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Take the Floating Train, View Tung Dok Tantawan Amphoe Pattana Nikom, Lopburi. When the rain has gone, here come the blows of colder wind, most tourists plan to go up north for jungle treks to view fields of winter land flowers that compete in blooming. In fact, there is another sight just 153 kilometers away from Bangkok.
Around November to January each year on both sides of the road number 3017 from the city of Lopburi towards Amphoe Pattana Nikom for a distance of about 40 kilometers, a view of the fields of bright yellow flowers in full bloom all over there for tourists to turn onto to admire and take pictures with the sunflower fields as closest as they can.
Let’s have a change to listen to the sound of railroad tracks, feel the cold breeze through the train’s windows and experience the beauty of fields of yellow sunflowers in full bloom that keep your company on both sides along the way.
Lopburi in the old days was a minor city under Ayutthaya. Once King Rama Thibodee the First had established the Ayutthaya, his son Prince Rameuan was sent to rule Lopburi in 1350. In the reign of King Narai the Great, Ayutthaya was considered to near to the sea easily for an attack by foreign fleets and then Lopburi was founded the second capital.
Lopburi possesses many more historical sights when you may stop by before skirting Highway no. 3017 towards Pattana Nikom to view the beauty of the fields of sunflowers that fully bloom in November – January each year. A drive to visit Pasak Cholasith Dam nearby is also possible.
Tourists may choose to drive or take a special route train to view the beauty of Lopburi’s attractions by Highway number 3017 (Lopburi to Koke Toom) towards Amphoe Pattana Nikom with Tung Dok Tantawan, the fields of sunflowers that magnificently bloom on both sides in November to January each year. About 43 kilometers from the city through the sunflower fields, you may stop by at Khoen Pasak Cholasith, a clay-cored earthen dam with the third largest capacity after Khoen Sri Nararin and Khoen Bhumipol, and enjoy the sights as well as activities inside such as taking a rickshaw to view the dam ridge, the floating train, the antiques as old as 100 years in the Lumnam Pasak Musuem, or taking a horse carriage to view the dam’s landscape, go fishing and feeding the fishes.
Then drive to Amphoe Baan Mee, about 60 kilometers away from Khoen Pasak, to see the process in making Mudmee clothes, the Lopburi’s famous products. Before buying some as souvenirs. If time allows, go back to the bridge at the entrance to Khoen Pasak and wait to see the beauty of the sun setting down the lake to end the one-day trip completely. |
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Top 10 Thai Attractive Flower Fields
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Doi Mae U-Kor’s Tung Dok Buatong.
Mae Hongson possesses Thailand’s largest Tung Dok Buatong. Regarded as valueless weeds in the old days, Tung Dok Buatong today is Mae Hongson’s most famous attraction. |
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Phu Soidao National Park.
It is in the area of Nam Pard National Forest Reserve covering Uttaradit’s Amphoe Baan Koke, Nuaymun, Nam Pard and Pitsanulok’s Amphoe Bor Park, Chat Trakan, with a total area of about 200.18 square kilometers. |
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Tung None Son and the Savannah of Thailand.
It is realized that to get to see the beauty of Tung None Son is not a piece of cake. The 16 kilometers long trail on foot may seem so far, but easy to walk not too steep. |
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Phu Pah Toeb.
In the Isan plateau that connects the Mekhong River exists the unique landscape. These sandstone mountains, though look dry, possess a tourism charm no other regions do that is the sandstone sculpture in as many different shapes as the viewer’s imagination may lead to. |
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Flower Fields, Lotus Ponds at Phu Sa Dokbua.
These flower fields on the stone ground may not be of much difference, as they are made up of the same kind of wild flowers found in other places. But the uniqueness is the small ponds with lotus flowers of new varieties on the mountaintop.
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Phu Samui at Ubon Ratchathani.
Similar in name to the famous beautiful island in Surat Thani’s sea, but this Samui is a hill located north of Pah Taem National Park. On the top of Phu Samui and its surroundings lie outstanding attractions, including viewpoints and flower fields. |
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Pah Chana Dai – Pa Dong Natham.
Dazzled by flower fields, view the sunrise before anybody else at Pah Chana Dai – Pa Dong Natham at Amphoe Khong Chiam, Ubon Ratchathani. Well known is Pah Chana Dai as the spot to view sunrise before anybody else in Siam. |
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Tung Dok Bua Sawan Pa Hin Ngam National Park.
Feel the chilly fog, admire Tung Dok Bua Sawan at Pa Hin Ngam National, Amphoe Thep Sathit, Chaiyaphum. As the rain is starting to fall along the wind’s blow, many tourists can’t help thinking of the days when the beauty of Chaiyaphum’s Pa Hin Ngam National Park revealed to their eyes. |
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Tung Dok Krachiao – Zai Thong National Park.
Zai Thong National Park is Chaiyaphum’s another well known national park with highlands pilling up in alternation with forest hills creating an all season fine scenery. But in the rainy season, apart from the magnificent fresh and green forest, the Krachiao flowers both in purplish pink and white will bloom all over the field. |
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Tung Dok Tantawan.
Take the Floating Train, View Tung Dok Tantawan Amphoe Pattana Nikom, Lopburi. When the rain has gone, here come the blows of colder wind, most tourists plan to go up north for jungle treks to view fields of winter land flowers that compete in blooming. |
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