Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Night Market
( 4-10pm)
That Phanom's night market is much bigger than you'd expect for a town this
size. It has a good variety of food, but few places to sit.
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There are several regular banks in the centre of town. For weekends and evenings, there's
a
Bangkok Bank
( 10.30am-7pm)
north of town in the Tesco-Lotus shopping centre, which
also has an AEON ATM.
Getting There & Around
From That Phanom's new
bus station
, inconveniently located west of town (a túk-túk to the
river should cost 30B), there are services to Ubon Ratchathani (bus/minivan 185/150B,
4½/4 hours, 14 daily) via Mukdahan (47B/50B, one hour), Udon Thani (168B to 200B,
four hours, six daily) via Sakon Nakhon (55B to 70B, 1¼ hours) and Nakhon Phanom
(40B to 50B, one hour, seven daily). For Nakhon Phanom you can also take one of the
sŏrng·tăa·ou
(40B, 90 minutes, frequent until 4pm) that park north of the
tâht
. There are a
few morning buses to Bangkok (435B to 871B, 10 to 11 hours), but most depart between
5pm and 7pm. One Bangkok-bound company still departs from the old bus station in
town.
Poo Gam Phra
( 08 1431 5096; Soi 8)
gift shop rents bikes (100B to 200B per day) and mo-
torcycles (300B per day) and can arrange day-long kayak trips down the Mekong to
Kaeng Kaboa.
