we depart for Khao Yai, stopping to visit the fruit market in Klang Don, where many kinds of local products, fruits, vegetables on offer.

visit Khao Yai National Park, Thailand's first national park. Opened in 1962 and considered today as one of the most beautiful, Khao Yai is listed as a World Heritage Site because of the variety of its fauna and flora.

departure for the north and the capital of Isan: Nakhon Ratchasima, still called Korat by locals despite its new official name. Before reaching Korat, stop at Dan Kwian pottery village. Continuation to Korat and city tour with stop at the memorial of Thao Suranari (Lady Mo) built for a woman who fought the Laotian invasion in the 19th century

depart for Buriram where you can visit Prasat Phanom Rung, one of the best-preserved Khmer remains in Thailand. Visit the site which is accessed by a large staircase, then a few kilometers away, visit Muang Tham, another Khmer building located near a large artificial lake of time dug to be a water reserve for the community. In the center, two laterite walls, each encompassing four gopuras with superb baluster windows, protect the sacred buildings. You will notice the refined ornamentation of lintels, small columns, and door jambs, in harmony with the style of Baphuon and Khleang. The inner courtyard includes five brick towers and two libraries, while the central prang (Prasat) contains elements symbolizing Mount Kailas, the home of the god Shiva

visit a village of Argentiere: Ban Khwao Sinarin and continuation to the Khmer Sikhoraphum temple. Stop at Ban Sam Kho village. Remained very traditional and completely unknown to tourists, this village deserves a walk to discover a lifestyle unchanged. Silk fabrics are produced in almost all houses (or rather "under" houses built on stilts), probably one of the best places to offer you a fabric of "Pha Mai" (Silk Thai) at a lower cost, from the producer to the consumer

Continue to the beautiful Sikhoraphum temple and visit its 5 towers and its central chedi which is the place of worship for locals

departure for Kamphaeng Yai and visit this little-known Khmer site. Dating from the 11th century it consists of 6 buildings. You will discover sculptures of Hindu deities Shiva and Vishnu on the lintels as well as inscriptions in Khmer. Every year in March, an important celebration of the Khmer community is held there

Depart for Mukdahan, a border town with Savannakhet in Laos where you can walk in its lively and colorful market where sell and exchange products Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, and of course Chinese. Mukdahan has become a staging area for game-loving Thais visiting Savannakhet in Laos, where casinos, banned in Thailand, have been created for them. You can, of course, make new culinary experiences between a rice rat curry (quality meat and expensive contrary to popular belief), eggs of red ants or cobra or monitor curry, not to mention a multitude of fried insects and peppers

departure for the visit of Sakhon Nakhon where you will participate in the ceremony of sacred thread that a monk attaches to your wrist, a sign of merits and omens, the opportunity to make a wish. It is also an animistic practice where, according to the beliefs, the body is made up of 32 souls that can fly away. Also the threads tied around the wrists are a way to prevent diseases by attaching Souls to the body

Continue to visit the traditional pottery and weaving village of Ban Chiang, famous throughout in the country. In 1966, it was here that a Harvard student updated one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. The excavations that followed revealed pottery and bronze tools dating back more than 3,500 years on a site that had been inhabited for at least 2000 years. His discovery revolutionized the knowledge of this period of history by uncovering evidence of mastery of livestock (pigs, chickens and cattle) and rice farming and the use of metal tools. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992. Continue to visit bamboo weaving work at Dong Yen Village and pottery painting at Baan Pulu

morning to visit the Orchids farm. The owner of this farm gave birth to a variety of endemic orchid with a delicate fragrance in 1977: the Udon Sunshine

Continue to Nong Khai, a small border town with Laos. Visit Sala Kaew Ku, a park with sculptures inspired by Buddhism and Hindu deities, some of which are 25 meters high. Visit the picturesque market of Tha Sadet where there are products and crafts of Indochina, trading with Laos