{"id":1150,"date":"2015-10-29T06:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T06:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2015-10-30T06:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T06:09:52","slug":"sakon-nakhon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Sakon Nakhon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sakon Nakhon is a Buddhist town with five Buddhist stupas. Its history dates back three thousand years. Legend says that Nongharn town, or presently Sakon Nakhon, was built in 11th century when the Khmer ruled this region. When the Khmer lost their power, the town was under the rules of Lanxang or Laotian Kingdom. It was renamed \u201cMuang Chiang Mai Nongharn\u201d. When the town joined Siam, it was renamed again as \u201cSakon Thavapi\u201d. In 1830, during the reign of King Rama III, it was renamed \u201cSakon Nakhon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151025_155137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151025_155137.jpg\" alt=\"20151025_155137\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sakon Nakhon is in the upper Northeast. It is on the Phu Phan mountain range and has many forest temple retreats for meditation. These temples are also where famous monks well known in meditation circles reside.Sakon Nakhon is 647 kilometres from Bangkok<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151025_162118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151025_162118.jpg\" alt=\"20151025_162118\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sakon Nakorn Wax Castle 2015<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/sakon-nakhon-ready-for-its-wax-castle-and-long-boat-race-festival-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sakon Nakorn Wax Castle 2015 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/the-city-of-indigoindigo\/\" target=\"_blank\">The City of Indigo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tourist Information Center<br \/>\nTAT Nakhon Phanom<br \/>\n184\/1 Suntornvijit Road.<br \/>\nTambon Nai Mueang,<br \/>\nAmphoe Mueang,<br \/>\nNakhon Phanom 48000<\/p>\n<p>Tel 0 4251 3490-1<br \/>\nFax 0 4251 3492 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakon Nakhon is a Buddhist town with five Buddhist stupas. Its history dates back three thousand years. Legend says that Nongharn town, or presently Sakon Nakhon, was built in 11th century when the Khmer ruled this region. When the Khmer lost their power, the town was under the rules of Lanxang or Laotian Kingdom. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelthaiculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}