Only 4-5 hours to the North from Bangkok, Phitsanulok divide Thailand’s Central and Northern regions. It is a great stopover place once you’re travelling to the North and it also has its own tourist attractions that everyone would love to visit.

Also known as Song Kwae City (Song means two and Kwae means river), the city has two important rivers run through. The place is full of natural treasures like mountains, rivers or even waterfalls that make this place more worthwhile.

Apart from the natural attractions like national parks, Phitsanulok is also very well known of its noble history and culture from historical evidences like stones, ancient tools, old temples etc. It is the birthplace of King Narasuan the Great, the legendary King who declared Ayutthaya independence from Myanmar in 1584. You can check out the greatest movies made about him in Asian movies section.

What else can you do in Phitsanulok apart from visiting all those places in the city? I recommend you try trekking. The province is very popular for camping and trekking destination because it consists of several national parks that feature different landscape and flora and fauna. This will definitely impress all the nature lovers just like you. And if you’re interested, you might need to hurry because this is the best time to see all the wildflowers blooming in many beautiful colors in Thung Salaeng Loung National Park.

You can also try rafting. You don’t get to try this a lot elsewhere you know that. It’s getting to raining season in Thailand and the water is getting swifter. This will be a very big challenge for the newbie.

So if this caught in your eyes, you can find out more about it like how to get there and stuff at www.tourismthailand.org. You won’t regret of going there!