provides a service twice a day to Loei
Airport.
Let’s now move onto something more
intriguing. The province of Loei has one
of the more curious mottos out of all
the Thai provinces. It is extravagantly
known in full as “City of the Sea of
Mountains, Coldest Place in Siam, and
Beautiful Flowers of the Three Seasons”.
Let us explore this phrase in depth and
explain its veracity. We begin with the
first segment. Loei is a truly wonderful
paradise of mountainous ranges, of
which three peaks in particular grab the
attention: the Phu Kradueng, the Phu
Reua and the Phu luang all stand tall and
proud above the skyline of the province
and provide a distinctive identity to it.
Let us now look at the next segment.
How many places do you know in
Thailand to reach temperatures below
zero degrees Celsius? Is that even
possible? Well if you didn’t know
any, now you do: Loei’s winters have
often reached the minus two mark
on thermometers, thus rightly so, it is
indeed one of the coldest places of our
otherwise tropical Siamese paradise.
Temperatures are not freezing the year
around however. Far from it, registers
of thirty degrees Celsius are commonly
observed during the summer and early
spring. In that sense, Loei’s climate can
be said to be truly continental.
How about segment three of that
motto? Imparting a fringe to Laos
through the Mekong River, Loei province
is in many ways more like the north of
Thailand than the rest of the Isan region
to which it belongs. It is a place in which
mountain ranges combine with a diverse
array of beautiful flora. Amassing itself
in and around the aforementioned three
mountainous elevations of the region,
the diversity of wonderful blossoms and
trees is truly a magnificent sight. We find
thus a wonderful scenario, above which
clouds set and provide the spectacular
view of which visitors and locals alike
can be fortunate to savour.
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