Sight-seeing at Ubul Ratana Dam in Khon Kaen
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The Wat Phra Bat Phu Phan Kham in Khon Kaen province, Thailand |
By building the Ubul Ratana Dam in 1966 the Ubul Ratana Lake was created and nowadays it is surrounded by a beautiful country side with small mountains and of course a National Park (Phu Kao & Phu Phan Kham National Park) with a beautiful viewpoint from the Wat Phra Bat Phu Phan Kham.
We followed the road all the way to the village "Ubolrattana", you are leaving the lake-side and take a short steep road up and take a left turn and follow the road until you are at a T-section where you take a left in direction of "Ubolrat Dam". But just 500m before the entrance gate to "Ubolrat dam" you take a left to "Wat Phra Bat Phu Phan Kham". Just follow the road passing a school and a bit further up the road passing a temple. Just 200m after that temple you are standing on the foot of a small hill where a stairway of 1049 steps goes up to a huge 14meters high white Buddha overlooking the valley of Khon Kaen.
Well we did not walk but drove 50m further where a road leads left to the top where is parking for cars. On top of the hill under the huge Buddha is a temple and from the hill you have beautiful view over the lake. After our visit to the temple & Buddha statue we did ride back again to the lake-side to have lunch at one of the restaurant right at the lake-side, just before "Bang Sean 2" . And on the east-side of the lake is "Pattaya 2". See Ubol_Ratana_Dam and WatPhraPhuPhanKham