All you need to know to visit Nang Rong

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Northeastern Thailand
410 km from Bangkok
Province of Buriram
Thai prononciation : Nang Long

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Practical guide to go and visit Nang Rong

Nang Rong city is about 50 km south from Buriram, tourists mostly come here to visit Phanom Rung temple, a magnificent Khmer temple perched on an extinct volcano. 28 kilometers away from the temple, Nang Rong is the last real town before Phanom Rung Historical Park. The most visited attrctions here are Phanom Rung temple with its long paved walkway above the big staircase leading to the temple and Prasat Hin Muang Tam, a beautifully restored small khmer temple with four basins (8 km from Phanom Rung).
The city itself has no tourist attraction. Besides the night market, there is not much entertainment in the evening. If you leave in the early morning, it is possible to visit the temples and come back by bus (2h30 per trip) in the same day from Nakhon Ratchasima. But it is better to take your time and sleep in Nang Rong. Especially because before 10:30, there are fewer visitors in Phanom Rung.

Warning: if you don't come with your own ransportation, probably prefer Buriram to Nang Rong as a starting point to visit the khmer temples. Since Honey Inn closed, it is almost impossible for a foreign tourist to rent a scooter in Nang Rong. Finding a driver with a car (around 1,000 THB a day), or even a motorcycle taxi, will probably be a bit complicated also with the language barrier being stronger here than in Buriram.

Hotel in Nang Ron

Hotel in Nang Rong

Practical information about Nang Rong

There is only a few hotels and guesthouses in Nang Rong city but in the vicinity, there are other accommodation often in a more bucolic setting. To explore the temples, it is highly recommende to be transported because there Honey Inn which offered scooter to rent to foreigners closed. Phanom Rung and Muang Tam are very easy to find even without a map, the roads are well signposted.