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Wat Phung Khlong |
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This local museum is located at the side of Highway Number 22,
Moo 4, Tombon Pak Plee, Amphur Pak Waii, Nakorn Nayok Province.
This musem is inside Wat Fang Klong temple which is located
close to Nakorn Nayok – Prachinburi route. It is the temple in
Dhammakai Buddha’s precepts.
The former name was “Wat Him
Klong temple” which is pronounced in Thai-Yuan accent since it
is located at the Tha Daeng canal’s side. The 12 families
gathered and built the temple which was separated from Baan Tha
Daeng community, settled down at the place named Baan Fang Klong
and built the temple by having Phra Ajarn Un and Phra Ajarn Sim
as the construction foremen. Therefore, this newly built temple
was called “Wat Fang Klong temple” which is the same as the
village’s name. Phra Kru Viriyanuyok, the present abbot of this
temple, has developed the temple into the community’s learning
center of religion, art and culture. It is also the location of
Wat Fang Klong local museum, community culture integration
center and, now, it has been developed into the cultural tourism
attraction for people, students and university students to seek
knowledge and especially study Thai-Puan culture.
This local museum is the place of equipments and
utensils collection of Thai-Puans or Thais
who have Chinese
race and live in Yunnan area and moved to settle down in
Thailand 200 years ago.
This museum has gathered cultural
characteristic and lifestyle of this Thai people group as you
can see from the utensils and clothes such as Thai-Puan sarong,
stone mill, ancient coffee brewer barrel, agricultural
equipments and weaving machines.
For those who are
interested, this museum opens from 08.30 – 17.30. |
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Pak Phli |
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Ko Wai |
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14.163918 N |
101.263362 E |
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