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Yasothon
is famous for its boisterous Rocket Festival every May,
when giant home-made missiles are launched into the air
in a symbolic rain- making gesture. |
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In
the town at Wat Mahathat, Phra That Yasothon is a much-visited
Lao-style chedi, said to be over 1,200 years old. It enshrines
holy relics of Phra Ananda, one of Lord Buddha's chief
disciples. That Kong Khao Noi is an ancient Khmer chedi
with a much revered brick and stucco Buddha that is ritually
bathed every April. |
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The
handicraft village of Ban Si Than is famed for the triangular
pillows used in most Thai households. |
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