Sukhothai
Sukhothai Thani is an unassuming community better known for being home to the Sukhothai Historical Park, a UNESCO site that houses the vestiges of the thirteenth-century Sukhothai Kingdom. Encircled by old city walls, the recreation area contains 193 ruins altogether a blend of 26 temples, a regal royal residence, and numerous stupas and instances of stucco sculpture.
The most noteworthy sanctuary on the grounds is Wat Mahathat, which highlights nine large stupas (the super one holding relics of the Buddha), a pillared structure, and two nine-meter-tall standing Buddha images.
Chiang Rai
Sitting right on the line with Myanmar and Laos, the mountainous city of Chiang Rai is renowned for its journeying in Lam Nam Kok Public Park, with trails prompting staggering waterfalls like the 70-meter-tall Khun Kon waterfall, rich timberland, and ridge clan villages.
Likewise, with most Thai urban communities, sanctuaries are a colossal fascination in Chiang Rai, with Wat Rong Khun (or White Sanctuary) coming up at the first spot on the list. Wat Rong Khun is in fact as of now not a temple yet an exclusive compound overhauled and revamped by Chalermchai Kositpipat, quite possibly of Thailand’s most popular contemporary visual craftsmen.
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