Ban Song Yae Christian Church is located in Thai Charoen district, Yasothon. There is a history in 1908 that there were 5 families who fled from different places to live in this area, they fled for the same reason, which was accused being ghouls and they were therefore attacked and drove away.
It is the 4th church, planned for construction in 1936. Villagers gathered wood and built it in 1947. The shape of the church was built in Thai art style, width 16 meters, length 57 meters. It is the largest in Thailand, using 80,000 wooden planks as roofing boards, using 360 columns of different sizes, mostly wooden poles. The pillars in the middle row are the largest and longest with 260 trees, more than 10 meters high from the ground. The floor planks are of red wood and large Takhian wood. The wooden bench can hold over a thousand people.
The church bell has a diameter of almost 2 feet in a tall bell tower built in the style of a bell tower in typical Thai temples. But strange that it is separate from the church and because the wood that has been gathered is a lot Therefore, the remaining wood was used to build Ban Song Yae Pittaya School.
Mr.Luesak, the owner of Kradae Chae Monkey Training Center, has learned how to train monkeys from his father. Every morning he usually leads monkeys to coconut grove to teach them to climbing coconut trees, to select ripe coconuts and pick off coconuts. Besides, you can also stay overnight at Mr. Luesak with reasonable price. In addition, Kradae Chae Monkey Training Center brought male monkey to teach how to collect coconuts which monkeys can collect around 500-1000 coconuts per day.
1. Methods of organizing activities - Guided tours, cooking and eating Vietnamese food, Wearing Ao Yai (Vietnamese costume), and homestay
2. Community’s way of life - safe vegetable growing local cooking sip local tea
3. Tourist participation – visit vegetable plots Vietnamese food, cycling
Tour Program
Taste local tea, collect vegetables, Vietnamese cooking, Wearing Ao Yai, cycling to see the cultural lifestyle of Thai people of Vietnamese descent, and stay in a homestay
Route links to other attractions (with distance/km)
- Freshwater Fish Museum, a distance of 2 km.
- Chaloem Phrakiat Chakri Dynasty Hall, a distance of 2.5 km.
- Landmark, Phaya Si Sattanakharat, a distance of 5 km.
- The 3rd Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, a distance of 15 km.
Community enterprise products in the community
Vegetables are safe from toxins, fruit, dried/fresh tea leaves, hammocks, hemp leaf snacks.
"Suan Lamai" is a large orchard on an area of over 800,000 square meters with a tram service for tourists to explore the orchard and enjoy various kinds of fruit in a buffet such as a Rambutan, Mangosteen, Longan, Grapefruit during fruit season. During the Winter, "Suan Lamai" will opens for visitors to visit a Strawberry farm and colorful Cosmos flowers garden. There's also a sheep farm for animals lover who wants to feed a sheep and take photos with those sheep.
Chanthaburi Agricultural Extension and Development Center (Chantaburi Bee Center) is an agricultural tourist attraction for economic insect farming; breeding of bee species, burrowing bees, stingless bees, crickets and processing of bee products and stingless bees, learning point of sufficiency economy, cultivation of fairy mushrooms and mushrooms in logs, growing vegetables safe from toxins in containers, Condensed Lemon Cuttings. You can travel every day at Chanthaburi. Beekeeping
This trip is very suitable because we only bring a few hundred baht per person, and still can enjoy a vacation that is happy and fun like this. It is a trip near to Saraburi, with a waterfront accommodation at a price of few hundreds Baht; it is named "Yai Eid Riverside Garden". Although the price is cheap like this, the atmosphere is really rich.
The highlight of this place is the emerald river, which is very beautiful because the water is so clear. It's a really beautiful emerald green color where tourists can swim together and enjoy.
Phon Had Village is a sufficiency economy village, an organic vegetables source, organic rice, delicious insects, listening to vegetable lullabies as a source of fanaticism. The only place in Roi Et according to the Philosophy of Sufficient Economy. The village is famous for its delicious insects, excellent craftsmanship. Familiar with pesticide-free vegetables Muan I Lee Bun Bang Fai Tradition, worshipping the great god, the legend of Phraya Had Phraya Thon
Phra That Yasothon or Phra That Anon located in front of the ubosot; it is one of the important old relics in the northeastern region. It has Rectangular chedi with a top similar to Phra That Phanom, and inside the Phra That contains the relics of Phra Anon. The construction was influenced by Laos art that was popularly built during the late Ayutthaya period to the early Rattanakosin period which corresponds to the history of setting up the city and the history of Wat Mahathat
Rai Khun Mon is a mixed agricultural plantation, organic vegetable garden and a factory to process various products such as corn milk, vegetable juice, banana/jackfruit dried. Krayasart coated with vegetable juice, corn Meatballs, corn milk ice cream, healthy homeopathic food and a learning center for Thai wisdom on an area of 150 rai with modern machinery
Tourism program
Learn activities based on various bases.
1. Corn milk production base
2. Corn milk ice cream production base
3. The base for collecting fresh corn from the field
4. Sesame oil extraction base
5. Wood vinegar extraction base and Iwate charcoal furnace
6. The base for making a compress
7. Earth house
Other attractions along the route (with distance/km)
River Kwai Bridg, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, a distance of 25 kilometers
Wat Tham Suea (Tiger Cave Temple), a distance of 30 kilometers
Giant Raintree, a distance of 30 kilometers
Community enterprise products
Corn milk, sesame oil
Vacuum baked bananas
Baan Suan Akira was established as a learning center. This project is due to the royal Initiative of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great with the philosophy of sufficiency economy. Local people can apply the concepts and practices in their living.
The learning resources are as follows;
1. Learning Center due to the royal Initiative project, Pai District, Mae Hong Son
2. New Theory Agriculture Learning Center, Pai District, Mae Hong Son
3. Sufficiency Economy Learning Center, Pai District, Mae Hong Son
4. Learning Center for Enhancement of Agricultural Product Production in
farming, mixed farming, livestock, and fishery
5. Prototype plot for organic plant production of Mae Hong Son
6. Agro-tourism according to The OTOP Nawat Withi Tourism Community Project
7. Land Development Technology Transfer Center of Mae Hi Sub-district
8. Khok Nong Na Learning Center Model, Baan Suan Akira