Discover Bangkok by longtail boat, give an elephant a scrub in the river in Chiang Mai, sleep in your own floating raft on the River Kwai and island hop to turquoise bays and castaway coves. Ubon was founded on the northern bank of the Mun River by a group of Lao princes fleeing Vientiane in the late 1700s. They applied for King Taksin’s protection, duly granted in 1779 along with the city’s new name, meaning “Royal City of the Lotus”. Modern-day Ubon was a U.S. air base during the Vietnam War and grew rapidly at the time, but little has happened since then. The town of Warin Chamrap, on the south bank of the river, is effectively a suburb of Ubon these days. www.visitubon.com
The sleepy Ubon office of the Tourist Authority of Thailand (264/1 Khuan Thani Road) is worth a visit to pick up useful English maps of the town and nearby provinces. Basic English spoken. Open daily 08:30-16:30.
Temples Wat Nong Bua (off Chanyangkun Rd, past the BKS station Wat Thung Si Muang (Luang Rd Wat Pah Nanachat (International Forest Monastery Wat Nong Pah Pong is the forest monastery of the late venerable Ajahn Chah, one of the most famous meditation masters in Thailand in recent times. About 70 monks live here, and there is a small museum and a stupa (or chedi) with the relics of Ajahn Chah to visit.
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