Phu Ruea
A 1,365 metre peak in Loei whose name means boat mountain: from some angles it looks like an upturned hull. It rises in the Phetchabun range north of the highway between Loei town and Phetchabun, and its cool heights draw Thai visitors in the winter months.
- Where
- Loei, Thailand
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 17.4879, 101.3713
Get the Phu Ruea stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Phu Ruea. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Loei volume with your photos and a note.
Near Phu Ruea
Chiang Khan 55 km
A quiet town on the Mekong in northern Loei, with Laos on the far bank. Its long riverside street of old wooden shophouses fills with walkers in the evening, and at dawn the monks come through on their alms round.
Phu Thap Boek 71 km
A 1,794 metre mountain in Phetchabun's Lom Kao district, near the border with Loei. Hmong farmers grow cabbages on its steep slopes, and on cool mornings the fields look out over a sea of cloud.
Erawan Cave 74 km
A cave high in a limestone hill in Nong Bua Lamphu, reached by a long stairway from the road. A large white Buddha sits at the entrance looking out over the rice fields, and the chambers behind run deep into the rock.
Phu Kradueng 77 km
A flat-topped mountain in Loei rising to 1,316 metres, part of the Phetchabun range that divides the North from Isan. The long climb to its plateau is a classic Thai hike, and the top opens out into pine woods, meadows and cliff edges facing the sunrise.
Khao Kho 105 km
A 1,143 metre mountain in the western Phetchabun range, in the district that shares its name. Its cool, rolling heights are dotted with viewpoints and resorts, and at dawn the valleys below often fill with mist.
Phu Phra Bat Historical Park 108 km
A wooded hillside in Udon Thani scattered with strange sandstone formations, pillars, overhangs and balanced boulders, around which religious shrines were built. Some of the rock shelters still carry prehistoric paintings, and a trail links them through the forest.
Phu Wiang Dinosaur Museum 131 km
A geological museum in the hills of Khon Kaen province given over mainly to fossils, run by the Department of Mineral Resources. Its grounds cover some 16 hectares in Wiang Kao district, and it has been open to the public since 2009.
Sala Kaew Ku 156 km
A park of giant concrete figures drawn from Buddhism and Hinduism, close to the Mekong and the Lao border at Nong Khai. It was begun in 1978 by Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat and his followers, who had already made the Buddha Park across the river in Laos, and here the visions grew larger and wilder still.
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Questions
Where is Phu Ruea?
Phu Ruea is in Loei, Thailand. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Chiang Khan (55 km), Phu Thap Boek (71 km), Erawan Cave (74 km).
How do I get the Phu Ruea stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Phu Ruea and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Loei volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Phu Ruea before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Loei volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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