A last look out from the rest area

Nice update Props, thos rocks look amazing. Is that the same G/f that you started with, she looks like a nice Girl?

Wonderful thread propagator, I have a step neice at the unversity there and have visited occasionally. Found a couple of nurseries selling beautiful roses. Boring no keep it up
regards

Very nice thread Props, i live very close to the natural spring in photo's 69 plus which is called Nam Phut.
Further on from there (30kms) is another place called Chulabhorn Dam that is also worth a visit. Spectacular views of the National Park, a challenging and well kept 9 hole golf course also with great views and of course a dam which is 70 metres high and 700 metres long. Nice restaurant and overnight accommodation if required but bring some additional clothes as it can get a wee bit chilly overnight in the mountains.
I have also visited Loei province on a couple of occasions recently as i have an Israeli friend who resides at Phu Kradueng. Very nice area as we travelled through to Chiang Khan returning to the Military Golf course north of Loei to play 18 holes. Also recently stayed at the Kings Hotel in Loei which was good value at around 500 baht a night.
Keep up the good work sir.

Originally Posted by kiwiman12

Wonderful thread propagator

Thank you

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Very nice thread Props, i live very close to the natural spring in photo's 69 plus which is called Nam Phut.

Thanks for that, will have to go and have a look at that dam on my next visit.

Nice little place to stay about 10 kms outside of Loei heading towards Phu Kradueng. Has only been open for about 3 years and as I was visiting friends in Wang Saphung thought I would give it a try.

They have 3 types of rooms, standard, superior and the VIP. I chose to stay in the VIP, very large room, clean and airy, comfortable setee and chairs





TV, Fridge, air con and hot shower


Bed was comfortable and extra blanket if needed





The toilet shot, shower to the left




Couple of photos of the outside








Cost 450 baht per night. They dont have a restuarant there but will cook food to order and bring to your room. I will use it again

It looks beautiful up there. Did a Google for Loei airport and it seems that there is one which was serviced by Nok Air but it is no longer operational.
Anyone have an update on this or would I perhaps have to use Udon Thani?

^ Loei airport closed for operational flights from May 2009. I don't think that there are any plans in the pipeline to open it.


A little update here re the Phu Rua National Park. We visited it as the girl had not been there and wanted to see it. I of course only wanted to go to Phu Rua to get some plants from the nurseries.

On entry into the park you can drive to within a kilometre of the top and have to park your car there. They now have a shuttle baht bus to the top, and were very disgusted when the g/f only gave em 10 baht for the trip, seems they were used to getting 50 to 100 baht from the visitors.

It was a bit hazy looking back over the mountains towards Loei





And right at the very top

We stayed at the above resort on the recommendation of a friend of the g/f. Wish I hadn't listened

The resort is very close to the entrance to The Phu Rua National Park (about 500 metres).

There are extensive grounds to this resort and appeared to be kept well





This is looking up to the main building and reception area. There is a main foyer there, a conference hall and restaurant and a shop selling souveniers.





This one at the main entrance





This was the view from our chalet looking across to a few of the bigger chalets





A view of another chalet beside ours again bigger and more expensive.





We had intended to stay 2 nights and have a drive around the following day, but after the first night checked out in the morning and returned to the 99 resort at Wang Saphung (reviewed above at post No 85)

The chalet was very small, barely enough room to swing a cat. TV, small table top fridge, No a/c but a fan. The bathroom was a joke, not much more than 4ft x 3ft and when having a shower had to virtually sit on the loo at the same time. Water was hot though.

The charge for this room was 950 baht incl breakfast (thai style buffet) and was not good. This was the smallest chalet and the bigger ones were (from memory) up to 1300 baht.

OK my fault for not looking at the room first and felt to lazy to go back to the main road into Phu Rua where I had seen what appeared to be some decent places, and probably far cheaper. Probably tried to justify the price of the room because of their close proximity to the National Park.

Suffice to say I will not use the place again nor would I recommend it. When we returned to Khon Kaen the g/f told her friend what she thought of the place, and it was not nice.

Really a good thread, thanks for all the photos !
I will go to Loei next time, or maybe next time again. So much to discover out there.
Maybe you could note gps coordinates for some of the small restaurants, hotels, which would make it easier to find again ? Would be a big help for the geographically challenged like me
Bob

That could easily be achieved by using a GPS Route Logger.
I recently bought one of these for just 600 baht:

Ventus Design: G.730 VENTUS GPS-logger | Ventus Technologies

Great little gadget.

I have a house now in Wang Saphung, The Loei airport is now open again with flights from Don Muang on Nok Air. They have recently opened a Tescos next to the airport, maybe this is the reason it has reopened.

Great thread Prop. I really like Loei and Nan country.