Phu Phra Bat Historical Park
A wooded hillside in Udon Thani scattered with strange sandstone formations, pillars, overhangs and balanced boulders, around which religious shrines were built. Some of the rock shelters still carry prehistoric paintings, and a trail links them through the forest.
- Where
- Ban Phue, Udon Thani, Thailand
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 17.7333, 102.3583
Get the Phu Phra Bat Historical Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Phu Phra Bat Historical Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Udon Thani volume with your photos and a note.
Near Phu Phra Bat Historical Park
Sala Kaew Ku 48 km
A park of giant concrete figures drawn from Buddhism and Hinduism, close to the Mekong and the Lao border at Nong Khai. It was begun in 1978 by Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat and his followers, who had already made the Buddha Park across the river in Laos, and here the visions grew larger and wilder still.
Erawan Cave 50 km
A cave high in a limestone hill in Nong Bua Lamphu, reached by a long stairway from the road. A large white Buddha sits at the entrance looking out over the rice fields, and the chambers behind run deep into the rock.
Chiang Khan 76 km
A quiet town on the Mekong in northern Loei, with Laos on the far bank. Its long riverside street of old wooden shophouses fills with walkers in the evening, and at dawn the monks come through on their alms round.
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site 108 km
A village in the Udon Thani countryside where digs from 1966 onwards turned up red-painted pottery, bronze made on the spot and more than a hundred burials. The finds have been studied for clues to the farming, diet and health of the people who lived here, and the site has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1992.
Phu Ruea 108 km
A 1,365 metre peak in Loei whose name means boat mountain: from some angles it looks like an upturned hull. It rises in the Phetchabun range north of the highway between Loei town and Phetchabun, and its cool heights draw Thai visitors in the winter months.
Phu Kradueng 114 km
A flat-topped mountain in Loei rising to 1,316 metres, part of the Phetchabun range that divides the North from Isan. The long climb to its plateau is a classic Thai hike, and the top opens out into pine woods, meadows and cliff edges facing the sunrise.
Phu Wiang Dinosaur Museum 118 km
A geological museum in the hills of Khon Kaen province given over mainly to fossils, run by the Department of Mineral Resources. Its grounds cover some 16 hectares in Wiang Kao district, and it has been open to the public since 2009.
Phra Mahathat Kaen Nakhon 156 km
A nine-storey stupa at Wat Nong Waeng in Khon Kaen's old town, 80 metres tall on a square base 50 metres to a side. It was raised for King Bhumibol's Golden Jubilee and the province's 200th year, modelled on the Isan form of Phra That Kham Kaen.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Udon Thani
Questions
Where is Phu Phra Bat Historical Park?
Phu Phra Bat Historical Park is in Ban Phue, Udon Thani, Thailand. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Sala Kaew Ku (48 km), Erawan Cave (50 km), Chiang Khan (76 km).
How do I get the Phu Phra Bat Historical Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Phu Phra Bat Historical Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Udon Thani volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Phu Phra Bat Historical Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Udon Thani volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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