#ploy waen

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Chedi and pagoda on the hill above Wat Khao Ploy Waen

30 October 2025

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Wat Khao Ploy Waen, 1903 photo from Danish ship captain Hans Ejler Peter Frandsen

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Fragments of gems at Ploy Waen

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Wat Khao Ploy Waen, Ratanakiri Chedi and pagoda

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Wat Khao Ploy Waen, Ratanakiri Chedi and pagoda

22 March 2025

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At Wat Khao Ploy Waen, walk up the hill and over 600 steps to the Ratanakiri Chedi and pagoda

16 June 2024

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I believe this is the last of the opencast sapphire mines around Ploy Waen. Excavated to a depth of 15-20m the ground has now been reinstated, leveled, and to be planted in fruit trees

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Views from the top of Khao Ploy Waen. Photos shows some areas that were open sapphire mines until 2019 now reinstated and replanted as orchards, durian trees.