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Hotel view after checking in yesterday. First time we stayed at the Oriental Residence and unfortunately didn't stay long as we will hit the road back to Lampang in about 15 minutes. Will have to remember this place on the next trip for a longer stay. Very clean nice room and very quiet. All hardwood floor and tile. ( I hate carpet in hotel rooms)

We have rain
Chanthaburi
28 May 2023

On to That Phanom, which I like much more. It's a small town with a big temple. There are a million pics of Wat Phra That Phanom, it is very much on the Thai tourist trail, they come to respect the fragments of the Buddha's breastbone held in the stupa. This picture is of the remnants of the old stupa nearby, much less visited, it fell down in a storm in 1975. The bone fragments were recovered and moved to the new site, HM the King came to the opening. They then refurbished the old stupa. Legend has it that the bone fragments were brought here shortly after the Buddha passed, at his instruction. Archaeology suggests the site is younger than that, still the old stupa sits on a site that has probably been a temple for over a thousand years:



Every Thursday morning That Phanom has a Laos market. Traders cross the river and the market kicks off about 0500 hours. (I am told. I went after breakfast.) It has a very 'real' feeling of being a market. Small traders trying to sell stuff. Porters hefting sacks of vegetables through the crowd. Everything from fish to handbags. The picture doesn't really do it justice.