Travel Reference
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The Park
( 0 4463 3778;
www.theparknangrong.com
;
Th Praditpana; r 590-1000; )
One of several new,
midrange hotels in Nang Rong, The Park is the lovliest, with all of its fairly priced rooms
around a quiet, lovely garden.It's southeast of the bus station, next to the lake.
HOTEL
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Cabbages & Condoms
( 0 4465 7145; Hwy 24; r 240-1500B; )
The cheapest (shared bathroom) rooms at
this Population & Community Development Association-run resort, set in a garden, are
pretty limp. But move up the price scale (where you get large rooms with stone floors)
and this is a pleasant place to stay. There's a clothing and shoe factory on-site, opened to
bring work normally found in the city to the surrounding villages. It's 6.5km west of
town.
HOTEL
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Phob Suk
(Hwy 24; dishes 40-360B; 9am-9.30pm; )
The picture menu at this well-known restaurant
near the bus station presents the typical mix of Thai, Isan and Chinese, but we recommend
the city's famous
kăh mŏo
(pork-rump roast).
THAI
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Getting There & Around
Nang Rong's
bus station
( 0 4463 1517)
is on the west side of town. Most buses running to
the Phanom Rung Historical Park stop in Nang Rong.
Both P California and Honey Inn hire motorcycles, starting at 250B per day, and the
former also has mountain bikes for 100B per day.
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Phanom Rung Historical Park
The largest and best-restored Khmer monument in Thailand,
Phanom Rung
( 0 4466 6251; ad-
mission 100B, combined ticket with Prasat Muang Tam 150B; 6am-6pm)
has a knock-'em-dead location.
Crowning the summit of a spent volcano (the name is derived from the Khmer words for
'big mountain'), this sanctuary sits 200m above the paddy fields.
The temple was erected as a Hindu monument to Shiva between the 10th and 13th cen-
turies, the bulk of it during the reign of King Suriyavarman II (r AD 1113-50), which was
the prime period of Angkor architecture. The complex faces east, and four times a year the
