Earlier this year I visited a wat in Khon Khaen Province and a recent post on My Thai Friend reminded me of it. I was on a bit of a tour around Isan and this was just about the last on the list of places I had planned to visit. To a certain extent I was a little disappointed because I had read that I would see hundreds of orchids there. It's true that I did, but what I had not expected was that there would be just the one species. But still, this was not an orchid farm but a forest monastery which had conserved the species that was already growing there.
This helpful notice was just outside the monastery:
This notice was less helpful to me because I am illiterate but I love this version of the Thai script:
And here are two of the orchids:
Beautiful, aren't they? But we don't need photos of all 4,000 of them to get the idea.
Over at My Thai Friend (here) (then search: Dan Singkhon) you can read about wild orchids for sale at a border market in Phrachuap Kiri Khan Province.
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