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CHAIYAPHUM |
Map of Chaiyaphum |
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is approximately the centre of Thailand, a hilly province
that is famous for its silk villages. Ban Khwao is renowned
for its production of raw silk, with travellers heading
for the silk farms to watch the whole production process
from feeding the silk worms with mulberry leaves right
through to the dyeing and weaving of thread. |
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| Chaiyaphum
also has some good elephant training schools, with most
graduates now used for trekking journeys into the mountains.
And it has revived its elephant round-up (rivalling Surin)
every January. Phrang Ku, an ancient Khmer shrine housing
a revered Buddha, is popular with residents as a ''healing
station'' |
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Ton National Park centres around scenic waterfalls and
has very unusual forests. While Pa Hin Ngam National Park
is renowned as much for its huge fascinating rock formations
as it is for its pink krachiew flowers that bloom in May
to July. |
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