text: [{"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "Aranyaprathet to BangkokAranyaprathet to Nakhon Sawan"}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "Nakhon Pathom to Hua Hin"}, {"text_idx": "#000041", "text": "Nan to BangkokNan to Chiang Mai"}, {"text_idx": "#000042", "text": "Nong Bua Lamphu to Bangkok"}, {"text_idx": "#000046", "text": "Phrae to BangkokPhrae to Chiang Mai"}, {"text_idx": "#000048", "text": "Ranong to BangkokRanong to Phuket"}, {"text_idx": "#000054", "text": "Sukhothai to KalasinSukhothai to Khon Kaen"}, {"text_idx": "#000057", "text": "Trang to BangkokTrang to Phuket"}, {"text_idx": "#000077", "text": "Koh Yao Yai to Langkawi"}, {"text_idx": "#000079", "text": "Pak Bara Pier to Koh Lipe"}, {"text_idx": "#000080", "text": "Pattaya to Hua Hin Ferry"}, {"text_idx": "#000084", "text": "Trat Airport to Koh Kood"}, {"text_idx": "#000089", "text": "Nakhon Si Thammarat to Bangkok"}, {"text_idx": "#000091", "text": "Phitsanulok to BangkokPhitsanulok to Chiang Mai"}, {"text_idx": "#000092", "text": "Prachuap Khiri Khan to Bangkok"}, {"text_idx": "#000094", "text": "Trang to BangkokTrang to Hua Hin"}, {"text_idx": "#000102", "text": "Hua Hin to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)"}, {"text_idx": "#000112", "text": "By bus it takes 13 hours 15 minutes to travel 673 km from Lampang to Sakon Nakhon."}, {"text_idx": "#000117", "text": "Sakon Nakhon is best known for its temples. The two most famous temples in Sakon Nakhon are Wat Phra That Choeng Chum and Wat Pha Suttawas. Wat Phra That Choeng Chum has a 24 metre high chedi which is believed to have been built on top of the footprints of 4 incarnations of the Lord Buddha which makes the site very important to Thai Buddhists. The chedi, which was constructed in the 17th Century, has been built on top of a smaller Khmer chedi dating back to the 10th Century. Wat Phra That Choeng Chum attracts large numbers of visitors who come to worship at the chedi and pray to the Luang Phor Phra Ong Saen (a Buddha statue cast in 1257) which is housed in the shrine hall next to the chedi."}, {"text_idx": "#000119", "text": "The other major temple in Sakon Nakhon is Wat Pha Suttawas which is famous as this where the revered monk Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Thera came to die in 1949. Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Thera was one of the founders of Thailand\u2019s \u2018Forest Tradition\u2019 devotees of which live austere lives meditating in remote locations, particularly forests. Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Thera is believed to have attained enlightenment and is worshipped by many Thai Buddhists in s similar way to a saint in the Christian tradition. The temple has building devoted to Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Thera with a statue and some displays of his meagre possessions to illustrate how he lived a simple life devoted to Buddhism."}]