Kamphaengphet attractions outside the city

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Wat Chang Rop Wat Chang Rop

This is a big monastery on hill, having a large pagoda located in the center of the courtyard. The pagoda is supported by 68 half-bodied elephant stature (head and forelegs). This monastery has sand stone.

Wat Awat Yai
A monastery with huge construction project, consisting of many pagodas and viharas, is situated on the road to Amphoe Phran Kratai about three kilometers north of Saphan Khom Gate. Its walls are of sand stone and in its courtyard is a large octagonal pagoda. In front of the monastery on the road side, there is a big square pond dug into sand stone floor called "Bo Sam Saen"

Muang Nakhon Chum
It is an ancient town located on the east bank of the Ping River. Its earthen wall 2-3 meters high was built in rectangular shape parallel to the Ping River from the east to the west Situated within the town wall are some old Buddhist monasteries.

Wat Phra Borommathat Chediyaram
This Buddhist monastery is located on the west bank of the Ping River and at the heart of Nakhon Chum Town. Within its compound there is a Burmese style Chedi. Many bronze Buddha images of the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya Periods were found in its temple situated to the south. It has been assumed that an original style of the Chedi is Sukhothai architecture traditionally called Phum Khao Bin. The present pattern is a result of the restoration by a Burmese millionaire one hundred years ago.